Mayfield Event

Please join us for a short evening with Mayfield Fund and a few of our portfolio companies, where we’ll spend the first half on insights from a venture capital firm, providing a high-level look at the current venture capital market, key investment sectors, and overall trends for innovation + background on what it’s like to work at a startup.

Additionally, all participants will have the opportunity to receive a pair of Mayfield joggers as part of our exit survey during the event.

Afterwards, we'll break out for an unstructured networking and dinner reception where participating students will have the opportunity to meet and chat with Balbix (https://www.balbix.com/), DevRev (https://devrev.ai/), and HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/) who are all actively hiring for full-time positions and internships.

Agenda:

5:00-5:15: Introductions & Insights from Mayfield Fund

Mayfield Investment Landscape – Insights on the venture capital market and startup ecosystem - is now a good time to work at a startup?

5:15-5:35: Portfolio Introductions - A short background on our featured companies: Balbix (https://www.balbix.com/), DevRev (https://devrev.ai/), and HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/). Company leaders will highlight their companies - what they are building, who they are hiring for, and what a day in the life looks like

5:35-6:00pm: Unstructured Networking & Dinner To-Go

Cordoned off areas for students to chat with each company
Food & drink
Opportunity to pick up some Mayfield joggers a part of our exit/interest survey

Mayfield is a venture capital firm with a people-first philosophy and $2.5 billion under management. Mayfield invests primarily in early-stage consumer, enterprise and engineering biology companies. Since its founding 50 years ago, the firm has invested in more than 500 companies, resulting in 118 IPOs and more than 200 acquisitions. Some notable investments in recent years include CloudSimple, Elastica, Grove Collaborative, HashiCorp, Lyft, Mammoth Biosciences, Marketo, Moat, Outreach, Poshmark, ServiceMax and SolarCity. For more information, go to https://www.mayfield.com or follow @MayfieldFund.

Balbix provides an AI-powered system for cybersecurity posture visibility and

transformation.

The Balbix system automatically discovers and analyzes the attack surface of an enterprise to predict where and how breaches are likely to happen and provides a realtime scorecard of cybersecurity protections all the way from the device/network level to the board level. The use of AI allows Balbix to combine capabilities of dozens of security tools. Balbix also implements prioritization and gamification of actions to drive cyber-risk reduction. By using Balbix, CISOs and CIOs can transform their organization’s cybersecurity posture, reducing cyber risk by 95% or more, while making security teams 10 times more efficient.

DevRev is a business software company that brings developers and customers together in the era of product-led growth. The company is building an API-first dev-centric CRM that leverages data, design, and machine intelligence to empower developers to build, support, and grow their business. In times of anemic NPS and high customer churn, DevRev strives to create the world's most customer-centric companies led by happy developers. DevRev, is working with early adopters in making the product generally available in 2022. The startup launches with $50 million in seed funding and a highly experienced leadership team headed by Dheeraj Pandey, Nutanix co-founder and former CEO and current board member at Adobe.

HashiCorp is the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software. The HashiCorp software suite enables organizations to adopt consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. HashiCorp’s open source tools Vagrant™, Packer™, Terraform®, Vault™, Boundary, Consul®, Nomad™, and Waypoint™ are downloaded 100 million times per year and are broadly adopted by the Global 2000. Enterprise and managed service versions of these products enhance the open source tools with features that promote collaboration, operations, governance, and multi-data center functionality. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, though 85 percent of HashiCorp employees work remotely, strategically distributed around the globe. HashiCorp is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Franklin Templeton, Geodesic Capital, GGV Capital, IVP, Mayfield, Redpoint Ventures, T. Rowe Price funds and accounts, and True Ventures.

For more information, visit https://www.hashicorp.com or follow HashiCorp on Twitter

@HashiCorp.

Mayfield & Portfolio Participants