Mayfield Fund latest to join bandwagon to China

October 3, 2005 | Matt Marshall

Mayfield Fund, the well-known Menlo Park venture capital firm, said it has made investments into three Chinese technology companies, the first results of the firm’s partnership with a Beijing-based Chinese venture firm, GSR Ventures. Mayfield is the latest in a string of Silicon Valley firms to increase its activities in China.

The firm said it has led investments in SMIT, a fabless semiconductor manufacturer of modules for digital televisions; Mobert, a manufacturer of semiconductors for mobile applications; and Heiyou, an online matchmaking company.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.