# Vinod Khosla

> Vinod Khosla is a Series A investor at Khosla Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence. See 177 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 177
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vinod-khosla/16/874/653
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/vkhosla
- Website: https://x.com/vkhosla
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071781031732

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$70M |
| Series A | $5.8M–$100M |
| Series B | $11M–$175M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 27 | 15% |
| Software | 19 | 11% |
| Health Care | 17 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 7% |
| Medical | 9 | 5% |

135 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 32 | 18% |
| Series B | 28 | 16% |
| Seed | 20 | 11% |
| Series C | 13 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 5% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 64 | 36% |
| India | 7 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 3% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Corma | 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 | Discovery Loop is a pioneer in autonomous artificial intelligence, dedicated to deeply automating machine learning, science, and engineering. |  | Seed | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Mariana Minerals | Mariana Minerals is a software-first critical minerals company that supplies materials essential for modern energy, AI, and defense applications. The company uses its proprietary platform, MarianaOS, which combines AI, machine learning, and end-to-end project execution tools to accelerate the timeline from discovery to production in the miningsector. | $310M | Series B | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| dili | Dili provides an AI-powered compliance automation platform for construction, infrastructure, energy, and manufacturing projects. The platform automates prevailing wage compliance, certified payroll review, apprenticeship tracking, wage validation, compliance reporting, and audit workflows to help organizations manage regulatory requirements forfederally funded projects. | $15M | Series A | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Twenty Technologies | Twenty Technologies builds cyber warfare software to automate and accelerate offensive cyber operations. | $30M | Series B | Jul 20, 2026 |  |
| Bunkerhill Health | AI agents for modern health systems | $25M | Series B | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Emergent | Emergent is a platform for agentic vibe-coding. | $130M | Series C | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Monumental | Monumental develops autonomous robotics and software systems for the construction industry, with a focus on automating on-site masonry and building workflows. Its technology combines a fleet of autonomous robots with Atrium, an integrated software platform that plans, coordinates, monitors, and manages robotic construction activities. The companydesigns and operates its robotics hardware, machine vision systems, and software to enable robots to work alongside construction teams on active job sites. Its solutions support tasks such as bricklaying, site mapping, project planning, progress tracking, and quality monitoring through a unified digital workflow. Monumental deploys its technology on residential, commercial, and infrastructure construction projects to improve the consistency and efficiency of repetitive building processes while integrating with existing construction practices. | $32M | Series B | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Scaled Cognition | Scaled Cognition creates AI models that are rational, controllable, and can serve as domain experts for practical, real-world applications. | $100M | Series A | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| General Intuition | 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. | $320M | Series A | Jun 25, 2026 |  |

10 of 177 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 27 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 9 deals together

## About Khosla Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Khosla Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bryan Gartner | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-gartner |
| Ethan Choi | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethan-choi |
| Evan Moore | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evan-moore |
| Kanu Gulati | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kanu-gulati |
| Sandhya Venkatachalam | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/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 177 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Vinod Khosla's check size?

Vinod Khosla typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$70M at Seed, $5.8M–$100M at Series A and $11M–$175M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vinod Khosla participates in.

### When did Vinod Khosla last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vinod Khosla closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 177 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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