Khosla Ventures

Venture capital firm
Menlo Park, California, USAFounded 2004www.khoslaventures.comSee connections →Compare with SV Angel

Early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology-based solutions across consumer, enterprise, fintech, frontier, healthcare, and sustainability.

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At a glance

Khosla Ventures appears in 36 funding rounds tracked by ValueAddVC since 2024, leading 12. Its most frequent sectors in these rounds are AI & Infrastructure and Health & Biotech, and its most recent tracked deal was Even Healthcare's $50M Series B round (Oct 19, 2026). It co-invests most often with Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital and General Catalyst. ValueAddVC also tracks 8 funds managed by Khosla Ventures.

Strategy

Stages
SeedSeries AGrowth
Sectors
AIClimateEnergyHealthcareBiotechSpaceEnterprise
Geographies
USAMenlo Park, California, USA
Check size
$500K-$50M

Recent changes

  1. Oct 19, 2026Invested in Tolan (venture, $30M) TechCrunch
  2. Oct 19, 2026Invested in Even Healthcare (Series B, $50M) TechCrunch
  3. Oct 15, 2026Invested in Abby Care (Series C, $82M) Fortune
  4. Oct 15, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Ramp (primary financing, $1.85B) Morningstar
  5. Oct 8, 2026Invested in Arena (Series B, $200M) TechCrunch
Earlier changes (15)
  1. Oct 8, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Oratomic (Series B, $475M) SiliconANGLE
  2. Oct 6, 2026Invested in Vinci (Series B, $250M) Financial Content
  3. Oct 5, 2026Menlo Backs Factory Right After Its Khosla Blowup Pulse story
  4. Sep 29, 2026Follow-on: Invested in General Intuition ($220M) SiliconANGLE
  5. Sep 28, 2026Vinod Khosla: Robotics Valuations Will Fall By 2030 Pulse story
  6. Sep 25, 2026Invested in Rightway (Series E, $155M) PR Newswire
  7. Sep 17, 2026Invested in PrismML (Seed, $22.25M) TechCrunch
  8. Sep 17, 2026Invested in Mazama Energy (Series B, $135M) TechCrunch
  9. Sep 17, 2026Khosla-Backed Mazama Energy Raises $135M For Hot-Rock Power Pulse story
  10. Sep 16, 2026Invested in Factory ($200M) TechFundingNews
  11. Sep 15, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Profound (Series D, $180M) TechCrunch
  12. Sep 11, 2026Khosla Ventures Leaves Sand Hill Road For NYC Pulse story
  13. Sep 8, 2026Invested in Moonwalk Biosciences (Series B, $70M) BioSpace
  14. Sep 5, 2026Sectors updated: AI, Climate, Energy, Healthcare, Biotech, Space, Enterprise khoslaventures.com
  15. Sep 5, 2026Stages updated: Seed, Series A, Growth khoslaventures.com

Funds

8
FundVintageSizeStrategySource
Khosla Ventures Opportunity Fund III2025target $1.3BOpportunity
As of Jul 2, 2025SEC EDGAR Form D
Khosla Ventures Venture Fund IX2025target $1.9BVenture
As of Jul 2, 2025SEC EDGAR Form D
Khosla Ventures Opportunity Fund II2023target $399MOpportunity
As of Dec 22, 2023SEC EDGAR Form D
Khosla Ventures Venture Fund VIII2023target $232MVenture
As of Dec 22, 2023SEC EDGAR Form D
Khosla Ventures Opportunity Fund I2020$557.35MOpportunity
As of Dec 22, 2021SEC EDGAR Form D
Show 3 earlier funds
FundVintageSizeStrategySource
Khosla Ventures Venture Fund VII2020target $1.1BVenture
As of Oct 14, 2020SEC EDGAR Form D
KHOSLA VENTURES VI (AIV)2019$50MSide vehicleSide vehicle (parallel, feeder, affiliate or SPV) — not the flagship close
As of Jun 20, 2019SEC EDGAR Form D
Khosla Ventures Venture Fund VI2018target $1BVenture
As of Mar 20, 2018SEC EDGAR Form D

Portfolio

47 total
OpenAIEven HealthcareTolanRampAbby CareOratomicArenaVinciGeneral IntuitionRightwayPrismMLMazama EnergyFactoryProfoundMach IndustriesCognitionMoonwalk BiosciencesSonic Fire TechLovableCormaWindBorne SystemsEllisCommonwealth Fusion SystemsTwentySingularityBunkerhill HealthEmergentGlydwaysNorm AISarvamNavigateAIRad TechnologiesHermeusStripePhysical IntelligenceVercelGenesis AIDoorDashRocket LabParallelOktaSakana AIRubrikAffirmBlockRealta FusionScience Corporation

Recent Investment Activity

20

Track record: led 12 and participated in 24 of 36 tracked venture rounds · 29 in the last 12 months · led 4 Series B, 3 Series A, 2 Series C, 1 Series B extension

DateCompanyEventRoleAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Oct 19, 2026Even HealthcareSeries BLed$50M$300M
Khosla VenturesLeadunverifiedAlpha Wave Globalunverified
TechCrunch
Oct 19, 2026TolanventureParticipated$30M$268M (est., PitchBook)
Union Square VenturesunverifiedKhosla VenturesunverifiedHomebrewunverified
TechCrunch
Oct 15, 2026Abby CareSeries CParticipated$82M—
Khosla VenturesunverifiedThrive CapitalunverifiedSequoia CapitalunverifiedTransformation Capital
Pulse story
Oct 15, 2026Rampprimary financingParticipated$1.85B$60B
Dragoneer Investment GroupLeadunverifiedThrive CapitalunverifiedFounders FundunverifiedSands CapitalunverifiedFidelity InvestmentsunverifiedT. Rowe PriceunverifiedD1 Capital PartnersunverifiedGreenoaksunverifiedIconiq CapitalunverifiedGICunverified8VCunverifiedCoatue ManagementunverifiedFirstMark CapitalunverifiedGeneral CatalystunverifiedKhosla VenturesunverifiedLightspeed Venture PartnersunverifiedStripes GroupunverifiedAvenir GrowthD.E. Shaw
Morningstar
Oct 8, 2026ArenaSeries BLed$200M$3.1B
Lightspeed Venture PartnersLeadunverifiedKhosla VenturesLeadunverifiedSalesforce Venturesunverified01 AdvisorsunverifiedDell Technologies CapitalunverifiedEndeavor CatalystunverifiedAndreessen HorowitzunverifiedFelicis Venturesunverified
TechCrunch
Oct 8, 2026OratomicSeries BLed$475M$5.5B
ARCH Venture PartnersLeadunverifiedSpark CapitalLeadunverifiedKhosla VenturesLeadunverifiedIndex VenturesLeadunverifiedGeneral CatalystLeadunverifiedBezos ExpeditionsLeadunverified
SiliconANGLE
Oct 6, 2026VinciSeries BParticipated$250M$1.5B
Advent InternationalLeadunverifiedTemasekLeadunverifiedXoraLeadunverifiedAMD VenturesunverifiedEclipse VenturesunverifiedKhosla VenturesunverifiedMadrona Venturesunverified
Financial Content
Sep 29, 2026General Intuitionfunding roundParticipated$220M$6.2B
Valor Equity PartnersunverifiedAtreides ManagementunverifiedSeven Seven SixunverifiedPoint72unverifiedKhosla VenturesunverifiedGeneral Catalystunverified
SiliconANGLE
Sep 25, 2026RightwaySeries EParticipated$155M$1.75B
Francisco PartnersLeadThrive CapitalKhosla VenturesExpress ScriptsOptum Rx oligopoly
Pulse story
Sep 17, 2026Mazama EnergySeries BParticipated$135M—
Khosla VenturesCentaurus CapitalDoerr CapitalGates Frontier
Pulse story
Sep 17, 2026PrismMLSeedParticipated$22.25M—
Khosla VenturesCerberus Capital ManagementCaltech
TechCrunch
Sep 16, 2026Factoryfunding roundLed$200M$5B
Khosla VenturesLeadBlackstoneLeadSequoia CapitalLeadNico RosbergMarc BenioffBrad Gerstner
TechFundingNews
Sep 15, 2026ProfoundSeries DParticipated$180M$1.8B
Sequoia CapitalLeadKleiner PerkinsLeadLightspeed Venture PartnersTech Funding NewsKhosla VenturesTech Funding NewsSaga VenturesTech Funding NewsEvantic CapitalTech Funding NewsSouth Park CommonsTech Funding News
TechCrunch
Sep 8, 2026Moonwalk BiosciencesSeries BParticipated$70M—
Alpha Wave GlobalLeadEli Lilly and CompanyGaorong VenturesARCH Venture PartnersKhosla VenturesFuture VenturesYK Bioventures
BioSpace
Aug 17, 2026Sonic Fire Techfunding roundParticipated$15M—
Khosla VenturesThe O.H.I.O. Fund
Pulse story
Aug 10, 2026CormaSeedParticipated$60M—
Sequoia CapitalLeadCalcalistechKhosla VenturesCalcalistechCoatue ManagementCalcalistech
Value Add Pulse research
Jul 31, 2026EllisSeedParticipated$10M—
First Round Capital645 VenturesHarlem CapitalKhosla VenturesThrive CapitalKearny JacksonAriel AlternativesSlow Capital
TechCrunch
Jul 20, 2026TwentySeries B extensionLed$30M$1.2B
Khosla VenturesLead
PR Newswire
Jul 17, 2026SingularitySeries ALed$80M$400M
Khosla VenturesLeadFelicis VenturesLead
Pulse story
Jul 16, 2026Bunkerhill HealthSeries BLed$25M—
Khosla VenturesLead
Pulse story

Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
9 · 19%
Fintech
5 · 11%
Healthcare
3 · 6%
Developer tools
3 · 6%
Energy
3 · 6%
Defense
3 · 6%
Cybersecurity
2 · 4%
Consumer
2 · 4%
Robotics
2 · 4%
Software
2 · 4%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series B
8 · 40%
Series C
7 · 35%
Seed
5 · 25%
Series A
4 · 20%
venture
1 · 5%
primary financing
1 · 5%
Series E
1 · 5%
Series D
1 · 5%
Series B extension
1 · 5%
Series E-2
1 · 5%

Co-Investors

12
SV Angel · 9 sharedSequoia Capital · 8 sharedThrive Capital · 7 sharedAlpha Wave Global · 6 sharedGeneral Catalyst · 6 sharedCoatue Management · 5 sharedAccel · 4 sharedAndreessen Horowitz · 4 sharedInfinite Capital · 1 sharedKickstart · 1 sharedPinegrove Venture Partners · 1 sharedPivotal Ventures · 1 shared

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Latest Pulse

  1. Tolan Raises $30M For Its AI Companion AppTolan raised $30 million, doubling its total funding, for an AI companion app with over 250,000 active users who logged 70 million conversations in the past year.→
  2. Even Healthcare Raises $50M Series B | Valuation Triples To $300MKhosla Ventures led a $50 million Series B for Even Healthcare, tripling the Bengaluru hospital operator's valuation to $300 million as it pushes a capitated, outcomes-based care model into India's fee-for-service hospital market.→
  3. Benchmark Admits AI Is Breaking VC's No-Rivals RuleAt TechCrunch Disrupt, Benchmark partners said the AI boom is straining VC's old norm against funding direct rivals, pointing to OpenAI and Anthropic sharing dozens of the same investors.→
  4. Benchmark: AI Boom Is Straining VCs' No-Rivals PactBenchmark partners said at TechCrunch Disrupt that the unwritten rule against VCs backing direct competitors is under real strain as AI reshuffles startup categories overnight.→
  5. Abby Care Raises $82M Series C For Family CaregiversAbby Care raised $82 million in a Series C led by Transformation Capital to expand its model of training and paying family members as certified home-care givers.→
  6. TwinCafe Lets Recruiters Interview Your AI Twin FirstEightfold AI CEO Ashutosh Garg's new platform TwinCafe lets job candidates build an AI twin from their résumé and work history that recruiters can question before ever meeting the real person.→
  7. Arena Nearly Doubles To $3.1B In 10 MonthsThe AI leaderboard startup raised a $200M Series B led by Lightspeed and Khosla, nearly doubling its valuation from January as it pushes into AI-safety grading.→
  8. Oratomic Triples To $5.5B Valuation In Three MonthsQuantum computing startup Oratomic raised a $475 million Series B at a $5.5 billion valuation, up from $1.5 billion three months ago, the same day rival Universal Quantum closed a $100 million-plus Series A.→
  9. Sigil Wen's Underdog Challenges Instinct On PrivacySigil Wen, a Thiel Fellow who once worked alongside Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas and OpenAI's Noam Brown, launched Underdog, a privacy-focused AI assistant that runs entirely on-device.→
  10. Vinci Raises $250M At $1.5B To Simulate Chips With AIVinci, a Palo Alto startup using AI to simulate chip and hardware physics, raised a $250 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, less than a year after emerging from stealth.→
  11. Khosla Picks Wajo To Win The AI Agent Trust WarVinod Khosla is publicly betting on Wajo, a trust-focused AI agent from ex-Google/DeepMind engineer Shivani Poddar that's already drawn angel backing from Jeff Dean and Gokul Rajaram.→
  12. Menlo Backs Factory Right After Its Khosla BlowupDays after a public dispute between Factory's CEO and Khosla Ventures, Menlo Ventures joined Factory's round at a $5 billion valuation -- a pointed show of confidence in a company whose own backer just called it second-tier.→
  13. General Intuition's New Round Lifts It To $6.2BGeneral Intuition raised $220 million in new funding at a $6.2 billion valuation, up from the $2.3 billion mark Pulse covered in June, as investor interest in AI world-model startups keeps compounding.→
  14. Vinod Khosla: Robotics Valuations Will Fall By 2030Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla says valuations for most robotics startups will fall by 2030, arguing today's pricing assumes far more companies succeed than the physical-AI market can actually support.→
  15. Rightway Raises $155M To Take On PBM GiantsRightway raised $155 million in Series E funding led by Francisco Partners as the pharmacy-benefits startup takes aim at the CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx oligopoly.→
  16. Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures Are Quietly Touring ChinaFounders Fund and Khosla Ventures have each sent partners on extended trips through China to meet AI founders directly, even as both firms' US dollar investment in Chinese startups has fallen sharply over the past several years.→
  17. Khosla-Backed Mazama Energy Raises $135M For Hot-Rock PowerMazama Energy closed an oversubscribed $135 million Series B led by Centaurus Capital and Doerr Capital, with ConocoPhillips, Shell Ventures and returning backer Khosla Ventures, to drill three miles into superheated rock for round-the-clock power.→
  18. PrismML's Ternary-Weight LLM Fits A 27B Model In 5.9GBPrismML, backed by Khosla Ventures and Caltech on a $22.25 million seed, compressed a 27-billion-parameter model to 5.9GB using ternary weights while retaining 98% of the original's benchmark performance.→
  19. Factory Triples To $5B Valuation In Five MonthsFactory raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation, tripling its price tag from April as the AI coding-agent company pitches full software-development automation rather than autocomplete.→
  20. Khosla Ventures Leaves Sand Hill Road For NYCKhosla Ventures is opening its first office outside Sand Hill Road, a 14th Street outpost in New York set to open this fall as the city overtakes the Bay Area in tech headcount.→
  21. Moonwalk Biosciences Raises $70M For Obesity RNAiMoonwalk Biosciences closed an oversubscribed $70 million Series B to advance an adipose-targeted RNA interference therapy for obesity toward its first human trial, bringing total funding to roughly $127 million since its 2024 launch.→
  22. Opendoor's Founder Built NavigateAI to Sell AI to ElectriciansNavigateAI, the construction-labor AI startup from Opendoor founder Eric Wu, raised a $25 million seed at a $225 million valuation from Elad Gil, Khosla Ventures and a roster of operator angels.→
  23. Profound Raises $96M to Own AI Search AnswersProfound raised a $96 million Series C led by Lightspeed to help brands track and influence how they get cited inside AI chatbot answers, the generative engine optimization category forming as search shifts from links to answers.→
  24. The Startups Building AI Agents That Shop for YouVenture capital is fanning out across every layer of agentic commerce at once -- multipurpose shopping agents, deal-finding assistants, and the payment plumbing agents need to transact -- with real usage and real failures alike.→
  25. Berry Street Merges With India's Healthify on GLP-1US nutrition startup Berry Street merged with India's Khosla-backed Healthify to build a combined metabolic-care platform as GLP-1 adoption climbs, with JPMorgan projecting over 30 million Americans on the drugs by 2030.→
  26. General Intuition Hits $6B Valuation on Robotics PushValor Equity Partners and Point72 are backing General Intuition at a $6 billion valuation as the spatial-reasoning AI startup extends from video-game agents into physical robotics.→
  27. Sequoia, Khosla, Y Combinator Lead 2026's Unicorn ClassSequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator top the list of investors backing 2026's new unicorns, with 250 companies reaching billion-dollar valuations through August 15 -- up from 193 in all of 2025, per Crunchbase data.→
  28. Sound-Powered Fire Startup Raises $15M SeedOhio-based Sonic Fire Tech raised a $15 million round to develop infrasound fire suppression that extinguishes flames with low-frequency sound waves instead of water or chemicals.→
  29. AI Agent Security Funding Tops $435M in Two WeeksCorma, Zenity and Horizon3 raised a combined $435 million in the first ten days of August for AI-agent and AI-driven cybersecurity defense, three separate bets that defensive tooling is under-capitalized relative to offensive AI capability.→
  30. Corma Raises $60M Seed to Build Defensive Cyber AICorma, a Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup, emerged from stealth with a $60 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital to build what it calls the first foundation model purpose-built for defensive cybersecurity.→
  31. Jeff Dean Launches Discovery Loop With Google BackingJeff Dean left Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, an AI research startup automating scientific discovery, with Google staying on as a founding investor and cloud partner.→
  32. Can WindBorne Make AI Weather Forecasting Lucrative?WindBorne Systems, which raised $37M at a $250M valuation earlier this year, is now testing whether AI weather forecasts accurate enough to beat government agencies can also be a real business, not just a research feat.→
  33. Parallel Raises $100M to Build Search for AI AgentsParallel raised a $100M Series B led by Sequoia, with Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins participating, to build a search engine designed specifically for AI agents rather than human browsers.→
  34. Singularity Emerges From Stealth With $80M for Air DefenseDefense startup Singularity emerged from stealth with an $80M Series A led by Khosla Ventures and Felicis at a $400M valuation, betting on next-generation air defense technology as venture defense-tech financing keeps accelerating.→
  35. Cadre Founder Raises $10M Seed for Private Credit AIRyan Williams, co-founder of real estate platform Cadre, emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed funding for Ellis, an AI-native platform aimed at fixing private credit managers' fragmented data workflows.→
  36. Defense-Tech Funding Keeps Defying GravityDefense-tech venture funding has already topped $14.6 billion in the first five months of 2026, surpassing the sector's entire 2025 funding record.→
  37. Genesis AI in Talks to Raise $500M at $3B ValuationRobotics foundation-model startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise roughly $500 million at a $3 billion pre-money valuation, less than 13 months after emerging from stealth with a $105 million seed round.→
  38. Defense Startup Singularity Raises $80M at $400MDefense-tech startup Singularity raised an $80M Series A at a $400M valuation led by Khosla Ventures and Felicis, adding to a wave of LA-based defense startups drawing venture capital once reserved for software.→
  39. Quantum Computing's Venture Moment Keeps CompoundingOratomic's $300 million Series A -- Khosla's largest-ever first check -- is the clearest sign yet that VCs now treat quantum computing as its own well-capitalized category, distinct from the AI infrastructure boom.→
  40. Oratomic Raises $300M to Build a 20K-Qubit Quantum ComputerOratomic, a Caltech-spinout quantum computing startup, raised a $300 million Series A to build a utility-scale quantum computer using roughly 20,000 qubits instead of the million-plus rivals are targeting.→

Khosla Ventures FAQ

What is Khosla Ventures' latest fund?

Khosla Ventures Opportunity Fund I, closed at $557.35M (As of Dec 22, 2021; SEC EDGAR Form D).

What companies has Khosla Ventures invested in?

Khosla Ventures' portfolio includes OpenAI, Even Healthcare, Tolan, Ramp, Abby Care, Oratomic, and 41 more tracked companies.

Who does Khosla Ventures co-invest with most?

In the rounds Value Add tracks, Khosla Ventures most often invests alongside SV Angel (9 shared deals), Sequoia Capital (8 shared deals), Thrive Capital (7 shared deals), Alpha Wave Global (6 shared deals), General Catalyst (6 shared deals).

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