Khosla Ventures

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Total investments 894

Average round size

The average size of a deal this fund participated in

$27M

Portfolio companies 363

Rounds per year 22.59

Lead investments 165

Follow on index

How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds

0.48

Exits 94

United States, Menlo Park

Stages of investment

Early Stage Venture

Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

Business Development
Financial Services
Health Care
Mobile
Venture Capital

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.

Company	Industry	Round	Round Size	Date	Investors	Location
Ochre Bio	Biopharma Biotechnology Health Care Therapeutics	Seed	9M	16 Jun 2021	Selvedge Venture Khosla Ventures Hoxton Ventures BACKED VC Apollo Health Ventures	United Kingdom, Oxford
Faire	E-Commerce Marketplace Retail Retail Technology Wholesale	Late Stage Venture	260M	10 Jun 2021	Dragoneer Investment Group Baillie Gifford Khosla Ventures Forerunner Ventures Lightspeed Venture Partners Wellington Management DST Global Y Combinator - Crunchbase School Profile & Alumni D1 Capital Partners Founders Fund Sequoia Capital	United States, San Francisco
Synchron	Information Technology Manufacturing Marketing Medical Device	Early Stage Venture	40M	03 Jun 2021	ID8 Investments Shanda Group University of Melbourne - Crunchbase School Profile & Alumni Neurotechnology Investors Khosla Ventures Subversive Capital	United States, " United States"}
Good Health Company (Clinic) (GHC)	Health Care	Seed	5M	01 Jun 2021	Khosla Ventures Quiet Capital	India, " India"}
Hello Heart	Fitness Health Care Medical mHealth Wellness	Late Stage Venture	45M	26 May 2021	Samsung Electronics Resolute Ventures Khosla Ventures Institutional Venture Partners BlueRun Ventures	United States, " United States"}
Overture Life	Biotechnology	Early Stage Venture	15M	25 May 2021	Octopus Ventures GV Khosla Ventures Felicis Ventures	United States, New York
Fireflies.ai	Enterprise Software Meeting Software Messaging SaaS Software	Early Stage Venture	14M	24 May 2021	Khosla Ventures Canaan Partners	United States, San Francisco
Heyday	Beauty Cosmetics Digital Marketing E-Commerce Health Care Information Technology Internet Marketplace	Early Stage Venture	70M	20 May 2021	General Catalyst Khosla Ventures Arbor Ventures	United States, New York
		Early Stage Venture	20M	12 May 2021	Khosla Ventures Founders Fund Base10 Partners Andreessen Horowitz

News

Opentrons Raises $200M in Series C Funding
– Opentrons Labworks Inc. is a NYC-based lab platform provider. – SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round with participation by Khosla Ventures. – The company intends to use the funds to further invest in its automated lab platform globally. Read more

AI-driven voice assistant PolyAI raises $14M round led by Khosla Ventures
– PolyAI, a voice assistant company, raised $15m funding. – The round was led by Silicon Valley’s Khosla Ventures, and joined by Point72 Ventures, Amadeus Capital, Sands Capital Ventures, Passion Capital and Entrepreneur First. – It brings PolyAI to a valuation of $100m. – PolyAI claims its voice assistant can be turned live more quickly, in more languages, and charges on a per-minute basis. Read more

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