Mayfield AI Garage - $100M Builder Initiative For Founders Building AI Teammates

Today we are announcing Mayfield AI Garage - a $100M Builder Initiative, aimed at ideation stage founders building AI Teammates. For more details, please read the TechCrunch article here.

AI Teammates are digital companions that represent a $6 trillion market opportunity. These digital companions are leading us into the era of Collaborative Intelligence, where humans partner with AI to revolutionize the way we work and live. Apply at mayfield.ai now.

As a three time entrepreneur who has benefited from Silicon Valley’s largesse, starting with my first company in 1996 as a Stanford PhD dropout, I have studied the history of legendary founders hatching companies in garages including - HP in 1939, Apple in 1976, and Google in 1998.? Beyond the humble physical space, the garage stands for a culture of advisors who provide resources to founders as they begin their journey.?

?Ideation stage founders @Mayfield AI Garage will:?

? Give zero equity to Mayfield at induction into the AI Garage

? Get compensation during the idea exploration stage

? Receive up to $5 million in funding per founding team

? Be paired? with a Mayfield investor

? Get access to our founder amplification team that provides help with:?

• Strategy and business plan creation
• Market opportunity sizing
• Customer validation from Mayfield’s CXO network
• Talent matching
• Brand and narrative creation

Our Experience:

We have decades of experience working alongside founders on their ideation to iconic journeys. We started in 1984 with the legendary John Hennessey, Alphabet Chairman and Stanford President Emeritus. Recent examples of ideation stage collaborations include: Manish Chandra & Tracy Sun of Poshmark, Gerard Williams III, Manu Gulati, & John Bruno of Nuvia, Kumar Ramachandran of CloudGenix, Gou Rao of Portworx & Neubird, Rehan Jalil of Elastica & Securiti.ai, Ankur Singla of Volterra & 2 stealth companies, Guru Pangal of CloudSimple & StorSimple, and Janice Chen & Trevor Martin of Mammoth Biosciences.

Our current AI teammates family includes: Balbix’s BIX (Security teams), DevRev (Support Rep), Docket (Sales Engineer), Neubird’s Hawkeye (SRE), Outreach (Sales Development Rep), Qventus (Healthcare Professional), Revefi (Data Engineer), Sema4 (Finance Manager), and two stealth startups (Chip Engineer and Security Analyst).?

Who Should Apply to AI Garage:

Bay Area based founders who want to build AI Teammates for five personas: marketing, IT services, financial services, healthcare & life sciences, and finance & accounting.?

Apply at mayfield.ai now. Applications will close by October 15, 2024. Selected founders will be announced no later than December 1, 2024.

Looking forward to ideating with entrepreneurs - let’s make history together!

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