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1. Khosla Ventures
Type Private
Industry Venture capital
Founded 2004
Founder Vinod Khosla
Headquarters Menlo Park, California,
United States
Products Investments
Total assets $15 billion (October
2021)
Website www.khoslaventures.com
(http://www.khoslaventur
es.com)
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is an American venture capital firm
founded by Vinod Khosla, focused on early-stage companies
in the Internet, computing, mobile, silicon technology,
biotechnology, healthcare and clean technology sectors.[1][2]
The firm is based in Menlo Park, California, and manages
investor capital as well as earlier funds funded by Khosla. As
of October 2021, Khosla Ventures has $15 billion in assets
under management.[3]
History
Khosla Labs
References
External links
The firm was founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, a former general partner of Kleiner Perkins.[4] The firm's
first two investment vehicles were funded with Khosla's own personal capital and were not open to
institutional investors. In March 2009, Pierre Lamond became General Partner.[5] In December 2009,
Khosla completed fundraising for two new funds, to invest in cleantech and information technology start-
ups.
Khosla Ventures Fund III secured $1 billion of investor commitments to invest in traditional early stage and
growth stage companies. Khosla also raised $300 million for Khosla Seed, which will invest in higher-risk
opportunities and science experiments.[6] The firm has invested in bio-refineries for energy and bioplastics,
solar, wind, battery, engines, LED, HVAC efficiency and other environmentally friendly technologies.[7][8]
Some companies funded by Khosla Ventures include: Academia.edu, Amyris, Bloom Energy, Plastiq
Inc.,[9] Cosaint Technologies, DB Networks, EcoMotors, GreatPoint Energy, Impossible Foods, Instacart,
LS9 Inc.,[10] Neverware, Panzura, SeaMicro, Snip.it, Tapingo, Thync, Relcy,[11][12] and Vectra Networks
Inc.[13]
Its investments also include AliveCor, AltaRock Energy,[14] Amyris, AppNexus, Ayasdi, Big Switch
Networks,[15] Blockstream, Boku, Boosted, Bridge International Academies,[16] Cadre, Climate
Corporation, Cylance, DoorDash[17] and Flow Neuroscience.
As of October 2015, Khosla Ventures was one of the five largest and most active investors in the space
sector, which has had over US$10 billion of private capital invested in it since 2005.[18]
In September 2017, Khosla Ventures had about $5 billion in assets under management.[19]
Contents
History

2. In February 2021, Khosla Ventures filed plans for the public offerings of three Special-purpose acquisition
companies (SPAC), which intend to raise a total of $1.2 billion for the purpose of acquiring and taking
public three private companies.[20]
Affirm, a financial technology company, raised $1.2 billion in its initial public offering, which was the
largest U.S. filing of the year to date. The firm was its first venture capital investor.[21] In October 2021,
Khosla Ventures announced that it had raised $1.4 billion in funding to invest in early-to-late stage startups
breaking down to $400 million for seed deals and $1 billion for later-stage companies.[22] Through a
Khosla-backed SPAC, Nextdoor began trading under the ticker KIND in November 2021 with a $4.3
valuation by Khosla Ventures. The company was valued at $2.2 billion in 2019.[23]
Khosla Labs is an investment and business-incubation firm founded by Vinod Khosla. In 2013, Khosla said
that he started the company to explore the opportunities around Aadhar, the recently-implemented unique
identity number system for residents of India. Khosla Labs has an Aadhaar-enabled authentication and
verification product, called Aadhaar Bridge, and is licensed by the Unique Identification Authority of India
(UIDAI) (which collects the data for the system) to use the demographic data of Aadhar holders. The
company played an important role in the 'Coalition for Aadhar' by petitioning the Indian Supreme Court in
2018. There has been criticism around the private sector- UIDAI connections, and Khosla Lab has been
used an example. The company has had many executives who were previously part of UIDAI. Khosla
Labs has given a loan of ₹21 lakh to an NGO called eGovernments Foundation, of which Nandan
Nilekani himself was a founder. Besides Nilekani, Sanjay Jain, the chief product manager for the UIDAI
from 2010 to 2012 then went on to be an entrepreneur at Khosla Labs. Similarly, Vivek Raghavan was a
biometrics volunteer with UIDAI from 2010 to 2013, and he was a director of Khosla Labs until 2016.[24]
1. Lacy, Sarah (July 3, 2009). "Vinod Khosla, Risk Junkie" (https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/
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2. "Bloomberg Businessweek Profile" (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/priv
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3. Cheng, Candy. "Khosla Ventures has raised a new $1.4 billion fund to back startup winners
like DoorDash, Stripe, and Square" (https://archive.today/cE0or). Archived from the original
(https://www.businessinsider.com/khosla-ventures-raises-14-billion-to-back-technology-start
ups-2021-10) on October 26, 2021.
4. "Khosla Ventures Founder Vinod Khosla Joins Slush 2017 - Slush 2017" (http://www.slush.o
rg/news/khosla-ventures-founder-vinod-khosla-joins-slush-2017/). Slush 2017. 2017-11-28.
Retrieved 2018-01-07.
5. Marshall, Matt (3 March 2009). "Pierre Lamond, the VC who scared the YouTube guys, joins
Khosla" (https://venturebeat.com/2009/03/03/pierre-lamond-the-vc-who-scared-the-youtube-f
ounders-joins-khosla/). VentureBeat. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
6. Khosla Ventures piles up $1 billion for green tech (http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-1032
3028-54.html). cnet news, September 1, 2009
7. Venture Firm’s ‘Green’ Funds Top $1 Billion (https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/business/
01khosla.html). New York Times, August 31, 2009
8. Wauters, Robin (May 19, 2011). "Khosla Ventures Is Raising, Like, A Billion Dollars" (https://t
echcrunch.com/2011/05/19/khosla-ventures-is-raising-like-a-billion-dollars/). TechCrunch.
Khosla Labs
References

3. 9. "Ditch your checkbook: Plastiq nabs $10M so that you can pay for anything with a credit
card" (https://venturebeat.com/2014/07/15/ditch-your-checkbook-plastiq-nabs-10m-to-let-you
-pay-for-anything-with-a-credit-card/). VentureBeat. 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
10. "Archived copy" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130318113024/http://www.ls9.com/about/fou
nders). www.ls9.com. Archived from the original (http://www.ls9.com/about/founders) on 18
March 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
11. "Relcy Is Building A PageRank-Style Mobile App Search Engine With $9M From Khosla
And Sequoia" (https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/17/relcy-mobile-search). TechCrunch. 17
July 2014.
12. Darrell, Larry (9 October 2014). "Thync Raises $13 Million In Funding Led By Khosla
Ventures; Combines Neuroscience And Consumer Tech" (https://archive.today/2015021610
0142/http://www.bidnessetc.com/27041-thync-raises-13-million-in-funding-led-by-khosla-ven
tures-combines-neurosci). Bidnessetc. Archived from the original (http://www.bidnessetc.co
m/27041-thync-raises-13-million-in-funding-led-by-khosla-ventures-combines-neurosci) on
16 February 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
13. "Vectra raises $36 million for its AI cybersecurity technology" (https://venturebeat.com/2018/
02/21/vectra-raises-36-million-for-its-ai-cybersecurity-technology/#). 2018-02-21. Retrieved
2018-04-16.
14. "Khosla Ventures Investments" (https://golden.com/wiki/Khosla_Ventures). golden.com.
Retrieved 2019-04-29.
15. "Big Switch Networks Seals $13.75M" (https://www.venturecapitaljournal.com/big-switch-net
works-seals-1375m). April 25, 2011.
16. "Slum schools' investors in Sh5bn expansion bid" (https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/mar
kets/Slum-schools--investors-in-Sh5bn-expansion-bid-/539552-2064414-3ucd2kz/index.htm
l). Business Daily. 2013-11-07. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
17. "BRIEF-DoorDash raised $127 million in series C round of financing -..." (https://www.reuter
s.com/article/idUSFWN16U0NA) Reuters. 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
18. Nordrum, Amy (2015-10-09). "Space Advocate Makes Business Case For Private Company
Exploration Of Extraterrestrial Resources" (http://www.ibtimes.com/space-advocate-makes-b
usiness-case-private-company-exploration-extraterrestrial-2134171). International Business
Times. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
19. Kolodny, Lora (2017-09-07). "Khosla Ventures adds women to investment team — Simmons
and Gulati" (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/07/khosla-ventures-adds-women-to-investment-t
eam--simmons-and-gulati.html). www.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
20. Schubarth, Cromwell (13 February 2021). "Khosla Ventures gets into the SPAC boom with
plans to raise $1.2B in 3 IPOs" (https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2021/02/13/khosl
a-ventures-plans-to-raise-12b-for-3-spacs.html). Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved
9 March 2021.
21. "Affirm Holdings prices U.S. IPO above target range, raises $1.2 billion" (https://www.reuters.
com/article/us-affirm-holdings-ipo-idINKBN29I00E). Reuters. 12 January 2021.
22. Cheng, Candy (26 October 2021). "Khosla Ventures has raised a new $1.4 billion fund to
back startup winners like DoorDash, Stripe, and Square" (https://www.businessinsider.com/k
hosla-ventures-raises-14-billion-to-back-technology-startups-2021). Business Insider.
23. Bobrowsky, Meghan (8 November 2021). "Nextdoor Surges in Trading Debut" (https://www.
wsj.com/articles/nextdoor-to-complete-move-to-go-public-11636372800). Wall Street
Journal.
24. Thaker, Aria. "Aadhaar's mixing of public risk and private profit" (https://caravanmagazine.in/
reportage/aadhaar-mixing-public-risk-private-profit). The Caravan. Retrieved 2019-07-22.

4. Khosla Ventures Goes Retro for New Blood (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/khosla
-ventures-goes-retro-for-new-blood/). New York Times, March 3, 2009
Venture capital firm embraces green technology (https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/busin
ess/worldbusiness/31iht-wbspot01.1.17381685.html). New York Times: Spotlight
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