Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is a venture capital firm that provides strategic advice, capital, and support to bold entrepreneurs across various sectors. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in areas such as artificial intelligence, climate technology, sustainability, enterprise solutions, consumer products, fintech, digital health, medical technology, and therapeutics. Khosla Ventures is particularly interested in innovative solutions that address significant socio-economic challenges and enhance productivity, especially for low-income populations and small businesses in emerging markets. The firm embraces experimentation and is open to investing in unconventional and high-risk ventures, often acting as the sole investor in groundbreaking projects. With a commitment to fostering impactful entrepreneurship, Khosla Ventures seeks to create value through technological advancements and creative business models, with a special emphasis on markets in South Asia.

Bruce Armstrong

Partner

Alex Bentley

Partner and Investor

Blignaut, Ryno

Operating Partner

Alice Brooks

Principal

Peter Buckland

General Partner and COO

Byun, Brian

Venture Partner

Catherine Casuga

Operating Partner

Jon Chu

Partner and Investor

Ece Erdagoz

Principal

Bryan Gartner

Partner

Kanu Gulati

Partner

Judy Huang

Operating Partner

Khosla, Vinod

Managing Director

Kelly Kinnard

Operating Partner

Alexander Morgan

Partner

Arash Rebek JD

Partner, Capital Formation

Jessy Rivest

Partner and Investor

Scanlan, Leah

Operating Partner

Nikita Shamgunov

Partner

Sven Strohband Ph.D

Managing Director

Rajesh Swaminathan

Partner

David Weiden

Managing Director

Ece Wyrick

Principal and Investor

Adam Coates Ph.D

Operating Partner

Kanupriya Gulati Ph.D

Partner and Investor

Past deals in Biofuel

LanzaTech

Series D in 2014
LanzaTech is turning our global carbon crisis into a feedstock opportunity with the potential to displace 30% of crude oil use today and reduce global CO2 emissions by 10%. By recycling carbon from industrial off-gases; syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g. municipal solid waste (MSW), organic industrial waste, agricultural waste); and reformed biogas, LanzaTech can reduce emissions and make new products for a circular carbon economy. LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your yoga pants started life as pollution from a steel mill. This future is possible using LanzaTech technology.

LanzaTech

Series C in 2013
LanzaTech is turning our global carbon crisis into a feedstock opportunity with the potential to displace 30% of crude oil use today and reduce global CO2 emissions by 10%. By recycling carbon from industrial off-gases; syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g. municipal solid waste (MSW), organic industrial waste, agricultural waste); and reformed biogas, LanzaTech can reduce emissions and make new products for a circular carbon economy. LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your yoga pants started life as pollution from a steel mill. This future is possible using LanzaTech technology.

Kior

Post in 2013
At KIOR.com, we support and celebrate the story of you—for now, forever, and whatever’s in-between. Our technology develops in your hands to promote beauty on the inside and outside. We know how important confidence is. No matter who you are—whether you’re a man, a woman; Black, white, or brown; hurting or healing—we’re here to ensure that you have the tools you need to be beautiful and confident… We live and breathe in technological innovation. From the ergonomic design of the laser hair removal device whose work you've seen before, to the arduous research that we have done, we celebrate the wonderful, and creative scientist who design the device for us. Each time you purchase a KIOR™, the world has one more confident soul.

Coskata

Debt Financing in 2013
Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol from a wide variety of input materials to provide economic, environmental, and national security benefits.

Transonic Combustion

Series D in 2012
Founded in 2006, Transonic Combustion's TSCi™ fuel injection systems provide global automotive manufacturers with high efficiency fuel delivery technology for their modern engine platforms. The company is backed by Venrock, Khosla Ventures, Rustic Canyon, and Saints Capital. Transonic Combustion is headquartered in Camarillo, Calif.

Segetis

Series C in 2012
Segetis, Inc., a green chemistry company, engages in the development, production, and commercialization of renewable polymers. The company focuses on a platform of binary monomers based on renewable feed stocks. The company's technology enables the use of non-food agricultural and forestry feed stocks for the production of various materials, as well as enables the second wave of industrial bioproducts, such as bio-plastics, surfactants, plasticizers, adhesives, coalescent solvents, and other compounds for specialty chemical applications. Its chemistries offer various opportunities for product enablement and synergies for industries engaged in the processing of starch and sugar crops; processing of wood, cellulose, and paper pulp; chemical processing of vegetable oils; manufacturing of biodiesel; and the manufacturing of linear alpha-olefins and other compounds. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Golden Valley, Minnesota.

EcoMotors

Series C in 2012
Established in early 2008 EcoMotors is quickly achieving critical mass in terms of changing the landscape of conventional internal combustion powertrains. Based in Allen Park, Mich., EcoMotors is developing high-efficiency liquid fuel engines — specifically the unique OPOC™ (Opposed Piston Opposed Cylinder) engine — for use in cars, light trucks, marine applications, essentially anywhere conventional gas or diesel powertrains are utilized.

Virdia

Debt Financing in 2012
Virdia, formerly known as HCL CleanTech, specializes in the development of cellulosic sugars and lignin derived from lignocellulosic biomass for applications in renewable chemicals, bio-energy, and nutrition. The company utilizes its proprietary CASE™ process, which efficiently converts a variety of feedstocks, including wood, energy crops, and agricultural residues, into refined sugars and lignin. This innovative, low-temperature method maximizes sugar yields while maintaining a minimal environmental impact through the nearly complete recycling of acids and solvents used during production. Virdia is guided by an experienced management team with extensive backgrounds in corn processing, chemicals, and biochemicals.

Kior

Post in 2012
At KIOR.com, we support and celebrate the story of you—for now, forever, and whatever’s in-between. Our technology develops in your hands to promote beauty on the inside and outside. We know how important confidence is. No matter who you are—whether you’re a man, a woman; Black, white, or brown; hurting or healing—we’re here to ensure that you have the tools you need to be beautiful and confident… We live and breathe in technological innovation. From the ergonomic design of the laser hair removal device whose work you've seen before, to the arduous research that we have done, we celebrate the wonderful, and creative scientist who design the device for us. Each time you purchase a KIOR™, the world has one more confident soul.

Coskata

Series D in 2011
Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol from a wide variety of input materials to provide economic, environmental, and national security benefits.

LS9

Series D in 2010
LS9, the Renewable Petroleum Company, is a privately-held industrial biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California developing patent-pending UltraClean fuels and sustainable chemicals made with the power of synthetic biology.

Coskata

Series D in 2010
Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol from a wide variety of input materials to provide economic, environmental, and national security benefits.

Kior

Private Equity Round in 2010
At KIOR.com, we support and celebrate the story of you—for now, forever, and whatever’s in-between. Our technology develops in your hands to promote beauty on the inside and outside. We know how important confidence is. No matter who you are—whether you’re a man, a woman; Black, white, or brown; hurting or healing—we’re here to ensure that you have the tools you need to be beautiful and confident… We live and breathe in technological innovation. From the ergonomic design of the laser hair removal device whose work you've seen before, to the arduous research that we have done, we celebrate the wonderful, and creative scientist who design the device for us. Each time you purchase a KIOR™, the world has one more confident soul.

LanzaTech

Series B in 2010
LanzaTech is turning our global carbon crisis into a feedstock opportunity with the potential to displace 30% of crude oil use today and reduce global CO2 emissions by 10%. By recycling carbon from industrial off-gases; syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g. municipal solid waste (MSW), organic industrial waste, agricultural waste); and reformed biogas, LanzaTech can reduce emissions and make new products for a circular carbon economy. LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your yoga pants started life as pollution from a steel mill. This future is possible using LanzaTech technology.

EcoMotors

Series B in 2010
Established in early 2008 EcoMotors is quickly achieving critical mass in terms of changing the landscape of conventional internal combustion powertrains. Based in Allen Park, Mich., EcoMotors is developing high-efficiency liquid fuel engines — specifically the unique OPOC™ (Opposed Piston Opposed Cylinder) engine — for use in cars, light trucks, marine applications, essentially anywhere conventional gas or diesel powertrains are utilized.

Gevo

Series D in 2010
Gevo brings renewable and cost-effective fossil fuel alternatives to consumers worldwide will be absolutely essential to meet increasing energy demands and save their earth from global warming. Gevo focuses on the production of isobutanol.

Segetis

Series B in 2010
Segetis, Inc., a green chemistry company, engages in the development, production, and commercialization of renewable polymers. The company focuses on a platform of binary monomers based on renewable feed stocks. The company's technology enables the use of non-food agricultural and forestry feed stocks for the production of various materials, as well as enables the second wave of industrial bioproducts, such as bio-plastics, surfactants, plasticizers, adhesives, coalescent solvents, and other compounds for specialty chemical applications. Its chemistries offer various opportunities for product enablement and synergies for industries engaged in the processing of starch and sugar crops; processing of wood, cellulose, and paper pulp; chemical processing of vegetable oils; manufacturing of biodiesel; and the manufacturing of linear alpha-olefins and other compounds. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Golden Valley, Minnesota.

Nordic Windpower

Series C in 2010
Nordic’s N1000, a simple, light-weight 1MW wind turbine is known for its unsurpassed ease of installation and maintenance, exceptional reliability, and low cost of energy generation. Nordic Windpower is a technology developer and manufacturer of innovative, two-bladed wind turbines for the rapidly expanding global wind market.

LS9

Series C in 2009
LS9, the Renewable Petroleum Company, is a privately-held industrial biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California developing patent-pending UltraClean fuels and sustainable chemicals made with the power of synthetic biology.

Amyris

Series C in 2009
Amyris Biotechnologies creates renewable products that focus on fuels and chemicals that provide no-compromise sustainable alternatives to a broad range of petroleum-sourced products. It uses an industrial synthetic biology platform that applies its innovative bioscience solutions to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon molecules and produce specialty ingredients and consumer products. Its technology creates products that support biopharmaceutical drug discovery and production, from cosmetic emollients and fragrances to fuels, solvents, lubricants, and nutraceuticals.

Gevo

Venture Round in 2009
Gevo brings renewable and cost-effective fossil fuel alternatives to consumers worldwide will be absolutely essential to meet increasing energy demands and save their earth from global warming. Gevo focuses on the production of isobutanol.

Virdia

Series A in 2009
Virdia, formerly known as HCL CleanTech, specializes in the development of cellulosic sugars and lignin derived from lignocellulosic biomass for applications in renewable chemicals, bio-energy, and nutrition. The company utilizes its proprietary CASE™ process, which efficiently converts a variety of feedstocks, including wood, energy crops, and agricultural residues, into refined sugars and lignin. This innovative, low-temperature method maximizes sugar yields while maintaining a minimal environmental impact through the nearly complete recycling of acids and solvents used during production. Virdia is guided by an experienced management team with extensive backgrounds in corn processing, chemicals, and biochemicals.

Transonic Combustion

Series C in 2009
Founded in 2006, Transonic Combustion's TSCi™ fuel injection systems provide global automotive manufacturers with high efficiency fuel delivery technology for their modern engine platforms. The company is backed by Venrock, Khosla Ventures, Rustic Canyon, and Saints Capital. Transonic Combustion is headquartered in Camarillo, Calif.

Coskata

Series C in 2008
Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol from a wide variety of input materials to provide economic, environmental, and national security benefits.

Amyris

Series B in 2008
Amyris Biotechnologies creates renewable products that focus on fuels and chemicals that provide no-compromise sustainable alternatives to a broad range of petroleum-sourced products. It uses an industrial synthetic biology platform that applies its innovative bioscience solutions to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon molecules and produce specialty ingredients and consumer products. Its technology creates products that support biopharmaceutical drug discovery and production, from cosmetic emollients and fragrances to fuels, solvents, lubricants, and nutraceuticals.

Kior

Series B in 2008
At KIOR.com, we support and celebrate the story of you—for now, forever, and whatever’s in-between. Our technology develops in your hands to promote beauty on the inside and outside. We know how important confidence is. No matter who you are—whether you’re a man, a woman; Black, white, or brown; hurting or healing—we’re here to ensure that you have the tools you need to be beautiful and confident… We live and breathe in technological innovation. From the ergonomic design of the laser hair removal device whose work you've seen before, to the arduous research that we have done, we celebrate the wonderful, and creative scientist who design the device for us. Each time you purchase a KIOR™, the world has one more confident soul.

Firefly Energy

Series C in 2008
[Firefly Energy](http://www.fireflyenergy.com/) is a developer of lead-acid battery technologies. The company's first applied technology is a microcell foam-based battery technology. Firefly Energy was launched as a spin-out from Caterpillar on May 1, 2003.

Gevo

Series C in 2008
Gevo brings renewable and cost-effective fossil fuel alternatives to consumers worldwide will be absolutely essential to meet increasing energy demands and save their earth from global warming. Gevo focuses on the production of isobutanol.

Mascoma

Series C in 2008
Mascoma Corporation was founded in late 2005 with initial funding from Khosla Ventures and Flagship Ventures in early 2006. A Series B round of funding was closed in November of 2006 and a Series C round of funding was closed in May of 2008. They wish to replace the use of gasoline with cellulosic ethanol.

Range Fuels

Series C in 2008
Range Fuels is a privately held company funded primarily by greentech venture capital companies, including Khosla Ventures, LLC, arguably the top venture firm in the U.S. focusing on alternative, clean energy systems. Their leadership team melds experience from the technologically intensive oil, chemical, petrochemical, coal gasification, power and gas-to-liquids industries, the renewable fuel industry, and the pulp and paper industry.

Range Fuels

Series B in 2008
Range Fuels is a privately held company funded primarily by greentech venture capital companies, including Khosla Ventures, LLC, arguably the top venture firm in the U.S. focusing on alternative, clean energy systems. Their leadership team melds experience from the technologically intensive oil, chemical, petrochemical, coal gasification, power and gas-to-liquids industries, the renewable fuel industry, and the pulp and paper industry.

Coskata

Series B in 2008
Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol from a wide variety of input materials to provide economic, environmental, and national security benefits.

Transonic Combustion

Series B in 2008
Founded in 2006, Transonic Combustion's TSCi™ fuel injection systems provide global automotive manufacturers with high efficiency fuel delivery technology for their modern engine platforms. The company is backed by Venrock, Khosla Ventures, Rustic Canyon, and Saints Capital. Transonic Combustion is headquartered in Camarillo, Calif.

EcoMotors

Series A in 2008
Established in early 2008 EcoMotors is quickly achieving critical mass in terms of changing the landscape of conventional internal combustion powertrains. Based in Allen Park, Mich., EcoMotors is developing high-efficiency liquid fuel engines — specifically the unique OPOC™ (Opposed Piston Opposed Cylinder) engine — for use in cars, light trucks, marine applications, essentially anywhere conventional gas or diesel powertrains are utilized.

Kior

Series A in 2007
At KIOR.com, we support and celebrate the story of you—for now, forever, and whatever’s in-between. Our technology develops in your hands to promote beauty on the inside and outside. We know how important confidence is. No matter who you are—whether you’re a man, a woman; Black, white, or brown; hurting or healing—we’re here to ensure that you have the tools you need to be beautiful and confident… We live and breathe in technological innovation. From the ergonomic design of the laser hair removal device whose work you've seen before, to the arduous research that we have done, we celebrate the wonderful, and creative scientist who design the device for us. Each time you purchase a KIOR™, the world has one more confident soul.

LS9

Series B in 2007
LS9, the Renewable Petroleum Company, is a privately-held industrial biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California developing patent-pending UltraClean fuels and sustainable chemicals made with the power of synthetic biology.

Amyris

Series B in 2007
Amyris Biotechnologies creates renewable products that focus on fuels and chemicals that provide no-compromise sustainable alternatives to a broad range of petroleum-sourced products. It uses an industrial synthetic biology platform that applies its innovative bioscience solutions to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon molecules and produce specialty ingredients and consumer products. Its technology creates products that support biopharmaceutical drug discovery and production, from cosmetic emollients and fragrances to fuels, solvents, lubricants, and nutraceuticals.

Gevo

Series B in 2007
Gevo brings renewable and cost-effective fossil fuel alternatives to consumers worldwide will be absolutely essential to meet increasing energy demands and save their earth from global warming. Gevo focuses on the production of isobutanol.

Segetis

Series A in 2007
Segetis, Inc., a green chemistry company, engages in the development, production, and commercialization of renewable polymers. The company focuses on a platform of binary monomers based on renewable feed stocks. The company's technology enables the use of non-food agricultural and forestry feed stocks for the production of various materials, as well as enables the second wave of industrial bioproducts, such as bio-plastics, surfactants, plasticizers, adhesives, coalescent solvents, and other compounds for specialty chemical applications. Its chemistries offer various opportunities for product enablement and synergies for industries engaged in the processing of starch and sugar crops; processing of wood, cellulose, and paper pulp; chemical processing of vegetable oils; manufacturing of biodiesel; and the manufacturing of linear alpha-olefins and other compounds. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Golden Valley, Minnesota.

LanzaTech

Series A in 2007
LanzaTech is turning our global carbon crisis into a feedstock opportunity with the potential to displace 30% of crude oil use today and reduce global CO2 emissions by 10%. By recycling carbon from industrial off-gases; syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g. municipal solid waste (MSW), organic industrial waste, agricultural waste); and reformed biogas, LanzaTech can reduce emissions and make new products for a circular carbon economy. LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your yoga pants started life as pollution from a steel mill. This future is possible using LanzaTech technology.

Brenco

Venture Round in 2007
Brenco is a renewable energy company, implementing industrial plants to produce ethanol and electricity from sugar cane in Brazil. Current projects are greenfield sites in the midwest region of Brazil. Brenco was founded on 2007 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Gevo

Series A in 2007
Gevo brings renewable and cost-effective fossil fuel alternatives to consumers worldwide will be absolutely essential to meet increasing energy demands and save their earth from global warming. Gevo focuses on the production of isobutanol.

LS9

Series A in 2007
LS9, the Renewable Petroleum Company, is a privately-held industrial biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California developing patent-pending UltraClean fuels and sustainable chemicals made with the power of synthetic biology.

Mascoma

Series B in 2006
Mascoma Corporation was founded in late 2005 with initial funding from Khosla Ventures and Flagship Ventures in early 2006. A Series B round of funding was closed in November of 2006 and a Series C round of funding was closed in May of 2008. They wish to replace the use of gasoline with cellulosic ethanol.

Amyris

Series A in 2006
Amyris Biotechnologies creates renewable products that focus on fuels and chemicals that provide no-compromise sustainable alternatives to a broad range of petroleum-sourced products. It uses an industrial synthetic biology platform that applies its innovative bioscience solutions to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon molecules and produce specialty ingredients and consumer products. Its technology creates products that support biopharmaceutical drug discovery and production, from cosmetic emollients and fragrances to fuels, solvents, lubricants, and nutraceuticals.

Range Fuels

Series A in 2006
Range Fuels is a privately held company funded primarily by greentech venture capital companies, including Khosla Ventures, LLC, arguably the top venture firm in the U.S. focusing on alternative, clean energy systems. Their leadership team melds experience from the technologically intensive oil, chemical, petrochemical, coal gasification, power and gas-to-liquids industries, the renewable fuel industry, and the pulp and paper industry.

Mascoma

Series A in 2006
Mascoma Corporation was founded in late 2005 with initial funding from Khosla Ventures and Flagship Ventures in early 2006. A Series B round of funding was closed in November of 2006 and a Series C round of funding was closed in May of 2008. They wish to replace the use of gasoline with cellulosic ethanol.

GreatPoint Energy

Series B in 2006
GreatPoint Energy is a technology-driven natural resources company and the developer of a proprietary, highly-efficient catalytic process known as hydromethanation, by which coal, petroleum coke, and biomass are converted directly into low-cost, clean, pipeline-quality natural gas, while allowing for the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2). Hydromethanation yields dramatically improved economics for the production of natural gas and an environmental footprint equivalent to that of the most environmentally friendly commercial fuel.

Gevo

Series A in 2005
Gevo brings renewable and cost-effective fossil fuel alternatives to consumers worldwide will be absolutely essential to meet increasing energy demands and save their earth from global warming. Gevo focuses on the production of isobutanol.
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