Vinod Khosla
Founder @ Khosla Ventures
Menlo Park, United States
Vinod Khosla is a Series A investor at Khosla Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Vinod Khosla is the Partner of Khosla Ventures. Vinod Khosla attended Carnegie Mellon University.
- Total investments:
- 197
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries Vinod Khosla invests in
Stages Vinod Khosla invests in
Countries Vinod Khosla invests in
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Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.7M–$60M
- Series A
- $5.8M–$100M
- Series B
- $11M–$135M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 48 (24%)
- Software 33 (17%)
- Health Care 20 (10%)
- Information Technology 19 (10%)
- Medical 10 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 48 (24%)
- Series B 44 (22%)
- Seed 33 (17%)
- Series C 21 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 10 (5%)
Country
- United States 90 (46%)
- United Kingdom 8 (4%)
- India 7 (4%)
- Canada 5 (3%)
- Japan 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| LanzaJet producer of aviation fuel that captures waste gas emissions and uses bacteria to turn it into useable ethanol fuel. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Sabi is a neurotechnology startup developing a wearable, non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to translate internal human speech directly into digital text. | $50M / Seed / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Torch Sensors is an Internet firm that offers outdoor fire detection early enough to reduce damages. | $9.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| General Intuition is a frontier research lab focused on teaching machines to learn and adapt through play, aiming to build artificial intelligence that can perceive, anticipate, and improvise in real-world dynamics, with gaming as a central domain for testing and innovation. | $220M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| AI to automate microchip design | $12M / Series A / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Mazama Energy is a geothermal operator and development firm committed to developing new techniques and technology for removing heat from scorching rocks to produce baseload electricity at the utility-scale without emitting carbon. | $135M / Series B / Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Decimal AI is a software company that develops an AI-powered support platform for product and engineering teams. Its platform helps businesses answer customer questions, investigate reported issues, identify and fix software bugs, and manage feature requests. Decimal connects with systems such as customer support platforms, issue trackers, code repositories, logs, configurations, and communication tools to provide context for customer and product issues. Its AI agents can investigate problems, trace issues to their underlying causes, and take actions such as resolving bugs or implementing requested product changes. The platform can operate as a support workspace or integrate with existing tools, including Plain, Pylon, Zendesk, Jira, Salesforce, GitHub, and Slack. Decimal provides evidence-backed responses with citations from connected code, logs, configurations, and other data sources. Its platform includes access controls, audit logs, encryption, and deployment options such as private storage and customer-managed components. | $4M / Seed / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| TerraBlaster is a cutting-edge agricultural technology firm focused on transforming sustainable agriculture through enhanced automation and precise technologies. | $12.5M / Seed / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Corma develops foundation models and artificial intelligence systems for defensive cybersecurity. The company provides AI-powered security agents that work alongside human security teams to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats across existing security tools and infrastructure. Its foundation models are designed specifically fordefensive cybersecurity and generalize across security tasks, enabling organizations to automate threat detection, investigation, response, and other security operations. Corma's technology can be deployed within an organization's existing security environment and supports on-premises deployment and post-training using customer security data and context. The company focuses on developing AI systems that help organizations strengthen cybersecurity defenses as artificial intelligence enables increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. | $60M / Seed / Aug 10, 2026 | ||
| Discovery Loop is a pioneer in autonomous artificial intelligence, dedicated to deeply automating machine learning, science, and engineering. | Seed / Aug 05, 2026 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech, offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.
Khosla Ventures Contacts
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Bryan Gartner
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Ethan Choi
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Evan Moore
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Kanu Gulati
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Sandhya Venkatachalam
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FAQ
What does Vinod Khosla invest in?
Vinod Khosla invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 197 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Vinod Khosla invest in?
Vinod Khosla typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$60M at Seed, $5.8M–$100M at Series A and $11M–$135M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Vinod Khosla's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Vinod Khosla took part in.
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When did Vinod Khosla last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Vinod Khosla closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 197 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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