Khosla Ventures
Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early-stage deep tech investments.
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“A $160 million Series A led by Altimeter, Accel and Khosla Ventures”
“raised a $30 million round from investors including Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew.”
Source→“a16z, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Coatue, General Catalyst, Peak XV, Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures, CRV and Kfund.”
“Arda, a manufacturing AI startup led by ex-OpenAI exec Bob McGrew, raised $232m in Series A funding at a $1.5b valuation. Altimeter Capital, Accel and Khosla Ventures led, joined by Felicis, XYZ Venture Capital, and 8VC.”
“Even Healthcare, an Indian hospital care startup, raised $50m in Series B funding at a $300m valuation. Khosla Ventures led, joined by Alpha Wave.”
“Sabi... Raises $50M Seed Round from Accel Partners, Ascend Venture Capital, Collab Fund, Khosla Ventures, DST Global, Initialized Capital Management”
“Sabi... translates imagined speech and intent into commands for AI without implants or surgery, raised a $50 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures... with Accel, Initialized Capital, Kevin Weil, DST Global, Collaborative Fund, and Ascend also pitching in.”
Source→“Quantum computer builder Oratomic raised a $475 million Series B led by Arch Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, General Catalyst and Bezos Expeditions, at a valuation of $5.4 billion.”
Source→“Oatomic, a Pasadena, Calif.-based quantum computing startup, raised $475m in Series A funding at a $5.4b valuation from Arch Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, and Bezos Expeditions.”
“goes on Twitter. The wording was like struggling second tier competitor, absolute demolition job of Matan.”
Source→“Raises $700M from Khosla Ventures, Emerson Collective - Builds a universal general-purpose software brain for autonomous robots, humanoids, and drones”
“Vinci, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based chip simulation startup, raised $250m in Series B funding at a $1.5b valuation. Advent International, Temasek, and Xora led, joined by AMD Ventures, Eclipse, Khosla Ventures, and Madrona.”
“Hertha Metals is building single-step iron and steel production that skips coal-fired blast furnaces... The Series A includes a sizable U.S. government equity stake tied to industrial-base goals.”
“Khosla Ventures was an early investor in OpenAI, and has dozens of other AI portfolio companies.”
“raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation this month from Khosla Ventures, Blackstone, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, and others”
Source→“raised $251m in a Series D. Lux Capital and Natural Capital led, joined by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures...”
“Hertha Metals, a Conroe, Texas-based green steel producer, raised $134m in Series A funding... which included $65m from the U.S. government.”
“Raises $155M Series E Round from Khosla Ventures, Francisco Partners”
“Vinod Khosla - One of Parallel's first investors and board members”
Source→“Tal Broda — Former VP of Compute at OpenAI, now joining Khosla Ventures as partner”
“Keith Rabois, Khosla Ventures investor, was a featured interview guest.”
Source→“Factory — AI coding agent developer. Secured a $200 million round at a $5 billion valuation from investors including Khosla Ventures, Blackstone and Sequoia.”
Source→“Khosla Ventures is officially opening a New York office this fall (its first ever beyond Sand Hill Road).”
Source→“deploys human-supervised AI agents to infiltrate encrypted criminal and hostile online networks for intelligence, military, and law enforcement agencies, raised a $20.8 million round co-led by Khosla Ventures and XYZ Venture Capital.”
Source→“Aslan | AI-powered law enforcement intelligence, 1 year old, Washington D.C. | Raised $20.8M co-led by Khosla and XYZ VC; "deploys human-supervised AI agents to infiltrate criminal forums... and collect digital evidence for law enforcement"”
Source→“Keith Rabois — Featured StrictlyVC event speaker; prominent venture voice.”
Source→“Beck moves to the US, raises a $5M Series A led by Khosla Ventures.”
“Sonic Fire Tech ($15M seed from Khosla Ventures; NASA-inspired novel fire suppression technology)”
“Khosla Ventures were the first folks to put in some venture capital into the entity... Khosla put $5 million in for the Series A round”
Source→“Rabois just moved to New York (watch out, New York!) and is anything but boring company”
Source→“Rabois just moved to New York (watch out, New York!) and is anything but boring company”
Source→“I think Khosla is also phenomenal. I mean, Vinod with Avin and, you know, his companies, they did amazing. I think Khosla is in that group. I mean, they're just going to crush it.”
Source→“Veeda AI, a world model startup founded by former Nvidia AI researchers, secured $90 million in seed financing from investors including Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures.”
Source→“While framed as a personal relocation story about Keith Rabois, the deeper news is that Khosla Ventures is opening its first office outside Silicon Valley, in New York... signals that New York's startup ecosystem has matured.”
Source→“Rabois has quietly relocated to New York City, where he'll soon help open the firm's first office outside of Silicon Valley... [which] also reflects startup strength in New York.”
Source→“Veeda AI raised a $90+ million seed round to build world models for physical AI systems — an extraordinary amount for a company founded the same year”
Source→“Adrian Radu, at Khosla Ventures, published a Cost Per Headcount analysis that tracks reported acquihire and acquisition deal values per employee from 2013 to 2026.”
Source→“The going rate per head for elite AI researchers has increased by roughly 8x in a decade, from ~$15M to over $100M per person in frontier-era deals.”
Source→“Corma raised $60M in Seed funding, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue.”
Source→“It must be extraordinarily validating, if you're Jeff Dean, to leave as a non-CEO of a two or three trillion dollar market cap public company and have the stock go down by a couple of hundred billion dollars.”
Source→“I think Vinod's leading the round, right? Or co-leading the round or something. So he's just redoing. He already, granted, OpenAI hasn't gone public, but he's already had a little bit of a win here, right? That guy, Vinod, right? So he's just doing the playbook again.”
Source→“I think Vinod's leading the round, right? Or co-leading the round or something. So he's just redoing. He already, granted, OpenAI hasn't gone public, but he's already had a little bit of a win here, right? That guy, Vinod, right? So he's just doing the playbook again.”
Source→“Windborne Systems Raises $37M Series B Round from Lux Capital Management, Khosla Ventures”
“Corma, a frontier AI lab for defensive cybersecurity, raised $60m in seed funding. Sequoia Capital led, joined by Khosla Ventures and Coatue.”
“Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures have already backed it, alongside Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Doerr Capital, and Google itself.”
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