Mayfield

Mayfield Fund is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1969 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Mumbai, India. It specializes in early-stage to growth-capital investments in technology companies across sectors including enterprise software, data, communications and wireless, semiconductors, consumer internet, health tech, energy tech, and IT-enabled services. The firm typically targets companies with strong growth potential, supports co-investment networks and lead or co-lead roles in rounds, and often participates in follow-on financing. It pursues global opportunities, with a focus on California (San Francisco Bay Area) and cross-border investments in Europe, India, and China, as well as substantial operations in India and China. Investments range from seed to growth, including debt in select situations, and it emphasizes collaboration with founders from inception to scale iconic enterprise, AI-first, and health-tech ventures. The firm avoids public markets and leverages its global network and experience to help portfolio companies scale.

Rajeev Batra

Partner

Navin Chaddha

Managing Partner

Tim Chang

Partner

Rishi Garg

Venture Partner

Vikram Godse

Partner and Managing Director, India

Past deals in Storage Services

Sohan Lal Commodity Management

Venture Round in 2021
Sohan Lal Commodity Management Pvt Ltd is a comprehensive agri-logistics company based in New Delhi, India. Founded in 1971, it specializes in agricultural commodity warehouse management and procurement services, offering a diverse range of solutions including commodity warehousing, collateral management, and agricultural financing. The company is also involved in risk mitigation and provides analytical services, along with a Commodity Market Intelligence division that conducts crop surveys and monitors crop cycles. Additionally, Sohan Lal offers quality testing, fumigation, pest control, and disinfestation services for stored grains. Its operational scope includes trade and export services, commodity testing, and skill-building initiatives. The company serves a wide array of clients, including farmers, processors, traders, importers, exporters, commodity exchanges, and government entities, and has expanded its operations beyond India to Myanmar.

Roost

Seed Round in 2019
Roost is a versatile business that operates as a marketplace connecting individuals in need of storage solutions with those offering available space in their homes. By aligning people who have items to store, such as boxes and furniture, with neighbors renting out extra space in their garages or basements, Roost disrupts traditional self-storage and parking industries. The company focuses on creating a community-oriented platform that benefits users financially while promoting efficiency and reducing environmental impact. With a growing presence, Roost aims to enhance local connections and provide seamless solutions for short-term storage and parking needs.

Portworx

Series C in 2019
Portworx Inc., founded in 2014 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, specializes in cloud-native storage solutions for modern enterprises. The company offers Portworx PWX, a software-defined infrastructure that provides scalable block storage to containerized applications. Its solution enables stateful persistence, fluid scheduling across machines and clouds, rapid deployment, and scaling of enterprise applications. Portworx also provides a Kubernetes storage platform for running, scaling, backing up, and recovering mission-critical applications. As of September 30, 2020, Portworx operates as a subsidiary of Pure Storage, Inc., serving clients across multiple clouds and on-premises environments.

Vexata

Funding Round in 2017
Vexata, Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, focused on developing and manufacturing real-time enterprise storage systems tailored for businesses. Founded in 2013 and currently a subsidiary of StorCentric, Inc., Vexata offers an innovative data storage infrastructure platform designed to meet the demands of modern, data-driven applications. The company's active data fabric integrates distributed data management software and advanced networking principles, allowing organizations to enhance their data infrastructure without the need for application rewrites or complex adjustments. Vexata's solutions facilitate improved decision-making and operational efficiency by supporting a range of database and analytics platforms, including traditional systems like Oracle and SQL Server, as well as emerging NoSQL and cognitive computing technologies.

Portworx

Series B in 2017
Portworx Inc., founded in 2014 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, specializes in cloud-native storage solutions for modern enterprises. The company offers Portworx PWX, a software-defined infrastructure that provides scalable block storage to containerized applications. Its solution enables stateful persistence, fluid scheduling across machines and clouds, rapid deployment, and scaling of enterprise applications. Portworx also provides a Kubernetes storage platform for running, scaling, backing up, and recovering mission-critical applications. As of September 30, 2020, Portworx operates as a subsidiary of Pure Storage, Inc., serving clients across multiple clouds and on-premises environments.

Bigstep

Seed Round in 2016
Bigstep is a cloud provider established in 2013 and headquartered in London, with infrastructure located in the U.K. and Germany. Founded by Lucas Roh, the company specializes in offering professional analytics solutions through its Full Metal Cloud, specifically designed for big data environments. Bigstep's platform focuses on delivering high performance and low latency, providing businesses of all sizes with scalable storage, high-speed networking, and hardware upgrades. By leveraging advanced technologies and automation, Bigstep enables clients to optimize their operations for both cost and performance efficiency, making it easier for them to implement production-ready big data solutions quickly and effectively.

Portworx

Series A in 2015
Portworx Inc., founded in 2014 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, specializes in cloud-native storage solutions for modern enterprises. The company offers Portworx PWX, a software-defined infrastructure that provides scalable block storage to containerized applications. Its solution enables stateful persistence, fluid scheduling across machines and clouds, rapid deployment, and scaling of enterprise applications. Portworx also provides a Kubernetes storage platform for running, scaling, backing up, and recovering mission-critical applications. As of September 30, 2020, Portworx operates as a subsidiary of Pure Storage, Inc., serving clients across multiple clouds and on-premises environments.

CloudVelox

Series C in 2015
CloudVelox is a technology company specializing in hybrid cloud solutions. Founded by experts in operating systems, distributed systems, virtualization, cloud, networking, and storage technologies, CloudVelox has developed software that allows both new and existing Linux and Windows multi-tier applications to run in the cloud without any modifications. This capability enables enterprises to seamlessly extend their data centers into the cloud, ensuring that applications can access necessary services residing back in the enterprise data center. The company's platform aims to automate the migration of private data centers to public clouds, thereby reducing business risk and enhancing IT productivity and resilience.

SwiftStack

Series B in 2014
SwiftStack Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a multi-cloud data storage and management platform designed for data-driven applications and workflows. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, SwiftStack offers a software-defined storage solution that allows enterprises to manage multiple object storage clusters with capabilities such as configuration, authentication, and capacity management. This platform enables organizations to seamlessly move workloads between public and private cloud environments, thereby ensuring universal access to data. SwiftStack's technology supports a variety of use cases, including content delivery, active archiving, collaboration, and analytics, catering to industries like life sciences, media and entertainment, and artificial intelligence. Its innovative approach allows enterprises to start small and scale efficiently within and across data centers, providing a flexible and secure storage solution that is under the control of internal IT teams.

Formation Data Systems

Series A in 2014
Formation Data Systems, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing a converged data platform for enterprise storage solutions. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Fremont, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and Boulder, the company offers a hyper-scale software-defined storage platform known as FormationOne. This platform integrates block, file, and object storage across various media, including flash, disk, and cloud, while also delivering features such as data reduplication, disaster recovery, and data tiering. Formation Data Systems aims to support IT organizations in transforming their data centers by offering API-connected storage services suitable for both enterprise IT and SaaS applications. The platform is designed for businesses that desire the agility and cost-effectiveness of public cloud storage while ensuring the security and management control typical of private data centers.

CloudVelox

Series B in 2013
CloudVelox is a technology company specializing in hybrid cloud solutions. Founded by experts in operating systems, distributed systems, virtualization, cloud, networking, and storage technologies, CloudVelox has developed software that allows both new and existing Linux and Windows multi-tier applications to run in the cloud without any modifications. This capability enables enterprises to seamlessly extend their data centers into the cloud, ensuring that applications can access necessary services residing back in the enterprise data center. The company's platform aims to automate the migration of private data centers to public clouds, thereby reducing business risk and enhancing IT productivity and resilience.

SwiftStack

Series A in 2013
SwiftStack Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a multi-cloud data storage and management platform designed for data-driven applications and workflows. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, SwiftStack offers a software-defined storage solution that allows enterprises to manage multiple object storage clusters with capabilities such as configuration, authentication, and capacity management. This platform enables organizations to seamlessly move workloads between public and private cloud environments, thereby ensuring universal access to data. SwiftStack's technology supports a variety of use cases, including content delivery, active archiving, collaboration, and analytics, catering to industries like life sciences, media and entertainment, and artificial intelligence. Its innovative approach allows enterprises to start small and scale efficiently within and across data centers, providing a flexible and secure storage solution that is under the control of internal IT teams.

CloudVelox

Series A in 2012
CloudVelox is a technology company specializing in hybrid cloud solutions. Founded by experts in operating systems, distributed systems, virtualization, cloud, networking, and storage technologies, CloudVelox has developed software that allows both new and existing Linux and Windows multi-tier applications to run in the cloud without any modifications. This capability enables enterprises to seamlessly extend their data centers into the cloud, ensuring that applications can access necessary services residing back in the enterprise data center. The company's platform aims to automate the migration of private data centers to public clouds, thereby reducing business risk and enhancing IT productivity and resilience.

StorSimple

Series C in 2011
StorSimple is a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in hybrid cloud storage solutions tailored for enterprise applications such as SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files, and Virtual Machines. The company's innovative storage appliance integrates cloud capabilities with existing on-premises infrastructures, enabling organizations to optimize storage performance while simplifying data protection. By leveraging this technology, businesses can achieve significant cost savings, potentially reducing storage expenses by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage methods. StorSimple's focus on application-specific optimization positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of cloud storage solutions for enterprises.

StorSimple

Series B in 2010
StorSimple is a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in hybrid cloud storage solutions tailored for enterprise applications such as SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files, and Virtual Machines. The company's innovative storage appliance integrates cloud capabilities with existing on-premises infrastructures, enabling organizations to optimize storage performance while simplifying data protection. By leveraging this technology, businesses can achieve significant cost savings, potentially reducing storage expenses by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage methods. StorSimple's focus on application-specific optimization positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of cloud storage solutions for enterprises.

Mimosa Systems

Debt Financing in 2009
Mimosa Systems, Inc., established in 2003 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializes in content archiving solutions. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated software suite designed to manage unstructured information such as emails, files, and instant messages. This solution enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management for enterprises worldwide, with offices in multiple countries including Germany, the UK, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

ONStor

Series F in 2008
ONStor is a storage technology company that develops NAS and SAN gateway platforms and storage gateway products to consolidate, manage, and scale storage resources across multi-vendor environments. Its offerings enable file storage across heterogeneous SAN infrastructures, provide data backup and load balancing, and support scalable storage access for enterprise applications. The company focuses on helping customers simplify storage, networking, and computing decisions by delivering gateway solutions that connect various storage systems and streamline data management.

Mimosa Systems

Series D in 2008
Mimosa Systems, Inc., established in 2003 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializes in content archiving solutions. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated software suite designed to manage unstructured information such as emails, files, and instant messages. This solution enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management for enterprises worldwide, with offices in multiple countries including Germany, the UK, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

ONStor

Series E in 2007
ONStor is a storage technology company that develops NAS and SAN gateway platforms and storage gateway products to consolidate, manage, and scale storage resources across multi-vendor environments. Its offerings enable file storage across heterogeneous SAN infrastructures, provide data backup and load balancing, and support scalable storage access for enterprise applications. The company focuses on helping customers simplify storage, networking, and computing decisions by delivering gateway solutions that connect various storage systems and streamline data management.

Mimosa Systems

Series C in 2007
Mimosa Systems, Inc., established in 2003 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializes in content archiving solutions. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated software suite designed to manage unstructured information such as emails, files, and instant messages. This solution enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management for enterprises worldwide, with offices in multiple countries including Germany, the UK, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

Mendocino Software

Venture Round in 2007
Mendocino Software, Inc. went out of business. Mendocino Software, Inc. develops and markets enterprise-class application data availability and access solutions. Its products include InfiniView, which offers data capture and view presentation for use with various application environments, including Oracle, Sybase, DB2 UDB, SQL Server, messaging, and other databases and enterprise file systems on supported operating system platforms. The company’s products help in data protection and recovery, as well as in the administration and maintenance of enterprise applications. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Fremont, California.

Mendocino Software

Series B in 2005
Mendocino Software, Inc. went out of business. Mendocino Software, Inc. develops and markets enterprise-class application data availability and access solutions. Its products include InfiniView, which offers data capture and view presentation for use with various application environments, including Oracle, Sybase, DB2 UDB, SQL Server, messaging, and other databases and enterprise file systems on supported operating system platforms. The company’s products help in data protection and recovery, as well as in the administration and maintenance of enterprise applications. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Fremont, California.

ONStor

Series D in 2005
ONStor is a storage technology company that develops NAS and SAN gateway platforms and storage gateway products to consolidate, manage, and scale storage resources across multi-vendor environments. Its offerings enable file storage across heterogeneous SAN infrastructures, provide data backup and load balancing, and support scalable storage access for enterprise applications. The company focuses on helping customers simplify storage, networking, and computing decisions by delivering gateway solutions that connect various storage systems and streamline data management.

OuterBay Technologies

Series C in 2005
OuterBay Technologies, Inc. is a provider of information lifecycle management solutions focused on applications and databases. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, the company specializes in helping organizations monitor, forecast, and manage data growth within enterprise environments. Its offerings include application resource monitoring, data growth analysis and policy management, and database archiving for long-term data retention, governance, and regulatory compliance. Additionally, OuterBay provides enterprise database archiving and database subsetting services, along with tools for effective data growth monitoring. The company also maintains offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.

Cemaphore Systems

Series B in 2004
Cemaphore Systems, Inc. provides unprecedented email continuity, disaster recovery and content management solutions for Microsoft Exchange, including the content on mobile devices. Via its Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, Cemaphore also offers content management for users of email service providers.

Mendocino Software

Series A in 2004
Mendocino Software, Inc. went out of business. Mendocino Software, Inc. develops and markets enterprise-class application data availability and access solutions. Its products include InfiniView, which offers data capture and view presentation for use with various application environments, including Oracle, Sybase, DB2 UDB, SQL Server, messaging, and other databases and enterprise file systems on supported operating system platforms. The company’s products help in data protection and recovery, as well as in the administration and maintenance of enterprise applications. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Fremont, California.

3Par

Series D in 2004
3PAR Inc. is a global provider of utility storage systems designed for mid-sized to large enterprises, financial services firms, cloud computing service providers, consumer-oriented Internet/Web 2.0 companies, and government entities. The company specializes in creating infrastructures that facilitate the delivery of cloud-based services, tailored to meet the demands of both internal operations and external service providers. Its enterprise-class storage systems are characterized by a clustered design that supports comprehensive multi-tenancy and incorporates features such as self-configuration, self-optimization, self-monitoring, self-healing, and scalability. 3PAR's solutions include an integrated hardware platform alongside an operating system and a suite of software applications, positioning the company as a key player in the data storage and information management sector.

OuterBay Technologies

Series B in 2003
OuterBay Technologies, Inc. is a provider of information lifecycle management solutions focused on applications and databases. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, the company specializes in helping organizations monitor, forecast, and manage data growth within enterprise environments. Its offerings include application resource monitoring, data growth analysis and policy management, and database archiving for long-term data retention, governance, and regulatory compliance. Additionally, OuterBay provides enterprise database archiving and database subsetting services, along with tools for effective data growth monitoring. The company also maintains offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.

Cemaphore Systems

Series A in 2003
Cemaphore Systems, Inc. provides unprecedented email continuity, disaster recovery and content management solutions for Microsoft Exchange, including the content on mobile devices. Via its Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, Cemaphore also offers content management for users of email service providers.

ONStor

Series B in 2002
ONStor is a storage technology company that develops NAS and SAN gateway platforms and storage gateway products to consolidate, manage, and scale storage resources across multi-vendor environments. Its offerings enable file storage across heterogeneous SAN infrastructures, provide data backup and load balancing, and support scalable storage access for enterprise applications. The company focuses on helping customers simplify storage, networking, and computing decisions by delivering gateway solutions that connect various storage systems and streamline data management.

3Par

Series C in 2001
3PAR Inc. is a global provider of utility storage systems designed for mid-sized to large enterprises, financial services firms, cloud computing service providers, consumer-oriented Internet/Web 2.0 companies, and government entities. The company specializes in creating infrastructures that facilitate the delivery of cloud-based services, tailored to meet the demands of both internal operations and external service providers. Its enterprise-class storage systems are characterized by a clustered design that supports comprehensive multi-tenancy and incorporates features such as self-configuration, self-optimization, self-monitoring, self-healing, and scalability. 3PAR's solutions include an integrated hardware platform alongside an operating system and a suite of software applications, positioning the company as a key player in the data storage and information management sector.

Lightbit

Venture Round in 2000
Lightbits Labs, Inc. specializes in developing innovative data storage solutions designed for enterprise private clouds and service providers. Founded in 2015 and based in San Jose, California, with additional offices in Israel and New York, the company focuses on delivering high-performance block storage that is scalable and cost-effective. Lightbits is known for its Cloud Data Platform and the proprietary LightOS Software Defined Storage, which integrates seamlessly with existing datacenter infrastructure. The company's products leverage the NVMe over TCP protocol to enhance performance comparable to local flash storage, catering to cloud-native applications in various environments, including bare metal, virtualized, and containerized systems. By providing a comprehensive data storage platform, Lightbits enables organizations to improve agility and cost efficiency while effectively scaling their storage infrastructure.

Intira

Series B in 2000
Intira Corporation is an IT infrastructure and e-business platform that specializes in providing data hosting services for internet applications. The company focuses on implementing, managing, and operating the necessary infrastructure for application development. Based in the United States, Intira enables its clients to establish robust servers, storage solutions, security measures, and data networks to support their digital operations.

3Par

Series B in 2000
3PAR Inc. is a global provider of utility storage systems designed for mid-sized to large enterprises, financial services firms, cloud computing service providers, consumer-oriented Internet/Web 2.0 companies, and government entities. The company specializes in creating infrastructures that facilitate the delivery of cloud-based services, tailored to meet the demands of both internal operations and external service providers. Its enterprise-class storage systems are characterized by a clustered design that supports comprehensive multi-tenancy and incorporates features such as self-configuration, self-optimization, self-monitoring, self-healing, and scalability. 3PAR's solutions include an integrated hardware platform alongside an operating system and a suite of software applications, positioning the company as a key player in the data storage and information management sector.

3Par

Series A in 1999
3PAR Inc. is a global provider of utility storage systems designed for mid-sized to large enterprises, financial services firms, cloud computing service providers, consumer-oriented Internet/Web 2.0 companies, and government entities. The company specializes in creating infrastructures that facilitate the delivery of cloud-based services, tailored to meet the demands of both internal operations and external service providers. Its enterprise-class storage systems are characterized by a clustered design that supports comprehensive multi-tenancy and incorporates features such as self-configuration, self-optimization, self-monitoring, self-healing, and scalability. 3PAR's solutions include an integrated hardware platform alongside an operating system and a suite of software applications, positioning the company as a key player in the data storage and information management sector.

Citrix

Pre Seed Round in 1989
Citrix Systems, Inc. delivers a comprehensive range of workspace, networking, and professional services globally. The company specializes in workspace solutions such as Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix Content Collaboration for secure file sharing and storage, and Citrix Endpoint Management for device management. Its Workspace Intelligence feature enhances user workflows and automates tasks through low-code tooling. In addition to workspace offerings, Citrix provides networking products like Citrix ADC for application delivery and load balancing, and Citrix SD-WAN for secure connectivity. The company also offers consulting, hardware maintenance, and training services, catering to various sectors including healthcare, finance, technology, and government. Citrix markets its products through a network of resellers, distributors, and service providers, ensuring that critical systems remain accessible and secure across different devices and platforms. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Citrix was previously known as Citrus Systems, Inc. before rebranding in 2009.

SanDisk

Series B in 1989
Founded in 1988, SanDisk is a multinational corporation specializing in data storage solutions. It designs, develops, manufactures, and markets products such as removable cards for consumer devices, embedded products for various applications, solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices, enterprise SSD solutions, digital media players, wireless flash drive products, and memory wafers. SanDisk sells its products globally through direct sales channels and distributors to original equipment manufacturers, system integrators, resellers, and retailers.

LSI Logic

Venture Round in 1981
LSI is a company that specializes in the design of software and semiconductors, focusing on enhancing storage and networking capabilities in data centers, mobile networks, and client computing environments. As a subsidiary of Avago Technologies, LSI contributes to a broad array of markets, including wireless communications and wired infrastructure. Additionally, LSI manages a venture capital fund based in San Jose, California, which invests in emerging sectors within the United States, particularly targeting areas such as software, communication, networking, and technology, media, and telecommunications. Through its diverse offerings, LSI plays a significant role in developing advanced technologies that support modern digital infrastructures.
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