Mayfield Fund Sponsors DEMOmobile 2000 Conference On Mobile Computing
PASADENA, Calif. — September 6, 2000 — The hot emerging sector of mobile computing will be the focus of the DEMOmobile 2000 conference opening today, and Mayfield Fund is one of the main sponsors of the event. Mayfield Fund, based in Menlo Park, Calif., is a top-tier venture capital partnership investing in revolutionary 21st century companies for the Internet and communications industries.
Mayfield, which has been a leading technology venture capital firm for more than 30 years, is investing heavily in Mobile Internet companies. The firm has investments in many companies in this sector, including AlterEgo, BeVocal, Burst Wireless, CoWave, interWAVE Communications, iScribe, LGC Wireless, MobileStar Network, Nuance Communications, ThinkLink, and Wireless Online.
Mayfield's most recent addition to the team of general partners, Janice Roberts, will be leading the firm's Mobile Internet initiative. Roberts recently managed a number of mobile activities at 3Com Corporation, including a series of related investments, strategic partnerships and the leadership of the Palm Computing subsidiary.
"Mayfield Fund has always been at the forefront of technology innovation and the firm is continuing in that tradition with its current focus on mobile computing," commented Roberts. "In this category we will be investing in wireless infrastructure and services, products and applications, with global market opportunity," she added.
Roberts will be speaking on one of the first panels of the conference, entitled "Funding Wireless Ventures: Due Diligence and Emerging Opportunities." Immediately following the panel, Mayfield will co-sponsor the conference's opening reception.
DEMOmobile 2000, sponsored by IDG Conference Management, brings together leading analysts, venture backers, executives, product developers, technologists, and journalists for a look ahead to the products and technologies that will shape the rapidly expanding mobile computing marketplace.
About Mayfield Fund
Mayfield, a premier Silicon Valley venture capital firm, is creating revolutionary companies for the 21st century in communications and the Internet. Since Mayfield's founding in 1969, the firm has invested in more than 397 companies and has taken approximately 111 companies public. Today, these Mayfield-backed companies represent an aggregate market value of more than $232 billion. Examples of Mayfield's portfolio companies include: Advent Software; Avanex; BroadVision; Citrix Systems; Dovebid; FolioFN; Millennium Pharmaceuticals; Qtera; Snapfish; Redback Networks; Tularik; Tibco and webMethods.
CONTACT:
Mayfield Fund
Janice Roberts, 650/854-5560
or
Jennifer Jones Consulting
Jennifer Jones, 650/529-1416