Vijay Reddy

Investor @ Mayfield AI start Fund | Seed Investor, AI-First Companies

📍 San Jose, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 25 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Member
2023
UPWARD—Uniting Professional Women Accelerating Relationships & Development—is dedicated to creating a collaborative forum for executive women. It’s a place for sharing ideas, learning, and growing careers. UPWARD is focused on building trusted professional relationships to help professional women further their career and professional development. At UPWARD, women will find the connections to help them realize their professional potential and find the best career opportunities. To join UPWARD, visit: www.upwardwomen.org
Investor
Jan 2020
Hypersonix AI performs complex analysis of competitors, pricing, promotions, inventory, customer behavior and campaign performance, demands and plans and automates critical merchandising and marketing content and workflows to help retailers drive better and faster results, to grow profits. With GenAI insights and automation from Hypersonix, your teams can make pricing, promotion, inventory, operations, and competitive decisions 1000X faster.
Investor
Jan 2020
LILT is the leading AI solution for enterprise translation. Our stack of Contextual AI, Connector APIs, and Human Adaptive feedback enable global organizations to adopt a true AI translation strategy, focusing on business outcomes instead of outputs. We bring human-powered, technology-assisted translations to global enterprises. We give organizations everything they need to scale their translation programs, go-to-market faster than ever, and improve the global customer experience. Speaking of – with Lilt, innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva are using AI-powered technology to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale. Lilt is based in San Francisco with global offices in Berlin, Dublin, Indianapolis, Washington, D.C., London, and Argentina, and are backed by Intel Capital, Sequoia, Redpoint, Zetta, and XSeed.
Investor
May 2019
As of October 1, 2020, Cisco Systems acquired BabbleLabs. Find out more about the application of our technologies at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/conferencing/webex-meetings/index.html
Investor
May 2019
Mesmer, the leader in Application Experience Management (AXM), is radically changing the way developers work. Mesmer’s AI-powered bots evaluate the experience of your mobile app by acting like real users. Software development teams trust our bots to surface experience bugs and flag accessibility (ADA, 508) violations while building. And, then monitor the app’s experience once it's released. This means crazy fast releases, wieldy apps, and much happier teams. Mesmer is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and funded by Intel Capital and True Ventures.
Investor
Mar 2019
Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI Capacity At SambaNova, were empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential. Our full-stack infrastructure, from chips to models, enables lightning-fast performance, low power consumption, and high-efficiency computing. Our Mission To give every developer, enterprise, government and data center absolute sovereignty over their own data, models and AI infrastructure – to future-proof the AI workloads that will power and scale tomorrow. Our Technology We give our customers the optionality to experience SambaNova through the cloud or on-premise. Samba Cloud delivers the fastest inferences on the largest open source models like Llama 4 and DeepSeek. Developers can get started building in minutes with our OpenAI compatible APIs. All customers start on the developer tier and when they need more capacity can scale into our enterprise tier. SambaStack is our on-premise offering which includes the system, the platform, and foundation models. These components combine into a powerful technology stack that delivers unparalleled performance, ease of use, accuracy, data privacy, and the ability to power every use case across the worlds largest organizations. SambaManaged is a modular and ready-to-deploy AI cloud designed to deliver unmatched efficiency for data centers and cloud service providers. This solution allows organizations to quickly deploy advanced AI inference services—without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or specialized expertise—in as little as 90 days. At the heart of SambaNova innovation is the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Purpose built for AI workloads, the RDU takes advantage of a dataflow architecture and a three-tiered memory design. The three tiers of memory enable the platform to run hundreds of models on a single node and to switch between them in microseconds. In 2023, SambaNova released its 4th generation RDU chip, the SN40L.
Investor, Board Observer
Oct 2018
DataRobot is the Value-Driven AI company, empowering organizations to accelerate AI from idea to impact. With over a decade at the forefront of AI innovation, we know what it takes to make a real difference – to your bottom line, to your business vision, and to the world around us. Our open, end-to-end AI lifecycle platform allows your organization to quickly build, securely operate, and confidently govern your entire AI landscape from a single, unified experience. Organizations across industries and geographies trust DataRobot to help solve their biggest challenges with AI, leveraging generative and predictive capabilities today while providing the flexibility to adapt to the innovations of tomorrow.
Investor, Board Observer
Aug 2018
Paperspace, now part of DigitalOcean, is a high-performance cloud computing and ML development platform for building, training and deploying machine learning models. Tens of thousands of individuals, startups, and enterprises use Paperspace to iterate faster and collaborate on intelligent, real-time prediction engines. To learn more about Paperspace, please visit paperspace.com or follow us on Twitter twitter.com/hellopaperspace Mission Our mission is to make cloud computing more accessible through radical simplicity, community-driven technical resources, and straightforward pricing.
Investor
Jun 2018
LandingAI provides a cutting-edge software platform that enables computer vision easy for a wide range of applications across all industries.
Investor
Mar 2018
Avaamo is an advanced multimodal generative AI platform empowering global enterprises to automate and deliver outstanding self-service experiences. Avaamo supports self-service interactions across HR, IT service desks, and customer service for leading global companies. Facilitating over 2 billion interactions annually in 114 languages, Avaamo seamlessly integrates with hundreds of common enterprise applications. Avaamo is founded by enterprise veterans from TIBCO, SAP, Siebel and Apple. Visit avaamo.ai to witness how Avaamo is shaping the future of generative AI-enabled conversational enterprises. Join us at the forefront of innovation
Investor
Oct 2017
FogHorn Systems, Inc and Johnson Controls are now one team. This page is now inactive. We invite you to join us @Johnson Controls for the latest updates and insights on how we are transforming the environments where people like, work, learn and play.
Investor
Jun 2017
Matroid makes computer vision simple by providing an easy-to-use, intuitive Studio for creating and deploying Detectors (computer vision models) to search video for actions, objects, and events with no additional programming required. Matroid can monitor any live stream or search recorded video, providing real-time notifications when events of interest have been detected. Matroid reduces operating costs associated with manually searching through video footage for an object or a specific person, and increases efficiency, safety, and regulatory compliance. Join us for an exciting career at the forefront of artificial intelligence, apply at matroid.com/careers. Send us an email at solutions@matroid.com or call (224) MATROID to learn more.
Investor
2017
Join the Alien Nation! Were on a mission to provide organizations throughout the universe with highly intelligent security that is affordable and simple to use. We founded AlienVault to help organizations of all shapes and sizes achieve world-class security without the headaches and huge expense of other solutions. And we are passionate about our mission! Interested in joining our Alien Nation? Were a peace-loving bunch of extraterrestrials interested in nothing less than changing the world of security to be attainable to organizations. Besides having the opportunity to work for an award-winning company, offering an award-winning product, youll have a chance to work with some of the brightest minds in the security industry. Join the revolution today!
Investor
2017
Joby is a California-based company building quiet, all-electric aircraft to connect people like never before. Quiet as a conversation and with the ability to take off and land vertically, the Joby aircraft will change the way we move while reducing the acoustic and climate footprint of flight.
Investor
2017
Join the Alien Nation! Were on a mission to provide organizations throughout the universe with highly intelligent security that is affordable and simple to use. We founded AlienVault to help organizations of all shapes and sizes achieve world-class security without the headaches and huge expense of other solutions. And we are passionate about our mission! Interested in joining our Alien Nation? Were a peace-loving bunch of extraterrestrials interested in nothing less than changing the world of security to be attainable to organizations. Besides having the opportunity to work for an award-winning company, offering an award-winning product, youll have a chance to work with some of the brightest minds in the security industry. Join the revolution today!
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2023
Investor
Jul 2023
For more than 56 years, we’ve partnered with founders from their first idea through the long arc of building iconic companies. Our track record includes 125+ IPOs and 225+ acquisitions, reflecting our belief that great companies are built by people first. Across multiple market cycles, our team brings deep investing and operating experience to support founders with conviction, long-term capital, and hands-on partnership. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Mayfield backs founders building the future of AI. People First. From Inception. Learn more at mayfield.com.
Board Member
2023
UPWARD—Uniting Professional Women Accelerating Relationships & Development—is dedicated to creating a collaborative forum for executive women. It’s a place for sharing ideas, learning, and growing careers. UPWARD is focused on building trusted professional relationships to help professional women further their career and professional development. At UPWARD, women will find the connections to help them realize their professional potential and find the best career opportunities. To join UPWARD, visit: www.upwardwomen.org
2021
Partner
Aug 2021
We are a Silicon Valley venture capital firm purpose-built to help startup teams win in frontier technology and services. With $335 million of capital from a world-class investor base, Clear provides early seed capital, connections, and company-building insights and guidance. We work with bold, exceptional startup teams to grow their ideas into market-leading companies. Founded by veteran company builders and venture investors, our investments span industries covering artificial intelligence, performant IT infrastructure, enterprise software, semiconductors, information security, and more. The Clear investment team has funded over 70 companies, 90% as the first investors, and has had 54 exits valued at a $85 billion market cap.
2020
Investor
Jan 2020
Hypersonix AI performs complex analysis of competitors, pricing, promotions, inventory, customer behavior and campaign performance, demands and plans and automates critical merchandising and marketing content and workflows to help retailers drive better and faster results, to grow profits. With GenAI insights and automation from Hypersonix, your teams can make pricing, promotion, inventory, operations, and competitive decisions 1000X faster.
Investor
Jan 2020
LILT is the leading AI solution for enterprise translation. Our stack of Contextual AI, Connector APIs, and Human Adaptive feedback enable global organizations to adopt a true AI translation strategy, focusing on business outcomes instead of outputs. We bring human-powered, technology-assisted translations to global enterprises. We give organizations everything they need to scale their translation programs, go-to-market faster than ever, and improve the global customer experience. Speaking of – with Lilt, innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva are using AI-powered technology to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale. Lilt is based in San Francisco with global offices in Berlin, Dublin, Indianapolis, Washington, D.C., London, and Argentina, and are backed by Intel Capital, Sequoia, Redpoint, Zetta, and XSeed.
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