Mayfield Adds Aditya Singh as Partner to Expand AI Infrastructure Investing at Inception

Proven early-stage investor and company builder joins as Mayfield increases its focus on foundational technologies within its $3 billion AI investment strategy.

MENLO PARK, Calif., August 20, 2026--Mayfield today announced that Adit Singh, a proven inception and early-stage investor with hands-on company-building experience, has joined the firm as a partner. Adit will focus on backing technical founders across AI hardware and software infrastructure, cybersecurity, and physical AI.

Artificial intelligence is reimagining every industry, but many of the foundational technologies required to power this transformation are still being built. Mayfield believes the defining AI companies of the next decade will be created by technical founders solving these fundamental infrastructure challenges.

Mayfield has backed these underlying systems across multiple computing cycles. Within its $3 billion AI investment strategy, the firm is increasing its focus on infrastructure and expanding its capacity to partner with technical founders beginning at the inception stage. Its track record includes NUVIA, acquired by Qualcomm, and AI infrastructure unicorns Lumilens, SambaNova Systems, Frore Systems, and Upscale AI.

With 70% of its investments beginning at inception, Mayfield is most often the first institutional investor partnering with a founding team. The firm partners with entrepreneurs well beyond the first check, providing company-building expertise and follow-on capital as they scale category-defining businesses.

Adit's addition builds on a 15-year relationship with Mayfield's Managing Partner Navin Chaddha. The two have worked together across three companies, giving Mayfield a firsthand view of Adit's trajectory and how he supports founders through the difficult moments of company building.

"I have been as impressed by who Adit is as a person as I have been by what he has accomplished as an investor," said Navin Chaddha, Mayfield Managing Partner. "He has proven his judgment at the inception stage of investing, brings deep technical and operating experience, and shares the culture Mayfield has built around putting people first. He will be a force multiplier for our team as we expand our work with founders building the next generation of AI infrastructure."

Before Mayfield, Adit spent more than a decade as an early-stage investor, most recently as a General Partner at Cota Capital. He previously co-founded Neotribe Ventures and served as a partner at Foundation Capital.