Yogen Dalal's successful history as an entrepreneur and executive coupled with his legacy as an engineer makes him enormously valuable as a venture capitalist and Mayfield leader since 1991. He brings broad talent to a wide range of early-stage investments in the consumer/media, enterprise and communications software arenas.
Yogen currently sits on the boards of Affinity Labs, Consorte, Packet Design, PacketHop, Podbridge and Revenue Science. Yo...
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Yogen Dalal's successful history as an entrepreneur and executive coupled with his legacy as an engineer makes him enormously valuable as a venture capitalist and Mayfield leader since 1991. He brings broad talent to a wide range of early-stage investments in the consumer/media, enterprise and communications software arenas.
Yogen currently sits on the boards of Affinity Labs, Consorte, Packet Design, PacketHop, Podbridge and Revenue Science. Yogen's past notable investments include Arbor Software, BeVocal, BroadVision, Concur, Nuance, OuterBay, Packet Engines, Snapfish, TIBCO, Vantive and Whistle.
Prior to joining Mayfield, Yogen was a founding member of two successful startups, Claris Corporation and Metaphor Computer Systems. Yogen was also a member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox and a co-author of the TCP Specification while at Stanford University.
Yogen earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where he was recently honored as a Distinguished Alum.
Yogen is a Charter Member of TiE and a board member of the Entrepreneurs Foundation. He also serves on the board of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a nationally acclaimed professional non-profit theater company in Ashland, Oregon.
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