Khosla Ventures

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Total investments 727

Average round size

The average size of a deal this fund participated in

$27M

Portfolio companies 491

Rounds per year 42.76

Lead investments 145

Follow on index

How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds

0.45

Exits 109

Key employees 10

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United States, Menlo Park

Stages of investment

Early Stage Venture

Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

Software
Health Care
Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Information Technology

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
Eight Sleep	Consumer Electronics Health Care Product Design Wellness	1	$86M	30 Aug 2021	Khosla Ventures General Catalyst Jaws Ventures Founders Fund Valor Equity Partners SoftBank	United States, New York
Known Medicine	Biotechnology Health Care Life Science Medical	1	$7M	25 Aug 2021	Forward Venture Capital Khosla Ventures Kickstart Cota Capital Caffeinated Capital Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures	United States, Salt Lake City
Arevo	3D Printing Computer Manufacturing Robotics Software	n/a	$25M	19 Aug 2021	Phystech Ventures Khosla Ventures GGV Capital Founders Fund Defy.vc	United States, Milpitas
Gaiascope	CleanTech Energy Machine Learning Power Grid Software Sustainability	1	$2M	17 Aug 2021	VoLo Earth Ventures Khosla Ventures	United States, Boston
Kiddom	E-Learning EdTech Education Software	1	$35M	13 Aug 2021	Altos Ventures Khosla Ventures Owl Ventures	United States, San Francisco
Flow Neuroscience	Health Care Medical Device	1	$9M	10 Aug 2021	HAX Global Brain Corporation Zühlke Ventures AG Swisshealth Ventures Redstone Kirin Holdings Schox Patent Group Khosla Ventures	Sweden, Malmo
Encellin	Biotechnology Health Care Health Diagnostics Medical Device	1	$5M	05 Aug 2021	Sand Hill Angels Khosla Ventures SV Latam Capital	United States, San Francisco
Catch	FinTech Freelance Health Insurance Insurance Personal Finance Retirement Wealth Management	1	$12M	30 Jul 2021	Nyca Partners Kindred Ventures Urban Innovation Fund Khosla Ventures Crosslink Capital	United States, Boston
Homebase	Human Resources Local Professional Services Small and Medium Businesses Software	1	$71M	29 Jul 2021	Cowboy Ventures Bain Capital Ventures Khosla Ventures GGV Capital Plus Capital Bedrock Capital Baseline Ventures	United States, San Francisco

News

Loyal raises $27M, aims to give dog owners more time with their pets

– San Francisco startup Loyal raised $27m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Khosla Ventures and included First Round Capital, Box Group, Collaborative Fund, The Longevity Fund and Lachy Groom.
– The company is building an animal pharmaceutical company that is developing therapeutics aimed at extending both lifespan and healthspan for dogs.

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.

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