Navin Chaddha
Rank: 11
Company: Mayfield Fund
Designation: Managing director
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This electrical engineer turned VC has significant entrepreneurial, venture and corporate experience in the software, communications, and consumer sectors as well as a successful track record of investing in India since the late 1990s. He holds over 35 patents, has been honoured with the distinguished IIT Alumni Award and is a charter member of TiE. He has made 25 investments in the past of which nine have had IPOs and six have been acquired.
He is an avid collector of Hindi movies and has seen his favourite film, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, at least 20 times.
Investments include
Online widget, content and advertisement distributor Gigya
Online consumer service firm Consim Info (earlier known as BharatMatrimony)
Information management firm Mimosa Systems
India-based VC Seedfund
Telecom equipment network supplier Tejas Networks
Wireless-broadband company WiChorus
Advertising analytics firm WideOrbit
Earlier investments
Internet content and application delivery corporation Akamai
Networking software LVL7 Systems, acquired by Broadcom
File storage management solutions provider NeoPath Networks, acquired by Cisco Systems
Price management and optimisation software provider Vendavo
BPO services provider Allsec
Financial services organisation IL&FS Investsmart
Fashion brand Provogue
Sugar and biofuels manufacturer Shree Renuka Sugars
Media website indya.com, acquired by News Corp
Travel portal MakeMyTrip.com
Software development company Persistent Systems
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