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Patrick Salyer

Partner at Mayfield (AI & Enterprise); Previous CEO at Gigya

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $15,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $7,800,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2019

    As a Partner at Mayfield, Patrick invests in the AI and enterprise sectors, focusing on middleware, applications, and agents. He believes people matter most, and his investment philosophy starts with building trusted relationships with founders. He helps entrepreneurs by coaching on the CEO growth journey, company building, and go to market strategy. Over the last 50+ years, Mayfield has invested in more than 520 companies, resulting in 115 IPOs and 200+mergers and acquisitions. We are currently investing Mayfield XVI which is focused on early-stage venture investments in the United States.

2019

  • Board Member, Series A

    2019

    Founded by Assaf Resnick and Elik Eisenberg, BigPanda helps businesses automate L1 operations with its Agentic IT Operations Platform.

  • Board Member, Series A

    2022

    Founded by Venkat Thiruvengadam, Duplocloud automates DevOps with a managed platform along with specialized AI agents.

2024

  • Board Member, Seed

    2024

    Founded by Chris Andrews and Robert MacCloy, previously the COO & CTO at Hearsay Systems, Scrunch AI offers a platform to show how brands appear in AI Search, insights on how to improve, and an infrastructure layer to manage AI Agents.

2024

  • Board Member, Series A

    2024

    Founded by Arjun Pillai and Anoop Matthew, DocketAI offers AI teammates for sales.

2021

  • Board Member, Seed

    2021

    Founded by Dor Shany and Rooly Eliezerov, who previously were part of the founding team at Gigya, OwnID is building a distributed customer identity platform

2022 - 2025

  • Board Member, Series A (Acquired by Capchase)

    2022 - 2025

    Founded by Kush Kella and Ahmed Sharif, Vartana is a unified B2B enterprise sales closing and financing platform, helping companies close deals faster and improve cash flow.

2020 - 2023

  • Board Member, Series A (Acquired by Socure)

    2020 - 2023

    Founded by Eric Levine and Steve Kirkham who previously led the Trust & Safety team at Airbnb, Berbix is an API for Instant Identity Verification.

2019 - 2021

  • Board Member (IPO)

    2019 - 2021

    Led by Matt Cain, Couchbase is the leading enterprise-class open source NoSQL database.

2007 - 2019

  • Chief Executive Officer (acquired by SAP)

    2011 - 2019

    Gigya leads the Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) category, providing an API for Registration, Consent Management & Customer Data Management for more than 700 customers, managing more than 2 billion identities.

  • Vice President Business Development

    2007 - 2011