Navin Chaddha

Who is Navin Chaddha?

Navin Chaddha is a proven serial entrepreneur, corporate executive and venture investor. Navin was named on the Forbes Midas List as a top 100 dealmaker in 2007. He invests in the software, enterprise infrastructure, networking systems, communications, Internet infrastructure and semiconductor sectors in the U.S. Navin leads Mayfield’s investments in India. His current Mayfield investments include Mimosa Systems, Seedfund, Tejas Networks and WiChorus.

Navin has made 25 investments in the past of which 9 have had IPOs and 6 have been acquired. Some of his past investments include LVL7 Systems (acquired by Broadcom), NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), ReaMetrix, Still Secure, Test Quest, and Vendavo in the U.S. and GCI Solutions, Indya.com (acquired by News Corp), Makemytrip, and Persistent Systems in India. His notable investments that had an IPO include Allsec, IL Investsmart, Provogue and Shree Renuka Sugars in India and Akamai, Northpoint Communications, Qwest Communications and Rhythms NetConnections in the U.S.

Navin was founder and CTO of VXtreme, a streaming media software company that was acquired by Microsoft and became Windows Media. He served in various management roles at Microsoft after that. Navin was also the co-founder of iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ IPO) and CEO of Rivio (acquired by CPA2Biz). His venture investing experience includes Managing Director at Gabriel Venture Partners and Venture Partner at Mobius Venture Capital.

Navin holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University (received the Stanford and IBM Graduate Fellowships) and a B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi (received the Director’s Medal for being first in his class) and was honored with the prestigious distinguished IIT Alumni Award in 2006. Navin is a Charter Member of TiE and AAMA; serves on the Board of TiE, and is a Global Leader of Tomorrow Member of the World Economic Forum. He holds over 35 patents and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by several publications including Aspatore Books, Business 2.0, Forbes, Fortune, Upside and The Wall Street Journal.