Khosla Ventures

Venture Capital

Profile

Founded
2004
Headquarters
Menlo Park, US
Investments
67
Companies
25

Capital

Total Deployed
$16.5B
Lead Rounds
16

Portfolio

25 companies
OpenAI $167.9B
Private San Francisco, US

AI research company building artificial general intelligence, creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and the OpenAI API platform.

Stripe $7.9B
Private San Francisco, US

Online payment processing and financial infrastructure platform

Instacart $2.9B
Public San Francisco, US

Online grocery delivery and pick-up platform connecting customers with personal shoppers. One of the largest grocery technology companies in the US.

DoorDash $2.5B
Public San Francisco, US

On-demand food delivery platform connecting consumers with local restaurants and stores, operating as the largest food delivery service in the United States with over 56% market share.

Ramp $2.3B
Private New York, US

Corporate card and spend management platform that helps businesses save money on expenses. Combines corporate cards with software for expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, and procurement. Known for its rapid growth, reaching $100M ARR in under 3 years.

Faire $1.6B
Private San Francisco, US

Online wholesale marketplace connecting independent brands with independent retailers. Retailers discover and buy from over 100,000 brands with free returns, net-60 payment terms, and data-driven recommendations.

Affirm $1.5B
Public San Francisco, US

Affirm is a financial technology company that provides buy now, pay later (BNPL) services, offering consumers transparent installment payment options at the point of sale. Founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, it is the largest U.S.-based BNPL platform.

Opendoor $1.3B
Public San Francisco, United States

Opendoor is a digital real estate platform that pioneered the iBuying model, enabling homeowners to sell their homes online with instant cash offers. The company uses data science and pricing algorithms to buy, renovate, and resell residential homes.

ClickHouse $1.1B
Private San Francisco, US

Open-source columnar database management system designed for real-time analytics and AI workloads. Originally developed at Yandex and open-sourced in 2016, it became an independent company in 2021.

Vercel $863M
Private San Francisco, US

Frontend cloud platform and creator of Next.js

Checkr $679M
Private San Francisco, US

AI-powered background check platform that modernizes the hiring process for companies of all sizes, serving over 100,000 customers including Uber, DoorDash, and Instacart.

Block $590M
Public San Francisco, US

Financial technology company (formerly Square) building economic empowerment tools including the Square point-of-sale ecosystem, Cash App peer-to-peer payments, Afterpay buy-now-pay-later, and Bitcoin-focused initiatives.

Anchorage Digital $587M
Private San Francisco, United States

Anchorage Digital is America's first federally chartered cryptocurrency bank, providing institutional-grade custody, trading, staking, governance, and settlement services for digital assets. Founded by former Square and Docker security engineers, the company received its national trust bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in January 2021.

Zenefits $584M
Acquired San Francisco, United States

Zenefits was a cloud-based human resources platform that offered free HR software to small and mid-sized businesses, handling payroll, benefits administration, and compliance. The company rose rapidly through Y Combinator to a $4.5 billion valuation but collapsed after regulatory scandals revealed unlicensed insurance brokerage. Acquired by TriNet in 2022.

Science Corp $490M
Private Alameda, United States

Neurotechnology company developing a brain-computer interface called Science Eye to restore vision for people with retinal diseases. Uses a thin-film microLED display implanted behind the retina. Founded by Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak.

GitLab $434M
Public San Francisco, US

Open-core DevSecOps platform delivered as a single application for the entire software development lifecycle, from planning and source code management to CI/CD, security, and monitoring.

Webflow $335M
Private San Francisco, US

Visual web development platform that lets designers and developers build professional, custom websites without writing code, generating clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in real time. Bootstrapped for five years before raising venture capital.

Eight Sleep $292M
Private New York, New York, United States

Sleep technology company that develops AI-powered smart mattress covers with embedded sensors for temperature regulation, sleep tracking, and personalized health insights. The Pod mattress cover uses machine learning to optimize sleep quality by adjusting bed temperature throughout the night.

Okta $229M
Public San Francisco, United States

Okta is an identity and access management platform that provides cloud-based solutions for securely connecting people to technology. The company offers single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management for enterprises and developers.

Profound $155M
Private New York, US

AI search visibility platform helping businesses understand and optimize how they appear in AI-powered search results. Provides analytics and tools for brands to track their presence across AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

Basis $138M
Private New York, US

AI-powered accounting platform that automates bookkeeping, reconciliation, and financial reporting for businesses. Uses large language models to understand and process financial data with human-level accuracy.

Pardes Biosciences $127M
Acquired Carlsbad, US

Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that developed novel oral antiviral therapeutics targeting COVID-19. Went public via SPAC merger in 2021 before being acquired by MediPacific (a Foresite Capital affiliate) in 2023 after its lead candidate failed Phase 2 trials.

Scribd $106M
Private San Francisco, US

Scribd is a digital reading subscription platform providing unlimited access to books, audiobooks, magazines, documents, and podcasts. Originally launched as a document-sharing platform dubbed "the YouTube for documents," the company pivoted to a subscription content model and now operates three products: Everand (book/audiobook subscriptions), Scribd (user-uploaded documents), and SlideShare (presentations, acquired from LinkedIn in 2020).

Notable Labs $66M
Private Foster City, United States

Clinical-stage precision oncology company that built a proprietary Predictive Precision Medicines Platform (PPMP) to bio-simulate cancer treatments and predict patient response. Originally tested combinations of FDA-approved drugs on patient cancer cell samples for blood cancers. Demonstrated 84% accuracy in predicting treatment responses with Stanford.

Comp $20M
Private Sao Paulo, BR

AI-native HR platform that combines senior HR executives and AI engineers to transform compensation management, recruiting, and performance review processes. Embeds 'forward-deployed' experts (former HR leaders from Nubank, XP, IBM) who work alongside AI engineers to design customized HR policies and bespoke software tools. Provides real-time compensation benchmarking data from over 1,000 companies. Serves 150+ Brazilian companies including Nubank, QuintoAndar, Creditas, and iFood.

Investment data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.