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Vijay B Reddy

Investor @ Mayfield AI start Fund | Seed Investor, AI-First Companies

Saratoga, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $15,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $7,800,000.00

Skills

Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital
Angel Investing
Start-up Ventures
Strategy
Start-ups
Competitive Analysis
New Business Development
Deal Sourcing
Deal Execution
Wireless
Go-to-market Strategy
Due Diligence
Wearables
Big Data Analytics
Internet of Things
Product Development
Semiconductors
Program Management
Cellular Communications

Work Experience

  • Investor

    2023

    $250 million Mayfield AI Start, our first seed fund, out of which we will invest in AI-first founders starting at Day Zero

  • Board Member

    2023

    UPWARD is a global networking organization accelerating the advancement of executive women through the implementation of member and corporate programming to support diversity and inclusion in the workplace.UPWARD is a 501(c) 3 organization.

2021 - 2023

  • Seed and Inception stage Investor in AI-First companies

    2021 - 2023

    Seed and Inception stage investor - AICrete (AI for concrete) - Vori (Operating System for Groceries) - Cynch.io (Co-Pilot for accounting) - Wherobots (AI for Geospatial Data)

Backing product builders

2021 - 2023

  • Angel Investments

    2021 - 2023

    Modular AI, Together AI, Genmo, Inara AI, Redcoat

2014 - 2021

  • Investor

    2014 - 2021

    Vijay Reddy led investments in Artificial Intelligence platforms and applications. IPO - Joby Aviation (eVTOL) NYSE - Aeye (Lidar) NASDAQ Other Acquisitions - Babblelabs - AI for Audio (Acquired Cisco) - Mighty AI - AI Annotation (Acquired Uber) - Paperspace - MLops platform (Acquired DigitalOcean) - Alien Vault - (Acquired AT&T) Board Director and Observer - Sambanova.ai (GenAI h/w and s/w platform) - Datarobot (AI MLops platform) - Lilt (Machine Translation) - Landing.ai (Computer Vision) - Hypersonix.ai (AI Revops platform) - Kepler (Next gen processes) - Opaque Systems (Confidential computing) - Avaamo (Conversational AI) - Matroid (AI for computer Vision) - CSM (3D gen platform) Associate - Accelerated Leadership Program

2016 - 2018

  • Kauffman Fellows Program Class 21

    2016 - 2018

    2 yr VC fellowship

2006 - 2012

  • BD & PM

    2010 - 2012

  • R&D Staff, Sr Staff, Principal Engineer

    2006 - 2010