David Weiden
Founding Partner & Managing Director
Internet software, services and financial technology
LinkedIn profile ↗United States / Direct investor
Bold technology, from seed to scale.
Backing ambitious founders in software, AI, health, energy and frontier engineering, with hands-on help to build companies.
Connect Now2025 LP memo equity cheques$1M-$30M
ApproachSeed to growth
July 2026 fundraising talksUp to $5.5B target
Current published showcase115 companies
01 / The fund
Technical risk, large opportunities
Khosla Ventures backs technology-led businesses across consumer, enterprise, financial technology, frontier engineering, sustainability and healthcare. Its seed strategy asks founders to explain the science or business-model breakthrough, what has been proven, which risks remain, and what the next financing will do to reduce those risks.
The firm has separate seed, main venture and opportunity strategies. A New Jersey public-pension diligence memo dated April 24, 2025 describes equity cheques of $1M-$30M across the proposed Seed G, IX and Opportunity III suite. This is a dated LP-document range, not a newly confirmed 2026 firm-wide first-cheque promise. The memo distinguishes very early science projects, larger venture rounds and expansion-stage follow-ons. The official current seed page does not quote a numeric ticket.
Bloomberg’s July 23, 2026 report describes talks for up to $5.5B across a new suite: about $1B seed, $2B venture and $2.5B opportunity. The figures could change; this is a reported fundraising target, not capital already closed. An August 2026 University of Houston agenda names the next suite as X, Seed H and Opportunity IV while proposing an allocation. Its existing IX, Seed G and Opportunity III investments are listed separately.
Fund sizes in older 2025 fundraising articles and diligence documents describe different dates and vehicles. They are not added to the 2026 target or presented as a new final close. Venture assistance includes recruiting, engineering, strategy and company-building support, not a guarantee of an investment or a customer contract.
Official seed criteria ↗ · Dated LP diligence and cheque range ↗ · 2026 reported fundraising talks ↗02 / Portfolio
Explore by sector
115 unique companies across the current official portfolio and all eight category pages checked. This is the published showcase, not a complete all-time list of every Khosla investment. Sector groups below are DTT technology groupings. Official seed, early and growth labels describe the fund’s displayed investment stage, not a current open funding round. Public listings and acquisitions do not prove complete fund liquidity.
BioTech 39
A non-invasive brain interface designed to turn thoughts into text without typing or speaking.
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Official investment label: Early
Digital and AI-assisted care for pain and movement-related conditions.
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Official investment label: Early
Clinical AI for mental-health assessment, patient engagement and care support.
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Official investment label: Growth
AI software that turns medical conversations into clinical documentation.
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Official investment label: Early
Portable heart-monitoring devices and AI analysis of electrocardiograms.
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Official investment label: Seed
Personalised exercise and healthy-aging programmes for older adults.
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AI systems that help health organisations automate work across clinical and administrative systems.
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Official investment label: Early
Virtual primary care that combines clinicians with AI-assisted workflows.
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Official investment label: Seed
Voice AI for patient conversations and care management.
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Official investment label: Early
Mental-health services combining mindfulness, coaching and clinical care.
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Official investment label: Early
Health insurance supported by a technology platform for members, care and operations.
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Official investment label: Early
AI tools for radiology reports, impressions and patient follow-up.
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Official investment label: Seed
AI-assisted expert reports that help cancer patients understand their care options.
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Official investment label: Early
Care navigation and pharmacy-benefit services for employers and their members.
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Official investment label: Early
Lab-grown human tissues and automated experiments for studying drugs and disease.
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Official investment label: Seed
High-throughput DNA-sequencing systems designed to reduce the cost of reading genomes.
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Official investment label: Seed
Laboratory robots that automate liquid handling and other repetitive experimental tasks.
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Official investment label: Early
Diagnostic tests that read the immune system’s response to identify serious illness.
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Official investment label: Early
Blood-based tests and data tools for cancer detection, treatment and monitoring.
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Official investment label: Early
A non-invasive electrical-stimulation headset for treating depression under applicable medical rules.
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Official investment label: Early
Blood tests that use microbial DNA sequencing to help identify infections.
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Official investment label: Early
Automation and laboratory tools for in-vitro fertilisation and reproductive care.
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Official investment label: Early
Brain-interface and vision-restoration technologies, including retinal implants.
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Official investment label: Early
Implantable brain-computer interfaces designed to help people with paralysis use digital devices.
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Official investment label: Early
A developmental-care platform for extremely premature babies.
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Gene-correction therapies for serious genetic diseases, including sickle cell disease.
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Official investment label: Seed
Genetic medicines designed to modify cells directly inside the body.
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Official investment label: Early
Veterinary medicines being developed to extend healthy life in dogs.
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Official investment label: Seed
Automated manufacturing of personalised stem-cell therapies.
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Official investment label: Early
AI models and cell-engineering systems for understanding and controlling cell behaviour.
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Official investment label: Early
Genetically engineered animal organs designed to become suitable for human transplantation.
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Official investment label: Seed
A platform for developing individualised genetic medicines for small groups of patients.
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Automated chemistry and AI tools for discovering and manufacturing small molecules.
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Official investment label: Seed
Delivery technology designed to send genetic medicines to tissues beyond the liver.
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Official investment label: Early
Medicines that change how genes are regulated without changing the underlying DNA sequence.
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Official investment label: Seed
Engineered proteins and biological materials made using a wider range of chemical building blocks.
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Official investment label: Seed
Medicines targeting dysfunctional cells associated with aging and disease.
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Protein engineering and immunotherapy research for food allergies and gluten-related disorders.
Holding source ↗Energy & Materials 14
Official investment label: Early
Fusion-energy systems using powerful superconducting magnets to confine hot plasma.
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Official investment label: Seed
Lower-carbon cement made through a process that captures and reuses carbon dioxide.
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Official investment label: Seed
Automated small-vehicle public transit designed for high-capacity urban travel.
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Official investment label: Seed
Steel and iron-production technology designed to reduce emissions and production costs.
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Official investment label: Early
AI software for understanding underground geology and developing natural resources.
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Official investment label: Early
Computer vision and intelligent farm machinery for more precise agricultural work.
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Official investment label: Early
Engineered enzymes and cell-free production methods for making useful biological products.
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Official investment label: Early
Microbial fermentation that turns carbon-rich gases into fuels and chemicals.
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Official investment label: Early
Fuel-flexible electricity generators for data centres, utilities and industrial users.
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Official investment label: Early
Mineral production and processing designed around software and automation.
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Official investment label: Early
Geothermal systems that aim to tap heat from very hot underground rock.
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Official investment label: Seed
Solid-state lithium-metal batteries designed for electric vehicles and other energy uses.
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Official investment label: Seed
Compact fusion-energy technology for industrial heat and electricity.
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Official investment label: Early
Thermochemical storage that holds energy in materials and releases it as industrial heat.
Holding source ↗Physical AI 9
Official investment label: Early
Autonomous-driving technology for trucks, built around AI and simulation.
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Official investment label: Early
Autonomy software that lets different types of robots operate in changing environments.
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Official investment label: Seed
General-purpose AI models that help robots learn and perform physical tasks.
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Wheeled humanoid robots for physical work, combining AI with remote human supervision.
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Official investment label: Seed
AI-based navigation for mobile robots, including last-mile delivery systems.
Serve confirms acquisition completed in August 2025. Consideration included stock and warrants, including KV-held warrants; this is not labelled a complete cash exit.
Holding source ↗Semiconductors 2
Official investment label: Early
Analog computing technology designed to run AI workloads more efficiently.
Holding source ↗Quantum 1
Quantum computers built with neutral atoms, designed to keep computations reliable despite errors.
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Official investment label: Seed
Rocket launches, spacecraft and satellite components for commercial and government missions.
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Official investment label: Early
Spacecraft and re-entry systems for manufacturing products in orbit and returning them to Earth.
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Official investment label: Early
An on-demand platform connecting customers with restaurants, retailers and local delivery.
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Official investment label: Early
A smart mattress cover that controls bed temperature and tracks sleep.
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Official investment label: Early
A grocery marketplace with online ordering, retail software and delivery services.
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Official investment label: Early
AI tools that turn written instructions into working applications and websites.
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Official investment label: Early
A membership service that pairs homeowners with a regular handyman and scheduling software.
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Official investment label: Seed
Plant-based alternatives to meat, made with food science and protein engineering.
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Official investment label: Growth
An online reading and publishing platform that uses reader response to find and develop stories.
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An AI application builder that turns plain-language requests into websites and software.
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Official investment label: Seed
A higher-education platform designed around learning and working in an AI-driven economy.
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An AI language tutor for practicing spoken conversations without a live human tutor.
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An AI companion for ongoing conversations, personal reflection and everyday support.
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Official investment label: Early
AI software-development agents, including Devin, that can plan and carry out coding tasks.
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Official investment label: Seed
A Japanese AI research company developing models and methods inspired by nature and collective intelligence.
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Official investment label: Early
AI models and tools for text, images, audio, coding and automated work.
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Official investment label: Early
A shared software-development platform for code, security testing and release management.
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Official investment label: Seed
Cloud-based PostgreSQL databases with fast branching and serverless operation for apps and AI agents.
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Official investment label: Early
AI systems and implementation support for large companies changing their workflows.
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Official investment label: Early
AI agents that carry out accounting work, including client services, tax and audit tasks.
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Official investment label: Growth
An open-source database for fast analysis of large streams of business and application data.
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Official investment label: Early
AI-based endpoint protection that detects and prevents malicious software on devices.
The fund labels its historical exit to BlackBerry. Cylance endpoint assets later moved to Arctic Wolf in a completed February 2025 sale; current link is the acquirer confirmation, not BlackBerry’s generic homepage.
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AI coding agents that automate software-development tasks, including implementation and testing.
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A school curriculum platform combining teaching materials, classroom data and learning tools.
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Official investment label: Early
Software for running applications and data across private infrastructure and public clouds.
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Official investment label: Early
Identity and access-management tools that check who can use business applications.
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Official investment label: Seed
Web search, extraction and monitoring infrastructure designed for AI agents.
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Official investment label: Early
Voice AI agents that handle customer-service conversations over the phone.
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Official investment label: Growth
Data protection and recovery software for businesses responding to outages and cyberattacks.
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Official investment label: Early
Indian AI models and tools for speech, translation and applications across Indian languages.
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Official investment label: Early
AI tools that help lawyers draft, review and negotiate contracts.
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Cloud infrastructure and developer tools for deploying websites, applications and AI agents.
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Official investment label: Early
Financial technology businesses including merchant payments, consumer finance and digital-asset tools.
Fund directory still shows the former NYSE: SQ ticker. Current listing ticker is not independently re-verified here.
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Official investment label: Growth
Payment processing and financial infrastructure for internet businesses.
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Official investment label: Early
Credit products backed by home equity, designed to offer lower borrowing costs.
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Official investment label: Early
A payment platform that lets shoppers split purchases into instalments.
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Consumer cash advances and software for tracking spending and managing everyday finances.
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Official investment label: Growth
A platform that builds and operates co-branded credit-card programmes for businesses.
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A bank providing regulated infrastructure for financial-technology products.
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Official investment label: Growth
Corporate cards and software for expenses, bills, purchasing and business spending.
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A payment service that divides a large recurring bill into two scheduled payments.
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Official investment label: Early
An AI-based lending platform that helps banks and other lenders assess borrowers.
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Official investment label: Seed
AI world models designed to understand space, time and actions in virtual and physical environments.
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Official investment label: Early
High-speed aircraft development using rapid engineering and flight testing.
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Official investment label: Early
Aerospace and defence systems designed for lower-cost manufacturing at scale.
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Official investment label: Seed
Long-duration weather balloons and AI models that collect atmospheric data and improve forecasts.
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Investment team
Samir Kaul
Founding Partner & Managing Director
AI, advanced technology, health, sustainability and food
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Sven Strohband
Partner & Managing Director
Engineering-led technology, AI, space and enterprise infrastructure
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Vinod Khosla
Founder
AI, robotics, healthcare, energy and technology-driven company creation
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Jai Sajnani
Partner
Growth-stage fintech, healthcare, enterprise software and infrastructure
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Kanu Gulati
Partner
AI applications, infrastructure, robotics and autonomous systems
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Nicole Fraenkel
Partner & Head of Capital Formation
Frontier-AI investments, alongside capital-formation duties
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Rajesh Swaminathan
Partner
Energy, industrial decarbonisation, manufacturing and compute
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Tal Broda
Investment Partner
AI infrastructure, frontier computing and technical diligence
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Nessan Bermingham
Operating Partner
Biotech investing, company formation and board support
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Uri Greenwald
Operating Partner
Investment due diligence, new-company incubation and intellectual property
LinkedIn profile ↗Current official biographies and direct personal LinkedIn checks support these contacts. Nicole Fraenkel remains included despite capital-formation duties because her current official biography explicitly names investments she led. Nessan Bermingham has a supported biotech investment remit; Uri Greenwald’s biography explicitly includes investment due diligence and company incubation. Both retain their operating-partner titles. Trent Riggs is Chief of Staff, not promoted to investor just because the site groups him with investors. Engineering support, advisory-only operators, EIR, general counsel, CFO, platform, talent, marketing and investor-relations-only staff are excluded.
Official fund website ↗04 / Fund network
Limited partners
Named institutional backing, with existing investments separated from recommendations and approvals. No individual personal LP was independently verified. These LPs are not all claimed to back the newest 2026 suite.
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
Finalised fund commitments, July 2025
The official non-RFP register lists $18.75M Seed G, $27.75M IX and $28.5M Opportunity III, with contracts finalised July 3, 2025. These are commitments, not paid-in capital.
Investor source ↗University of Houston System Endowment
Existing LP; newer allocation proposed
An August 2026 agenda states the endowment already invests in IX, Seed G and Opportunity III. A separate proposed $12M allocation to X, Seed H and Opportunity IV is a recommendation, not treated here as executed.
Investor source ↗New Jersey Division of Investment
Existing relationship; 2025 suite proposed
The April 2025 diligence memo identifies KV as an existing manager and proposes up to $100M across Seed G, IX and Opportunity III. The recommendation alone is not represented as a completed new commitment.
Investor source ↗Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System
Reported approved commitment, IX
August 2025 reporting describes an approved $40M commitment to IX and earlier allocations to VII and VIII. Approval is not proof of cash paid into the fund.
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