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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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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x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
tags:
- Venture Capital
- Seed
- Series A
- Growth Equity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Deep Tech
- Fintech
- Climate
- Digital Health
- Frontier Tech
- United States
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
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data:
- 'Stage: Seed, Early (Series A/B), Growth'
- 'Funds: Seed Fund, Main Fund, Opportunity (growth) Fund'
- 'Sectors: AI, enterprise/consumer software, fintech, robotics, frontier/deep tech, aerospace and defense, climate and sustainability, digital health and therapeutics'
- 'Geography: United States (primary), select global'
- 'AUM: approximately $16 billion (2025, third-party reported)'
- 'Founded: 2004'
- 'Founder: Vinod Khosla'
- 'HQ: 2128 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025'
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- https://www.khoslaventures.com/
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updated: '2026-07-17'
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