Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The firm manages over $5 billion and focuses on investing in a diverse range of sectors, including consumer technology, enterprise solutions, education, healthcare, financial services, agriculture, sustainable energy, and robotics. Khosla Ventures provides not only capital but also strategic guidance to entrepreneurs, particularly in early-stage ventures, where it often supports innovative and unconventional projects. The firm seeks to back companies that are driven by breakthrough technologies, with investment sizes ranging from $100,000 to over $20 million. Khosla Ventures maintains a collaborative approach, frequently co-investing with other firms, including Kleiner Perkins, with which it has historical ties.

Alex Bentley

Partner and Investor

Ryno Blignaut

Operating Partner

Alice Brooks

Principal

Peter Buckland

COO, Partner, and Managing Director

Brian Byun

Operating Partner

Catherine Casuga

Operating Partner

Jonathan Chu

Partner and Investor

Jon Chu

Partner

Ece Erdagoz

Principal

Kanu Gulati

Partner

Judy Huang

Operating Partner

Jun Jeon

Principal

Kelly Kinnard

Operating Partner

Alexander Morgan

Partner

Nicholas Moryl

Associate

Arash Rebek

Partner, Capital Formation

Jessy Rivest

Partner and Investor

Jai Sajnani

Partner

Robbie Schwietzer

Operating Partner

Nikita Shamgunov

Partner and Investor

Sven Strohband

Managing Director

Rajesh Swaminathan

Partner and Investor

Adina Tecklu

Partner and Investor

Sandhya Venkatachalam

Partner

David Weiden

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Reze Wong

Partner

Ece Wyrick

Principal and Investor

Adam Coates Ph.D

Operating Partner

Kanupriya Gulati Ph.D

Partner and Investor

Past deals in Virtual Reality

Mojo Vision

Series C in 2023
Mojo Vision is a company based in Saratoga, California, that specializes in augmented reality products and platforms. Founded in 2015, it has developed a smart contact lens featuring a built-in display that provides timely information without disrupting the user's focus. This innovative technology enables users to receive immediate and relevant information, facilitating hands-free communication and interaction. By minimizing the distractions associated with traditional mobile devices, Mojo Vision aims to enhance connectivity and accessibility for users in various environments.

Light Field Lab

Series B in 2023
Light Field Lab, Inc. is a technology startup focused on developing holographic capture display systems. Founded in 2017 and based in San Jose, California, the company creates innovative solutions that generate three-dimensional holographic images that can be viewed from multiple angles without the need for head-mounted devices. Its technology aims to project 3D holograms into living spaces, allowing users to experience immersive visuals that respond dynamically to their viewpoint. Additionally, Light Field Lab offers integrated processing and imaging solutions designed to deliver these visuals over commercial network speeds. The company is also working on a universal application programming interface to facilitate the adaptation of existing content for its holographic displays. With a mission to enable a holographic future, Light Field Lab seeks to unlock new business opportunities across both consumer and enterprise markets.

Remio

Seed Round in 2022
Remio delivers a pre-configured VR headset to each team member and hosts the entire team for fun team-building experiences. Known as one of "the most fun ways to connect business teams", the VR HQ also offers collaboration tools such as whiteboarding, Jira project planning, and presentation rooms.

Vicarious Surgical

Post in 2021
Vicarious Surgical Inc. is a Massachusetts-based company that specializes in developing a robotic system for minimally invasive surgery, integrating virtual reality technology to enhance surgical precision. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on creating a surgical robot that allows surgeons to perform procedures with improved 3D visualization and accurate control. The Vicarious Surgical Robotic System is specifically designed for abdominal access and utilizes a single port for entry, aiming to streamline surgical processes and improve patient outcomes.

Statespace

Series C in 2021
StateSpace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and eSport athletes to maximize their potential. It uses cognitive science and artificial intelligence to revolutionize the way humans improve. Leveraging expertise as neuroscientists, data scientists, video game developers, and computer visionaries, the products bring much needed standardized performance analytics to train. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Avvir

Series A in 2021
Avvir unleashes the latent potential of BIM technology by finally closing the feedback loop and keeping building models continuously up-to-date. This enables construction teams to closely monitor progress and catch mistakes before major rework is required. We achieve this by automating the processes around data acquisition, visualization, and analysis, so that BIM updates can be made in hours rather than weeks.

Quell

Seed Round in 2020
Quell, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2020 that specializes in developing an immersive fitness gaming platform. The platform combines gaming with physical exercise, allowing users to engage in high-intensity, resistance-based workouts while navigating a fantasy world. By utilizing smart resistance bands and built-in sensor gauntlets, Quell provides an innovative way for players to achieve their fitness goals through combat-style gameplay. The company offers a subscription model to keep its content fresh, positioning itself as a unique blend of fitness and gaming, akin to the concept of "Peloton meets gaming." Quell aims to make fitness engaging and accessible from the comfort of home.

Statespace

Series B in 2020
StateSpace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and eSport athletes to maximize their potential. It uses cognitive science and artificial intelligence to revolutionize the way humans improve. Leveraging expertise as neuroscientists, data scientists, video game developers, and computer visionaries, the products bring much needed standardized performance analytics to train. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Vicarious Surgical

Series A in 2020
Vicarious Surgical Inc. is a Massachusetts-based company that specializes in developing a robotic system for minimally invasive surgery, integrating virtual reality technology to enhance surgical precision. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on creating a surgical robot that allows surgeons to perform procedures with improved 3D visualization and accurate control. The Vicarious Surgical Robotic System is specifically designed for abdominal access and utilizes a single port for entry, aiming to streamline surgical processes and improve patient outcomes.

Statespace

Series A in 2020
StateSpace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and eSport athletes to maximize their potential. It uses cognitive science and artificial intelligence to revolutionize the way humans improve. Leveraging expertise as neuroscientists, data scientists, video game developers, and computer visionaries, the products bring much needed standardized performance analytics to train. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Mojo Vision

Series B in 2020
Mojo Vision is a company based in Saratoga, California, that specializes in augmented reality products and platforms. Founded in 2015, it has developed a smart contact lens featuring a built-in display that provides timely information without disrupting the user's focus. This innovative technology enables users to receive immediate and relevant information, facilitating hands-free communication and interaction. By minimizing the distractions associated with traditional mobile devices, Mojo Vision aims to enhance connectivity and accessibility for users in various environments.

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. Using AI to control the scanner minimizes the need for breath-holds, making MRI exams available for a broader base of patients and conditions.

Rosebud AI

Seed Round in 2020
Rosebud AI, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco that specializes in developing software for creating digital avatars and models tailored for various purposes. Their platform enables users to customize avatars based on demographic factors, age, and style, making visual content creation more accessible. The company aims to democratize visual storytelling for brands of all sizes, leveraging artificial intelligence to simplify the process of generating game assets and other digital visuals. Additionally, Rosebud AI facilitates the creation of non-fungible token (NFT) collections without requiring users to have extensive technical knowledge of smart contracts or Web3 technologies. By combining traditional computer graphics techniques with advanced AI research, the company empowers creators to animate historical photos and enhance artistic expression.

Light Field Lab

Series A in 2019
Light Field Lab, Inc. is a technology startup focused on developing holographic capture display systems. Founded in 2017 and based in San Jose, California, the company creates innovative solutions that generate three-dimensional holographic images that can be viewed from multiple angles without the need for head-mounted devices. Its technology aims to project 3D holograms into living spaces, allowing users to experience immersive visuals that respond dynamically to their viewpoint. Additionally, Light Field Lab offers integrated processing and imaging solutions designed to deliver these visuals over commercial network speeds. The company is also working on a universal application programming interface to facilitate the adaptation of existing content for its holographic displays. With a mission to enable a holographic future, Light Field Lab seeks to unlock new business opportunities across both consumer and enterprise markets.

Tempo

Series A in 2019
Tempo designs and develops a home fitness platform with personal guidance to help users in their training sessions. It features live elite trainers who can help users when they make mistakes. It has built-in three-dimensional sensors that track form, counts reps, and recommend weights. It helps users to improve in real-time. Powered by 3D motion sensors and AI, it analyzes 25 of the body’s essential joints as users work out and gives understood form feedback. Moawia Eldeeb and Joshua Augustin founded it as Pivot in 2015, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Avvir

Seed Round in 2019
Avvir unleashes the latent potential of BIM technology by finally closing the feedback loop and keeping building models continuously up-to-date. This enables construction teams to closely monitor progress and catch mistakes before major rework is required. We achieve this by automating the processes around data acquisition, visualization, and analysis, so that BIM updates can be made in hours rather than weeks.

Avvir

Seed Round in 2019
Avvir unleashes the latent potential of BIM technology by finally closing the feedback loop and keeping building models continuously up-to-date. This enables construction teams to closely monitor progress and catch mistakes before major rework is required. We achieve this by automating the processes around data acquisition, visualization, and analysis, so that BIM updates can be made in hours rather than weeks.

Vicarious Surgical

Series B in 2019
Vicarious Surgical Inc. is a Massachusetts-based company that specializes in developing a robotic system for minimally invasive surgery, integrating virtual reality technology to enhance surgical precision. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on creating a surgical robot that allows surgeons to perform procedures with improved 3D visualization and accurate control. The Vicarious Surgical Robotic System is specifically designed for abdominal access and utilizes a single port for entry, aiming to streamline surgical processes and improve patient outcomes.

Mojo Vision

Series A in 2018
Mojo Vision is a company based in Saratoga, California, that specializes in augmented reality products and platforms. Founded in 2015, it has developed a smart contact lens featuring a built-in display that provides timely information without disrupting the user's focus. This innovative technology enables users to receive immediate and relevant information, facilitating hands-free communication and interaction. By minimizing the distractions associated with traditional mobile devices, Mojo Vision aims to enhance connectivity and accessibility for users in various environments.

Openwater

Seed Round in 2018
Openwater designs and develops MRI-resolution wearables that medical diagnoses and treatments, and a new era of fluid and affordable brain-to-computer communications to consumer electronics manufacturing facilities and techniques. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Jido

Seed Round in 2018
Jido is bringing in the next wave of AR where digital content can have a shared and persistent life in the real world. Our API uses intimate understanding of a users spatial context to preserve AR experiences across users and devices. Our research team came out of the Stanford Artifical Intelligence Labs and the Cornell Robot Learning Lab.

Vicarious Surgical

Series A in 2018
Vicarious Surgical Inc. is a Massachusetts-based company that specializes in developing a robotic system for minimally invasive surgery, integrating virtual reality technology to enhance surgical precision. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on creating a surgical robot that allows surgeons to perform procedures with improved 3D visualization and accurate control. The Vicarious Surgical Robotic System is specifically designed for abdominal access and utilizes a single port for entry, aiming to streamline surgical processes and improve patient outcomes.

Light Field Lab

Seed Round in 2018
Light Field Lab, Inc. is a technology startup focused on developing holographic capture display systems. Founded in 2017 and based in San Jose, California, the company creates innovative solutions that generate three-dimensional holographic images that can be viewed from multiple angles without the need for head-mounted devices. Its technology aims to project 3D holograms into living spaces, allowing users to experience immersive visuals that respond dynamically to their viewpoint. Additionally, Light Field Lab offers integrated processing and imaging solutions designed to deliver these visuals over commercial network speeds. The company is also working on a universal application programming interface to facilitate the adaptation of existing content for its holographic displays. With a mission to enable a holographic future, Light Field Lab seeks to unlock new business opportunities across both consumer and enterprise markets.

vicarious

Series C in 2017
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company focuses on developing general intelligence for robots by leveraging the computational principles of the human brain. Vicarious aims to tackle significant challenges in the field of AI, fostering a culture that values intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and passion among its team members.

Vicarious Surgical

Venture Round in 2016
Vicarious Surgical Inc. is a Massachusetts-based company that specializes in developing a robotic system for minimally invasive surgery, integrating virtual reality technology to enhance surgical precision. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on creating a surgical robot that allows surgeons to perform procedures with improved 3D visualization and accurate control. The Vicarious Surgical Robotic System is specifically designed for abdominal access and utilizes a single port for entry, aiming to streamline surgical processes and improve patient outcomes.

Tempo

Seed Round in 2015
Tempo designs and develops a home fitness platform with personal guidance to help users in their training sessions. It features live elite trainers who can help users when they make mistakes. It has built-in three-dimensional sensors that track form, counts reps, and recommend weights. It helps users to improve in real-time. Powered by 3D motion sensors and AI, it analyzes 25 of the body’s essential joints as users work out and gives understood form feedback. Moawia Eldeeb and Joshua Augustin founded it as Pivot in 2015, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

vicarious

Series B in 2014
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company focuses on developing general intelligence for robots by leveraging the computational principles of the human brain. Vicarious aims to tackle significant challenges in the field of AI, fostering a culture that values intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and passion among its team members.

vicarious

Series B in 2014
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company focuses on developing general intelligence for robots by leveraging the computational principles of the human brain. Vicarious aims to tackle significant challenges in the field of AI, fostering a culture that values intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and passion among its team members.

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. Using AI to control the scanner minimizes the need for breath-holds, making MRI exams available for a broader base of patients and conditions.
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