Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Based in Menlo Park, California, the firm manages over $5 billion and primarily invests in early-stage technology companies throughout the United States. Khosla Ventures provides capital, strategic advice, and venture assistance to entrepreneurs focused on breakthrough innovations across various sectors, including consumer technology, enterprise solutions, health, education, agriculture, and sustainable energy. The firm has a particular interest in high-risk, high-reward opportunities, often acting as a sole investor in "science or innovation experiments." Investment sizes typically range from $100,000 to over $20 million, allowing Khosla Ventures to support both traditional ventures and unconventional projects.

Bruce Armstrong

Operating Partner

Irene Au

Angel

Ryno Blignaut

Operating Partner

Alice Brooks

Partner

Peter Buckland

Partner, Managing Director and COO

Benny Buller

Investment Professional

Brian Byun

Operating Partner

Catherine Casuga

Operating Partner

Kanu Gulati

Partner

Emmanuel T. Hernandez

Operating Partner

Judy Huang

Operating Partner

Keith Janosky

Chief Financial Officer and Head of Investor Relations

Jun Jeon

Principal

Samir Kaul

Founding Partner & Managing Director

Paul Kirincich

Operating Partner

Alexander A. Morgan

Partner

Alexander Morgan Ph.D

Partner

Hesam Motlagh

Chief of Staff

Keith Rabois

Managing Director

Nikita Shamgunov

Partner & Investor

Sven Strohband Ph.D

Managing Director

Rajesh Swaminathan

Partner

Adina Tecklu

Partner

Sandhya Venkatachalam

Partner

David Weiden

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Ece Wyrick

Principal

Past deals in AR and VR

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 company based in Charlestown, Massachusetts, that specializes in developing virtual reality software designed for minimally invasive surgical procedures. The company has created a surgical system that integrates virtual reality technology with robotic systems, allowing surgeons to perform operations with enhanced precision and control. Founded in 2014, Vicarious Surgical aims to improve surgical outcomes and patient recovery times through innovative technology.

Arevo

Venture Round in 2021
AREVO, based in Silicon Valley, California, develops technology to enable direct digital additive manufacturing of ultra-strong, lightweight composite parts for end use applications in high volume. With the company's unique combination of breakthrough materials, powerful design/build software, and free motion robotics for the first “true 3D” construction, AREVO is moving beyond prototypes by enabling the design and fabrication of large, mass-produced parts and structures, quickly leading 3D printing into mainstream manufacturing. AREVO provides designers and manufacturers with unprecedented freedom to unlock the unparalleled strength and weight of composite materials for a wide range of consumer and industrial products, and has seen early success manufacturing CFRTP composite parts for OEM customers. With an initial focus on Aerospace, Defense, Consumer Electronics, Transportation, and Consumer Goods, Arevo is poised to optimize additive manufacturing services to OEM’s worldwide.

Arevo

Series B in 2020
AREVO, based in Silicon Valley, California, develops technology to enable direct digital additive manufacturing of ultra-strong, lightweight composite parts for end use applications in high volume. With the company's unique combination of breakthrough materials, powerful design/build software, and free motion robotics for the first “true 3D” construction, AREVO is moving beyond prototypes by enabling the design and fabrication of large, mass-produced parts and structures, quickly leading 3D printing into mainstream manufacturing. AREVO provides designers and manufacturers with unprecedented freedom to unlock the unparalleled strength and weight of composite materials for a wide range of consumer and industrial products, and has seen early success manufacturing CFRTP composite parts for OEM customers. With an initial focus on Aerospace, Defense, Consumer Electronics, Transportation, and Consumer Goods, Arevo is poised to optimize additive manufacturing services to OEM’s worldwide.

Vicarious Surgical

Series A in 2020
Vicarious Surgical Inc. is a company based in Charlestown, Massachusetts, that specializes in developing virtual reality software designed for minimally invasive surgical procedures. The company has created a surgical system that integrates virtual reality technology with robotic systems, allowing surgeons to perform operations with enhanced precision and control. Founded in 2014, Vicarious Surgical aims to improve surgical outcomes and patient recovery times through innovative technology.

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.

Vicarious Surgical

Series B in 2019
Vicarious Surgical Inc. is a company based in Charlestown, Massachusetts, that specializes in developing virtual reality software designed for minimally invasive surgical procedures. The company has created a surgical system that integrates virtual reality technology with robotic systems, allowing surgeons to perform operations with enhanced precision and control. Founded in 2014, Vicarious Surgical aims to improve surgical outcomes and patient recovery times through innovative technology.

Jido Inc.

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.

Arevo

Series B in 2018
AREVO, based in Silicon Valley, California, develops technology to enable direct digital additive manufacturing of ultra-strong, lightweight composite parts for end use applications in high volume. With the company's unique combination of breakthrough materials, powerful design/build software, and free motion robotics for the first “true 3D” construction, AREVO is moving beyond prototypes by enabling the design and fabrication of large, mass-produced parts and structures, quickly leading 3D printing into mainstream manufacturing. AREVO provides designers and manufacturers with unprecedented freedom to unlock the unparalleled strength and weight of composite materials for a wide range of consumer and industrial products, and has seen early success manufacturing CFRTP composite parts for OEM customers. With an initial focus on Aerospace, Defense, Consumer Electronics, Transportation, and Consumer Goods, Arevo is poised to optimize additive manufacturing services to OEM’s worldwide.

Vicarious Surgical

Series A in 2018
Vicarious Surgical Inc. is a company based in Charlestown, Massachusetts, that specializes in developing virtual reality software designed for minimally invasive surgical procedures. The company has created a surgical system that integrates virtual reality technology with robotic systems, allowing surgeons to perform operations with enhanced precision and control. Founded in 2014, Vicarious Surgical aims to improve surgical outcomes and patient recovery times through innovative technology.

Vicarious Surgical

Venture Round in 2016
Vicarious Surgical Inc. is a company based in Charlestown, Massachusetts, that specializes in developing virtual reality software designed for minimally invasive surgical procedures. The company has created a surgical system that integrates virtual reality technology with robotic systems, allowing surgeons to perform operations with enhanced precision and control. Founded in 2014, Vicarious Surgical aims to improve surgical outcomes and patient recovery times through innovative technology.

Arevo

Series A in 2016
AREVO, based in Silicon Valley, California, develops technology to enable direct digital additive manufacturing of ultra-strong, lightweight composite parts for end use applications in high volume. With the company's unique combination of breakthrough materials, powerful design/build software, and free motion robotics for the first “true 3D” construction, AREVO is moving beyond prototypes by enabling the design and fabrication of large, mass-produced parts and structures, quickly leading 3D printing into mainstream manufacturing. AREVO provides designers and manufacturers with unprecedented freedom to unlock the unparalleled strength and weight of composite materials for a wide range of consumer and industrial products, and has seen early success manufacturing CFRTP composite parts for OEM customers. With an initial focus on Aerospace, Defense, Consumer Electronics, Transportation, and Consumer Goods, Arevo is poised to optimize additive manufacturing services to OEM’s worldwide.

Avametric

Series A in 2016
Avametric, Inc., a fashion software company, develops cloth simulation technology that creates digital garments for the fashion and apparel industries. The company’s platform reproduces real world equivalents from the estimates of body size and shape measurements that users share online. Its technology enables brands to deliver 3D renderings of their apparel and accessories on customizable digital body models for web, mobile, and AR. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of October 4, 2018, Avametric, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Gerber Technology LLC.

Avametric

Series A in 2015
Avametric, Inc., a fashion software company, develops cloth simulation technology that creates digital garments for the fashion and apparel industries. The company’s platform reproduces real world equivalents from the estimates of body size and shape measurements that users share online. Its technology enables brands to deliver 3D renderings of their apparel and accessories on customizable digital body models for web, mobile, and AR. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of October 4, 2018, Avametric, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Gerber Technology LLC.

Avametric

Seed Round in 2014
Avametric, Inc., a fashion software company, develops cloth simulation technology that creates digital garments for the fashion and apparel industries. The company’s platform reproduces real world equivalents from the estimates of body size and shape measurements that users share online. Its technology enables brands to deliver 3D renderings of their apparel and accessories on customizable digital body models for web, mobile, and AR. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of October 4, 2018, Avametric, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Gerber Technology LLC.