Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, and headquartered out of Menlo Park, California. Khosla Ventures invests in technology companies that are in both early and late stages. Technology companies receiving capital from Khosla Ventures are usually operating within the following sectors: environmental, agriculture, food, software, hardware, big data, robotics, materials, chemical, marketing, advertising, financial services, energy, space, education, consumer, enterprise, and health.
The following people are part of Khosla Ventures investment team:
- Alex Morgan
- Ben Ling
- David Weiden
- Delian Aparouhv
- Evan Moore
- Kanu Gulati
- Keith Rabois
- Kristina Simmons
- Maryanna Saenko
- Samir Kaul
- Sven Strohband
- Tim Westergren
The following companies have received venture capital from Khosla Ventures:
Blue River Technology
Agriculture/Food
2012
Timeline
Funded Companies
Zenefits is a human resources company. It provides a digital HR platform for small and medium businesses.
A genetic medicine company that build data platforms using synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and genetic medicine creating medical therapies.
Impossible Foods is a plant-based meat company making meat and dairy products that are made to look and feel like animal products by manufacturing heme, the oxygen binding molecule found in blood, using engineered yeast grown in bioreactors.
A technology company that has developed solutions for making and receiving payments. It was founded in 2009 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.
3D printed building company funded by Y Combinator.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research and development company developing fusion power systems based on ARC tokamak reactors.
OpenDoor is a San Francisco-based real estate technology company offering virtual and streamlined real estate buying and selling founded in 2014 by Keith Rabois, Eric Wu, JD Ross and Ian Wong.
Guardant Health is a Redwood City, California-based biotechnology company developing precision oncology treatments.
LightSail Energy was a Berkeley, California based company developing above-ground compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems
An insurance technology company utilizing technology, design and data to humanize health care. and offer health insurance.
Big Switch Networks is a Santa Clara, California-based company founded in 2010.
A healthcare company helping patients management their health and their involvement in the healthcare system.
Notable Labs is a company providing personalized drug combination testing service for cancer patients.
Hermeus is an Atlanta-based aerospace company focused on developing a hypersonic aircraft founded by AJ Piplica, Skyler Shuford, Michael Smayda and Glenn Case.
A technology company building products for enabling the autonomous operation of self-driving vehicles.
Affirm is a financial technology services company offering installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Atomwise is a company that develops AI solutions for drug discovery.
An industrial biotechnology company using a bioprocessing platform to produce chemical products.
A renewable energy company making battery technology for electric vehicles.
WaveOne is Mountain View, California-based context-adaptive compression of digital media company using artificial intelligence for their video compression.
A New Zealand industrial biotechnology company developing a gas fermentation platform for converting concentrated industrial emissions into valuable chemicals.
DoorDash is a food delivery company. It participated in the S13 cohort of Y Combinator.
Associated investment funds
People
Aadik Shekar
Employee
Ardy Daie
Employee
Benjamin Ling
Employee
Catherine Casuga
Employee
David Weiden
Employee
Elizabeth Karnes
Employee
Irene Au
Employee
Isy Goldwasser
Employee
John Demeter
Employee
Kanu Gulati
Employee
Keith Rabois
Investor
Maha Achour
Investor
Maria D'Avolio
Employee
Paolo Messina, PhD, MBA
Employee
Samir Kaul
Employee
Sandhya Hegde
Employee
thomas lueke
Employee
Vijit Sabnis
Employee
Vinod Khosla
Founder