Ursheet Parikh
Partner at Mayfield Fund
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2013 - Current
Mayfield is an early-stage VC firm investing in enterprise, deeptech, and human and planetary health companies.
Board of Directors, Seed and Series A Co-lead
2023
Open source platform for building Gen AI agents with natural language programming.
Board of Directors, Series A Co-lead
2024
Gen AI accelerated small molecule therapeutic platform
Board of Directors, Series A lead
2023
Founded by Allwyn Sequeira, Debasish Basak, Serge Maskalik and Sachin Thakkar - Highway 9 Networks has pioneered Enterprise Mobile Cloud for Distributed AI.
Highway 9 Networks provides a mobile cloud for the AI-driven enterprise.
Raised $25,000,000.00 from Detroit Venture Partners, General Catalyst and Mayfield Fund.
Board of Directors, Series B Lead
2014
With Kelly Ahuja as CEO and founded by Kumar Mehta & Apurva Mehta, Versa provides industry's best SASE solution with integrated SD-WAN.
Versa is a networking and cybersecurity firm that secures and simplifies modern networks for enterprises, teleworkers, and end-users.
Raised $316,250,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank.
Board of Directors, Series Seed Investor, Series A Lead
2018
Founded by Trevor Martin, Janice Chen, Lucas Harrington and Jennifer Doudna, Mammoth Biosciences is the leading next generation CRISPR platform company.
Mammoth Biosciences develops novel CRISPR applications for disease detection, research, agriculture, biodefense, and more.
Raised $264,545,000.00 from Bradley Horowitz, Plum Alley, Decheng Capital, Senator Investment Group, Redmile Group, Sixth Street, Foresite Capital, NFX, Tachyon Ventures and Mayfield Fund.
Board of Directors, Series Seed Lead
2021
Founded my Kaixiang Lin and Jason Koeller, Chemix uses the power of Generative AI to develop high performance, sustainable batteries optimized for different types of EVs.
Chemix is using its AI-based MIX platform to develop breakthrough EV batteries.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Urban Innovation Fund, Global Brain Corporation, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Mayfield Fund, Porsche Ventures, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Ibex Investors and BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture fund.
Board Member
2023
Founded by Gaurav Banga, Balbix is a pioneer in AI Powered Cyber Risk and Exposure Management.
Balbix enables organizations to transform their cybersecurity posture and quantifiably reduce their breach risk.
Raised $101,600,000.00 from Alter Venture Partners, Redline Capital, Mubadala Capital Ventures, MVP Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Third Point Ventures, Singtel Innov8, JC2 Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners and Franklin Park.
Board of Directors, Series A Co-Lead
2016
Founded by CEO Mudit Garg and Ian Christopher, Qventus is the category defining company for AI in Hospitals. Qventus provides AI Teammates for Nursing and Operations.
Qventus focuses on optimizing decisions in hospitals in real time to reduce costs, improve quality, and experience.
Raised $98,000,000.00 from ThedaCare.
Board of Directors, Series A Lead
2020
Founded by Steve Quake, Maneesh Jain and Mike Snyder, Mirvie is on a mission to improve the health of mom's and babies using advances in RNA genomics and machine learning for early detection and prevention of pregnancy complications.
Mirvie is a biotech company that creates precise, actionable, and non-invasive tests for maternal-fetal health.
Raised $70,400,000.00 from Google Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Foresite Capital, Decheng Capital, BlackRock, Synetro Group, Khosla Ventures, Allyson Felix and General Catalyst.
Board of Directors, Series A Co-Lead
2016
Founding by Chetan Conikee and with Stuart McLure as CEO, Qwiet.AI imakes it easy to find and fix security code bugs with Generative AI
Qwiet is an IT firm that developes an AI -powered AppSec platform.
Raised $58,300,000.00 from Blackstone Innovations Investments and SYN Ventures.