Irving Hsu
Principal
Mayfield Fund
Mayfield principal investing in enterprise AI and infrastructure.
Bio
Professional summary
Rajeev Batra is a Mayfield Partner whose profile emphasizes founder partnership, radical candor, transparency, empathy, and high engagement. He has operating experience across sales, marketing, product, and technical roles at startups and public companies. Before Mayfield, he worked at companies including Siebel Systems, Scopus Technology, Open Environment Corporation, and NetNumina Solutions. His education includes an MBA from Harvard Business School, a master's in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
Enterprise venture
Sector
Enterprise softwareAI-native enterprise softwareSales, marketing, and HR technology
Thesis
Enterprise softwareAI-powered enterprise platformsRevenue, talent, and business intelligence platforms
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
OutreachMarketoSeekOutSmartRecruitersServiceMaxAlignableCrunchbaseCubeTrustRadiusWideOrbit
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Lead with an enterprise pain point, a clear founder-market insight, and a thoughtful explanation of why the company can become a trusted platform for large organizations. He appears particularly relevant for enterprise software founders who value candid, engaged partnership and have a strong go-to-market or category-creation thesis.
Personalization hooks
- 1Reference his enterprise track record with Outreach, Marketo, SeekOut, and ServiceMax.
- 2Tie the company narrative to his stated interest in empathy, trust, and founder partnership.
- 3Mention AI-native enterprise workflow only if the company has clear enterprise deployment relevance.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Mayfield profile lists Outreach as an AI platform for enterprise revenue teams and SeekOut as an AI-native talent optimization platform.
Mayfield profile links to founder-focused content and a Top.VC podcast appearance, though the listed items are mostly from 2022 and 2023.
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