Patrick Salyer
Partner at Mayfield
Patrick Salyer
Partner at Mayfield
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
As a Partner at Mayfield, Patrick invests in the enterprise sector, focusing on middleware and API businesses. He believes people matter most, and his investment philosophy starts with building trusted relationships with founders. He helps entrepreneurs by coaching on the CEO growth journey, company building, and go to market strategy. Over the last 50+ years, Mayfield has invested in more than 520 companies, resulting in 115 IPOs and 200+mergers and acquisitions. We are currently investing Mayfield XVI which is focused on early-stage venture investments in the United States.
Mayfield is an early-stage VC firm investing in enterprise, deeptech, and human and planetary health companies.
Board Member, Series A
2019
Founded by Assaf Resnick and Elik Eisenberg, BigPanda helps businesses prevent and resolve IT outages with Event Correlation and Automation.
BigPanda offers a platform that helps IT Ops, NOC, and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents faster and more easily.
Raised $311,000,000.00 from Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and UBS.
Board Member, Series A
2022
Founded by Venkat Thiruvengadam, Duplocloud is a DevOps-as-a-Service for cloud security and compliance.
DevOps-as-a-Service. No-code and low-code infrastructure automation for cloud security and compliance.
Raised $49,500,000.00 from Mayfield Fund, Westbridge Capital and StepStone Group.
Board Member, Series A
2024
Founded by Arjun Pillai and Anoop Matthew, DocketAI is the AI teammate for sales engineering.
Docket is an artificial intelligence platform that helps virtual sales engineers to build knowledge graphs using big language models.
Raised $20,350,000.00 from Foundation Capital and Mayfield Fund.
Board Member, Series A
2022
Founded by Kush Kella and Ahmed Sharif, Vartana is a unified B2B enterprise sales closing and financing platform, helping companies close deals faster and improve cash flow.
Vartana is a B2B payments platform that helps businesses reach their potential by purchasing software and versatile payment options.
Raised $89,000,000.00 from Audacious Ventures, Flex Capital, Mayfield Fund and Activant Capital.
Board Member, Seed
2021
Founded by Dor Shany and Rooly Eliezerov, who previously were part of the founding team at Gigya, OwnID is building a distributed customer identity platform
OwnID helps enterprises empower consumers to register, login, and checkout with biometrics - FaceID & TouchID - all without a password.
Raised $6,200,000.00 from Mayfield Fund and GTMfund.
Board Member, Series A
2021
Founded by Peter Frank, Ben Halpern, and Jess Lee, Forem offers open source software empowering creators to build communities.
Forem is open source software for building modern and independent communities.
Raised $12,450,000.00 from Bossanova Investimentos.
Board Member, Series A (Acquired by Socure)
2020
Founded by Eric Levine and Steve Kirkham who previously led the Trust & Safety team at Airbnb, Berbix is an API for Instant Identity Verification.
Berbix is an automated identity verification solution that helps businesses accelerate growth and stay compliant.
Raised $11,620,000.00 from AirAngels, Initialized Capital, Mayfield Fund, Dan Rumennik, Fika Ventures and Y Combinator.
Board Member, Seed
2017
Founded by Mayank Bawa, Amit Sinha, and Milind Joshi, Workspan is the #1 co sell partner platform.
WorkSpan is the #1 ecosystem management network that empowers companies to turbocharge and scale their co-sell revenue growth.
Raised $66,000,000.00 from Insight Partners, Mayfield Fund, Milliways Ventures and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.
Board Observer (IPO)
2019 - 2021
Led by Matt Cain, Couchbase is the leading enterprise-class open source NoSQL database.
Couchbase is a NoSQL cloud database for business-critical applications.
Raised $251,000,000.00 from Adams Street Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, Glynn Capital Management, GPI Capital, Accel, Mayfield Fund and Sorenson Capital.