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Patrick Salyer

Partner at Mayfield

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Patrick Salyer is currently a Partner at Mayfield Fund, specializing in AI and Enterprise sectors, with a strong background in strategic partnerships and corporate development. Previously, he served as the CEO of Gigya and has notable achievements in leading successful startups and making strategic investments in companies such as Vartana and Berbix.

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.

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