Mayfield appoints Vishal Dixit as partner

MF Advisors LLP announced the appointment of Vishal Dixit as a Partner. MF Advisors was co-founded by Nikhil Khattau and Vikram Godse and currently advises Indian venture capital funds with over $219 million under management.

Dixit was previously a director at Zephyr Peacock, where he was a founding team member of four India focused funds and sat on the Investment Committee of the Zephyr Peacock III India Fund. He led Zephyr's investments in and served on the boards of Aizant (life sciences product development), E2E Rail (railway technology services), and Pennar PEBS (pre-engineered construction), and was closely involved with another nine investments across various sectors. Dixit has also worked with Macquarie Capital's principal investments group in New York, Actis Capital in London, the Secretariat for the Indian Prime Minister's Committee on Infrastructure, the Planning Commission of India, and the United Nations. He holds an MBA from Stanford University.

MF Advisors LLP advises Mayfield, a global venture capital firm with over $2.6 billion under management. Mayfield follows an early stage venture capital strategy in India, and invests between $3 million to $8 million in companies across a variety of sectors.

Mayfield started investing in India in 2006 and has made investments in companies such as Matrimony.com, Indiaproperty.com, Tejas Networks, Fourcee Infrastructure, Centum Learning, Genesis Colours, Geodesic Techniques, Amagi Media, the Beer Cafe, Sohanlal Commodity Management, and Securens Systems.