Khosla Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

1243

Average round size

31M

Portfolio companies

611

Rounds per year

62.15

Lead investments

245

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

121

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareMedical

Summary

Khosla Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. When the investment is from Khosla Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Khosla Ventures performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 25-48 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Khosla Ventures, startups are often financed by Lerer Hippeau, FLOODGATE, DAG Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Slow Ventures, Sherpa Capital, Scott Banister. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Horizons Ventures, Greylock Partners, Felicis Ventures.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stripe, Instacart, DoorDash. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

This organization was formed by Vinod Khosla. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataClimate techB2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailFintech Show 2 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
7M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 550000000
Fund raised date
2022-01-06

Analytics

Total investments
1243
Lead investments
245
Exits
121
Rounds per year
62.15
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Software (275)
  • Health Care (239)
  • Artificial Intelligence (161)
  • Biotechnology (151)
  • Information Technology (120)
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Investments by region
  • United States (1090)
  • Canada (17)
  • Germany (10)
  • United Kingdom (20)
  • India (21)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
43
Number of Decacorns
48
Number of Minotaurs
18

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
520M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
4.78
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cyberhaven 11 Jun 2024 Information Technology, Cyber Security, Security, Cloud Security Late Stage Venture 88M United States, California, Palo Alto
YonedaLabs 26 Apr 2024 Seed 4M United States, California, San Francisco
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