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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.

120 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #12 · Global · 120 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 62% 5y
104
Decacorns ↓ 7% 5y
14
Thoroughbreds ↑ 92% 5y
79
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia 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.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 120 Khosla Ventures Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA112
  2. India3
  3. UK1
  4. Brazil1
  5. Japan1
  6. Sweden1
  7. Canada1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech21
  2. AI20
  3. Health Tech & Medtech13
  4. Other B2B Software12
  5. Cybersecurity10
  6. Biotech & Life Sciences7
  7. eCommerce & Marketplaces7
  8. Robotics6
  9. Other5
  10. Marketing5
  11. Energy4
  12. Transportation3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+47
  2. Series A36
  3. Seed27
Estimated holdings

Khosla Ventures’ biggest current 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.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 RampFintech · Decacorn 4% $32.0B $1.3B
  2. 2 FaireHome Living · Decacorn 9.5% $12.6B $1.2B
  3. 3 Impossible FoodsFood · Unicorn 12% $7.0B $840M
  4. 4 Sword HealthHealth · Unicorn 15.5% $4.0B $620M
  5. 5 AvenFintech · Unicorn 23% $2.2B $506M
  6. 6 ThoughtSpotEnterprise Software · Unicorn 11% $4.2B $462M
  7. 7 12.5% $3.0B $375M
  8. 8 2.5% $15.0B $375M
  9. 9 6% $4.6B $276M
  10. 10 6% $4.6B $276M
  11. 11 20% $1.1B $220M
  12. 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 →

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.

IPO · 2014
Entered SeedNow $182B
$4.1B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $77.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $67.6B
$41.9B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $4.2B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $39.4B
$23.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $28.4B
$18.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $4.7B
$1.6B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $16.4B
$1.2B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $14.0B
$12.4B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $13.2B
$2.2B IPO · 2016
Entered Series B+Now $12.4B
$11.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $3.3B
$9.9B IPO · 2023
Entered SeedNow $9.0B
IPO · 2010
Entered Series B+Now $7.0B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series ANow $4.8B
$4.3B IPO · 2021
Now $543M
$1.8B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $4.0B
$1.7B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $3.7B
$3.3B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series A
$2.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $310M
$2.6B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
$1.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $2.5B
$2.1B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
$1.8B acquisition · 2018
Entered Seed

+8 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

Khosla Ventures's 120 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
120 of 120 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Khosla Ventures stack up?

Khosla Ventures in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location 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 unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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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.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

364 founders across the 120 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 States134
India51
Portugal17
Germany12
Russia11
Romania8
Canada8
South Africa7
Nigeria6
China6
+23 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University27
Massachusetts Institute of Technology15
Harvard University14
Berkeley8
Harvard Business School7
University of Waterloo6
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi6
University of Aveiro5
University of Southern California5
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania5
+123 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google31
Microsoft30
Meta13
Uber8
Yahoo!7
Amazon6
PayPal6
Stripe4
Nutanix4
LinkedIn3
+144 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.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Khosla Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Khosla Ventures on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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Latest news about Khosla Ventures

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