Yogen Dalal

Yogen Dalal, Angel investor in Palo Alto is an active investor based in Palo Alto, California. This profile covers what Yogen Dalal backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Yogen Dalal is the Founder and serves as Board Observer at Glooko. He serves as Advisor at Common Sense Media. He served as an Advisor at Somnoware. He served as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board at Good Capital. He served as a Board Member at AudienceScience. He served as a Board Member at Electric Cloud and Beddr. He served as Partner Emeritus at Mayfield Fund. He is an entrepreneur, engineer, and Silicon Valley executive who has been at Mayfield since 1991. He invests in the consumer and internet infrastructure areas. Before joining Mayfield, he was a founding member of two startups, Claris Corporation and Metaphor Computer Systems. He was also a member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox and a co-author of the TCP Specification in 1974 while at Stanford University. His Ethernet industry blog can be found at Ethernet History. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He serves on the board of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Northern California Public Broadcasting, Zenprise, and AudienceScience.

Notable investments

Impact Partners FilmEVNTLIVEBenetechMayfield FundOregon Shakespeare FestivalGlooko, Inc.ClintKQEDTheatreWorksElectric CloudEntrepreneurs FoundationEnwoven