Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early, and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technology.

Bruce Armstrong

Partner

Brian Byun

Venture Partner

Kanu Gulati

Partner

Nikita Shamgunov

Partner

Past deals in Image Recognition

Splash

Series A in 2021
Splash develops AI-powered video games that lets anyone create and perform music to live audiences inside virtual venues.

Akasha Imaging

Series A in 2020
Akasha Imaging is a deep imaging technology company combining computational imaging and deep learning to deliver high-resolution 3D images.

WaveOne

Series A in 2020
WaveOne is building the next generation of digital media compression. They are leveraging the latest advancements in machine learning and deep learning to create custom-tailored, context-dependent solutions.

WaveOne

Series A in 2020
WaveOne is building the next generation of digital media compression. They are leveraging the latest advancements in machine learning and deep learning to create custom-tailored, context-dependent solutions.

Caption Health

Series B in 2020
Caption Health will use this funding to scale up its commercial operations, continue to develop its AI technology platform and form new partnerships. As more providers adopt the Caption AI platform, the company plans to add new clinical capabilities to expand the use of Caption AI in additional care settings.

HeartVista

Series A in 2020
HeartVista is a medical technology company that provides one-click diagnostic imaging. It brought in machine learning to make the scanning process faster, easier, and more consistent. Its platform leverages existing scanners and contains all of the mri tools needed for a comprehensive cardiac examination, with just one click.

Rosebud AI

Seed Round in 2020
Rosebud is building the AI Roblox. We will make it dramatically easier for a community to create and enjoy the games of their dreams.

Compound Eye

Series A in 2018
Compound Eye Inc develops 3D vision systems for autonomous machines.

Playform

Venture Round in 2018
Artrendex, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2016 and based in East Windsor, New Jersey. It specializes in providing innovative solutions for artists, galleries, and collectors by quantifying aesthetic concepts that have traditionally been considered subjective. The company's technology focuses on visual analytics, enabling it to predict style changes and trends based on historical data. This capability addresses the needs of a vast art market valued at over $64 billion, particularly in the context of art as an investment. Artrendex's system includes an application programming interface that analyzes paintings at the stroke level, capturing the unique characteristics of individual strokes. This allows artists, creators, and designers to train their own AI models with fewer images, enhancing their ability to navigate and understand the art market.

Cape Analytics

Series B in 2018
Cape Analytics uses deep learning and geospatial imagery to provide instant property intelligence for buildings across the United States. Cape Analytics enables insurers and other property stakeholders to access valuable property attributes at the time of underwriting—with the accuracy and detail that traditionally required an on-site inspection, but with the speed and coverage of property record pre-fill.

Zebra Medical Vision

Series C in 2018
Zebra Medical Vision’s imaging analytics platform allows healthcare institutions to identify patients at risk of disease and offer improved preventative treatment pathways to advance patient care. The company is funded by Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, Intermountain Investment Fund, OurCrowd Qure, Aurum, aMoon, Nvidia, J&J, and Dolby Ventures. Zebra Medical Vision has raised $52 million in funding to date and was named a Fast Company Top-5 AI and Machine Learning company. Zebra-Med leads the way in AI FDA cleared products, and is installed in hospitals globally, from Australia to India, Europe to the U.S, and the LATAM region.

Sagence AI

Series A in 2018
Sagence AI is a semiconductor company developing products in the neural computing segment. They enable server-class networks to be deployed with extremely low latency in cost-effective edge devices. Its unique technology performs data-center-grade AI workloads at orders of magnitude lower power.

Splash

Seed Round in 2018
Splash develops AI-powered video games that lets anyone create and perform music to live audiences inside virtual venues.

Owlcam

Series A in 2018
Owl Cameras Inc. develops and manufactures security camera for cars. The company's product enables car owners to capture different actions including car crashes, stops, break-in the vehicle, and any other thing in and around the vehicle. It offers software capabilities as well as the hardware for its product. The company provides constant connectivity, 24-hour video storage, and video alerts to user's phone features. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Ever

Series B in 2017
Leveraging the latest advances in deep learning, Paravision’s industry-leading Vision AI software is trusted globally by security device manufacturers, solution providers, systems integrators and financial services firms to deliver frictionless experiences and comprehensive safety and security. From the latest in Edge AI platforms to cloud-ready solutions, Paravision powers computer vision-centric solutions with modular, highly scalable toolsets that deliver breakthrough capabilities under the most challenging conditions. Paravision has developed deep expertise in face recognition specifically and strives to consistently raise the bar for face recognition technology in accuracy, security, inclusion and convenience. Paravision has consistently ranked among the top global performers in NIST’s gold standard Face Recognition Technology Evaluations, including 1:1 Verification, 1:N Identification, Face Mask Effects and Paperless Travel, and matches these benchmarks with breakthrough performance in a wide variety of identity-centric applications around the world.

Vicarious

Series C in 2017
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company that uses the computational principles of the brain to develop general intelligence for robots. The company was founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix.

MDalgorithms

Seed Round in 2017
MDAlgorithms uses smart algorithms, computer vision, and AI to provide real time mobile tools for people with health disorders. The company's mission is to disrupt the old physician centric medical system and put the patient in the center.

Caption Health

Series A in 2016
Caption Health will use this funding to scale up its commercial operations, continue to develop its AI technology platform and form new partnerships. As more providers adopt the Caption AI platform, the company plans to add new clinical capabilities to expand the use of Caption AI in additional care settings.

WaveOne

Seed Round in 2016
WaveOne is building the next generation of digital media compression. They are leveraging the latest advancements in machine learning and deep learning to create custom-tailored, context-dependent solutions.

Cape Analytics

Series A in 2016
Cape Analytics uses deep learning and geospatial imagery to provide instant property intelligence for buildings across the United States. Cape Analytics enables insurers and other property stakeholders to access valuable property attributes at the time of underwriting—with the accuracy and detail that traditionally required an on-site inspection, but with the speed and coverage of property record pre-fill.

Zebra Medical Vision

Series B in 2016
Zebra Medical Vision’s imaging analytics platform allows healthcare institutions to identify patients at risk of disease and offer improved preventative treatment pathways to advance patient care. The company is funded by Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, Intermountain Investment Fund, OurCrowd Qure, Aurum, aMoon, Nvidia, J&J, and Dolby Ventures. Zebra Medical Vision has raised $52 million in funding to date and was named a Fast Company Top-5 AI and Machine Learning company. Zebra-Med leads the way in AI FDA cleared products, and is installed in hospitals globally, from Australia to India, Europe to the U.S, and the LATAM region.

Zebra Medical Vision

Seed Round in 2015
Zebra Medical Vision’s imaging analytics platform allows healthcare institutions to identify patients at risk of disease and offer improved preventative treatment pathways to advance patient care. The company is funded by Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, Intermountain Investment Fund, OurCrowd Qure, Aurum, aMoon, Nvidia, J&J, and Dolby Ventures. Zebra Medical Vision has raised $52 million in funding to date and was named a Fast Company Top-5 AI and Machine Learning company. Zebra-Med leads the way in AI FDA cleared products, and is installed in hospitals globally, from Australia to India, Europe to the U.S, and the LATAM region.

Caption Health

Seed Round in 2015
Caption Health will use this funding to scale up its commercial operations, continue to develop its AI technology platform and form new partnerships. As more providers adopt the Caption AI platform, the company plans to add new clinical capabilities to expand the use of Caption AI in additional care settings.

MetaMind

Venture Round in 2014
Starting with automated image recognition — MetaMind was founded to explore positive and impactful applications for artificial intelligence. We believe AI is only beneficial when it works to simplify the complexity of our daily lives. It is this notion which inspires us to produce technology which is reliable, trustworthy, and easy to use.

Vicarious

Series B in 2014
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company that uses the computational principles of the brain to develop general intelligence for robots. The company was founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix.

Scaled Inference

Series A in 2014
Scaled Inference their platform enables their customers to enhance and enable their software systems and products like (websites, mobile apps, servers, etc.).

Vicarious

Series B in 2014
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company that uses the computational principles of the brain to develop general intelligence for robots. The company was founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix.

Jetpac

Series A in 2012
Jetpac provides mobile travel recommendations by combining image processing, big data, mobile and social technology. The Jetpac City Guides iPhone app gives city guides for over 6000 cities around the world, from image processing of the world's Instagram photos.

HeartVista

Seed Round in 2012
HeartVista is a medical technology company that provides one-click diagnostic imaging. It brought in machine learning to make the scanning process faster, easier, and more consistent. Its platform leverages existing scanners and contains all of the mri tools needed for a comprehensive cardiac examination, with just one click.

Post Intelligence

Series A in 2010
Post Intelligence (Pi) is the world’s first AI-based social media assistant. Pi helps users make great posts and gain followers by creating a deep learning model just for them. Pi learns what you post about and what works well with your audience. Once it understands you and your posting patterns, Pi will suggest great content, optimal times and even personalized topics, so you will always have something to say. The best part is that Pi's skills get better with time, so the more you use it, the better it will get. Pi helps brands manage and optimize their social media. Influencers earn revenue by sharing relevant sponsored content suggested by Pi. More than 1.5m social media influencers used Pi and made over $100m in advertising revenue. As part of PI, we developed Candid, newsfeed app that used deep learning for moderation. The newsfeed app was used by more than 2m users. More about Candid - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candid_(app) Post Intelligence got acquired by Uber in 2017
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