KV
Khosla Ventures
Venture capital firm · Founded 2004 · Active in 2026
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.
Khosla Ventures’ biggest exits.
Khosla Ventures portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Khosla Ventures’ selected top holdings.
An estimate of Khosla Ventures’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 29 companies where Khosla Ventures is a named shareholder, worth about $8.7B in estimated equity value.
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1
Ramp
4%
$32.0B
$1.3B
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2
Faire
9.5%
$12.6B
$1.2B
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3
Impossible Foods
12%
$7.0B
$840M
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4
Sword Health
15.5%
$4.0B
$620M
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5
Aven
23%
$2.2B
$506M
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6
ThoughtSpot
11%
$4.2B
$462M
- 7 12.5% $3.0B $375M
- 8 2.5% $15.0B $375M
- 9 6% $4.6B $276M
- 10 6% $4.6B $276M
- 11 20% $1.1B $220M
- 12 18% $1.2B $216M
Showing the 12 largest of 29 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Khosla Ventures’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Khosla Ventures also appears inside investor groups in Lovable, OpenAI, Stripe, TerraPower, Webflow, Zetwerk, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
+9 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 113 Khosla Ventures Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA106
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India2
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Canada2
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Australia1
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Sweden1
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Japan1
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Fintech18
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AI17
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Other B2B Software13
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Health Tech & Medtech12
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Cybersecurity9
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eCommerce & Marketplaces7
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Biotech & Life Sciences6
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Marketing6
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Robotics5
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Other5
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Energy4
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Transportation3
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Series B+47
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Series A35
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Seed26
Khosla Ventures's 113 Power Law outcomes.
How does Khosla Ventures stack up?
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Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Khosla Ventures's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
372 founders across the 113 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.
Key people at Khosla Ventures.
Market sentiment
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