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Khosla Ventures

Venture capital firm · Menlo Park, USA · Founded 2004 · Active in 2026

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109 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #14 · 109 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Enterprise value ↑ 95% 5y
$1.2T
Unicorns ↑ 47% 5y
100
Decacorns ↓ 7% 5y
14
Thoroughbreds ↑ 54% 5y
106
Featured in #14Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 Top 0.5%by Seed → $100M+ revenue outcomes

Khosla Ventures was founded in Menlo Park in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and a former general partner at Kleiner Perkins. The firm takes contrarian, long-cycle bets in deep tech: climate, energy, biotech, AI, and frontier infrastructure. Khosla often frames the thesis around "people who think the impossible is possible."

Notable bets include OpenAI (early lead), Stripe, DoorDash, and Square.

Portfolio analysis

The 109 Khosla Ventures Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue and above).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA103
  2. India2
  3. Canada2
  4. Sweden1
  5. Japan1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech17
  2. AI16
  3. Other B2B Software13
  4. Health Tech & Medtech12
  5. Cybersecurity9
  6. eCommerce & Marketplaces7
  7. Biotech & Life Sciences6
  8. Other5
  9. Marketing5
  10. Robotics4
  11. Energy4
  12. Transportation3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+43
  2. Series A35
  3. Seed26
01 · Portfolio market map

Khosla Ventures's 109 Power Law outcomes.

Toggle between a sector landscape and a world map. Both views respond to the stage and outcome-tier filters. The faded names at the bottom of bigger boxes are part of the full list — click "+ N more" to reveal them.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
109 of 109 Power Law outcomes
Logos hosted by Dealroom; click any chip to open the company in app.dealroom.co. The dot inside each chip shows the company's highest tier — red Gigacorn, violet Centicorn/Decacorn, lavender Unicorn, blue Thoroughbred, green Colt. Tiers are inclusive: a Unicorn (e.g. Klarna) also matches the Thoroughbred filter, a Decacorn also matches Unicorn and Thoroughbred, and so on up the ladder. Colt is a separate axis (high-growth, smaller revenue) and only matches itself. Map dots use the same colour code; hover for details. Sectors are mutually exclusive (priority-ordered classification). Stage entered = the round Khosla Ventures first invested in (where data is available — coverage 93%).
02 · Origin of portfolio founders

Where Khosla Ventures's founders come from — and where they study.

363 founders across the 109 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States135
India59
Portugal17
Russia11
Romania9
Canada8
Germany8
South Africa7
Nigeria6
China6
+23 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University25
Massachusetts Institute of Technology19
Harvard University10
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi9
Berkeley8
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg6
University of Aveiro5
University of Waterloo5
EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne5
University of California, San Diego5
+119 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google32
Microsoft23
Meta13
Uber7
Amazon7
Yahoo!5
PayPal5
Nutanix3
Docker3
Stripe3
+141 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company. Explore the full Sequoia infographic on Thoroughbreds & Unicorns →
03 · Key people

Key people at Khosla Ventures.

Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla
Founder
Forbes Midas 2025 · #6
OpenAI
 Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois
General Partner
Forbes Midas 2025 · #17
Stripe
Photos sourced from public partner pages (firm websites + Wikipedia). Roster and Midas ranks are sourced from the official Forbes 2025 Midas List (compiled by Forbes & TrueBridge Capital Partners). Notable-deal attributions are the most-cited public lead deal for each partner; corrections welcome at [email protected].
04 · Compare with peers

How does Khosla Ventures stack up?

Khosla Ventures in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — filter by region or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of global unicorns minted that year — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Share of new unicorns per year

% of all global unicorns minted that year, year by year
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

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Data as of 15 Apr 2026 · Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset · Methodology
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