Venture Capital

Khosla Ventures

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.

125 portfolio companies 125 publish APIs here 10 properties
Venture CapitalSeedSeries AGrowth EquityArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechFintechClimateDigital HealthFrontier TechUnited States
Portfolio Strength across 125 profiled portfolio companies on the network
12 top-rated API companies 6 exemplar · 6 strong
21 agent-ready companies 2 agent-native · 19 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite emerging 21.9
Agent-Readiness human-only 11.4

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, DevSecOps, Okta, Parallel, OpenAI.

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.

Exemplar 6 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 11 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
Emerging 29 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 63 Almost no public developer surface

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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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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