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Khosla Ventures

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Venture Capital Firm

Khosla Ventures is an American venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. It invests early-stage in AI, deep tech, clean energy, biotech and fintech; it was the first VC investor in OpenAI.

Founded2004United States
HQMenlo ParkUnited States
Total fundingVC firm (early-stage, deep tech); ~$15B assets under management (2021), $3.1B across three funds in 2023.
01 · About

Khosla Ventures

Founded 2004 · Menlo Park, United States

Khosla Ventures is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla - co-founder of Sun Microsystems and a former general partner at Kleiner Perkins. The firm invests primarily at the early stage across a broad range of technologies: artificial intelligence, computing and internet, mobile, financial services, agriculture, healthcare and biotech, and clean technology. Khosla Ventures is known for bold, long-horizon technology bets. According to available data the firm managed roughly $15B in assets (2021) and in November 2023 closed $3.1B across three new funds. Its most notable investments include OpenAI (Khosla was its first VC investor in 2018; in October 2024 the firm raised an additional $405M special purpose vehicle for OpenAI), as well as Instacart, DoorDash, Affirm, Square/Block, Stripe, Rocket Lab, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Impossible Foods, GitLab and Okta. Khosla Ventures is also one of the investors in Discovery Loop.

  • Vinod Khosla

    Founder

    Co-founder of Sun Microsystems and former general partner at Kleiner Perkins; founded Khosla Ventures in 2004.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

4 industries
Who for4Industries
  • Finance & banking
  • Software & Technology
  • Pharma & biotech
  • Energy
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Menlo Park · 2 regions
North AmericaGlobal
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2004
2004founded
VC firm (early-stage, deep tech); ~$15B assets under management (2021), $3.1B across three funds in 2023.total funding
maturedevelopment stage
Privatenot listed
activestatus
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

1 strategic relations

Strategic relations

1
  • Investor in
    Discovery LoopKhosla Ventures is among the investors in Discovery Loop (alongside Alphabet and Radical Ventures).
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 4 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagemature
  • Listed onNoprivate
  • Organization typeVenture Capital Firm