Khosla Ventures is a Menlo Park, California venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla. The firm backs bold, early, and impactful ventures, favoring contrarian deep-tech bets with world-class teams and a conviction-driven approach that deliberately accepts a high failure rate to capture transformative outcomes. Khosla invests across seed, early (Series A/B), and growth stages through its Seed Fund, Main Fund, and Opportunity (growth) Fund, writing checks that range from small seed positions to large growth rounds. Focus sectors span artificial intelligence, enterprise and consumer software, financial services and fintech, robotics and frontier/deep tech, aerospace and defense, climate and sustainability (clean energy, fusion, materials, agriculture), and digital health, medtech, diagnostics, and therapeutics. The firm manages roughly $16 billion in assets as of 2025 and is known for early investments in OpenAI, Stripe, Square/Block, DoorDash, Instacart, Affirm, Impossible Foods, GitLab, Okta, Rocket Lab, and QuantumScape. Headquarters are at 2128 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA, with a primarily United States geographic focus and select global investments.
Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.
Khosla Ventures has 125 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 125 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Stripe, OpenAI, Fireflies, Parallel, DevSecOps.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their
API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar3Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 117 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by
Khosla Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from
the catalog — nothing here is written.
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the
“Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own
coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
Artifact
This cohort
Catalog
Difference
MCP server (any)
15%
16%
-1
MCP server (first-party)
9%
7%
+2
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
9%
9%
0
Security
97%
88%
+9
Arazzo workflows
6%
2%
+4
Governance rules
14%
13%
+1
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
This roster declares 125 members; 117
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 117 carry a score
(100%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of
25 August 2026, across 26891
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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Khosla Ventures is a Menlo Park, California venture capital firm founded in 2004
by Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla. The firm backs bold, early, and
impactful ventures, favoring contrarian deep-tech bets with world-class teams and
a conviction-driven approach that deliberately accepts a high failure rate to
capture transformative outcomes. Khosla invests across seed, early (Series A/B),
and growth stages through its Seed Fund, Main Fund, and Opportunity (growth) Fund,
writing checks that range from small seed positions to large growth rounds. Focus
sectors span artificial intelligence, enterprise and consumer software, financial
services and fintech, robotics and frontier/deep tech, aerospace and defense,
climate and sustainability (clean energy, fusion, materials, agriculture), and
digital health, medtech, diagnostics, and therapeutics. The firm manages roughly
$16 billion in assets as of 2025 and is known for early investments in OpenAI,
Stripe, Square/Block, DoorDash, Instacart, Affirm, Impossible Foods, GitLab, Okta,
Rocket Lab, and QuantumScape. Headquarters are at 2128 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park,
CA, with a primarily United States geographic focus and select global investments.
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- 'AUM: approximately $16 billion (2025, third-party reported)'
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