Khosla Ventures
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- founded by Vinod Khosla 100%
- employed by Vinod Khosla 90%
- founded Vinod Khosla 90%
- founded Sanjay Ghemawat 90%
- invested in Sentinel Global 90%
- invested by Emergent BioSolutions 90%
- founded by Havi Nguyen 90%
- employed by Quoc Le 70%
- invested in Vinod Khosla 70%
- founded Oriol Vinyals 70%
- employed by Oriol Vinyals 70%
- founded Discovery Loop 70%
- 2026-09-12 partnership Khosla Ventures is opening its first office outside of Sand Hill Road in New York City. source
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OpenAI secures $11B in funding at $1.25T valuation, signals market shift
OpenAI has reportedly secured $11 billion in funding, with the potential for the round to reach $20 billion. This initial tranche values the company at $1.25 trillion. The company is reportedly seeking capital from a di…
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AI diagnostics startup Traversal raises $120M at $1B valuation
Traversal, a New York-based startup specializing in AI agents for software diagnostics, has secured $120 million in Series B funding, achieving a $1 billion valuation. The funding round was co-led by Kleiner Perkins, Re…
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OpenAI secures less than half of $30B funding target from top VCs
OpenAI has secured less than half of its ambitious $30 billion funding goal, according to reports. The company's fundraising efforts have attracted investment from prominent venture capital firms such as Thrive Capital,…
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Privacy AI assistant Ollie shuts down amid competition
Ollie, an AI assistant focused on family privacy, is ceasing operations on November 6. CEO Bill Lennon cited intense competition from rivals like Muse and Instinct as the primary reason for the shutdown, stating the com…
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Broccoli AI raises $52M for AI agents serving home contractors
Broccoli AI, an AI startup founded by two Gen Z engineers, has secured $52 million in Series A and B funding, led by Khosla Ventures. The company develops AI agents for home service contractors, such as plumbers and ele…
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AI assistant startups Town and Tolan raise $138M combined
AI-powered business assistant developer Town has secured $108 million in a Series B funding round led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures. Separately, AI assistant developer Tolan announced a $30 million funding r…
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AI companion app Tolan raises $30M, surpasses $268M valuation · 2 sources tracked
Tolan, an AI companion app designed to assist users with daily life, relationships, and goals, has secured $30 million in a new funding round. This brings the company's total raised to date to $30 million, with its valu…
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Khosla Ventures leads $300M round for Even Healthcare, targeting India's hospital market
Khosla Ventures has led a $300 million funding round for Even Healthcare, a company focused on challenging hospital economics in India. This investment will support Even Healthcare's expansion of its hospital network wi…
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Abby Care raises $82M to train family members as paid caregivers
Abby Care, an AI-native startup, has secured $82 million in Series C funding to train family members as certified, paid caregivers. The company aims to address the significant gap in home healthcare by empowering family…
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AI model leaderboard Arena raises $200M at $3.1B valuation · 3 sources tracked
Arena, a platform for comparing and evaluating AI models, has secured $200 million in Series B funding, valuing the company at $3.1 billion. The funding round, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, …
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AI leaderboard Arena raises $200M at $3.1B valuation, adds alignment tracking · 4 sources tracked
LMSys Org, the company behind the AI leaderboard Arena, has secured $200 million in Series B funding, valuing the company at $3.1 billion. This represents a near doubling of its valuation in just 10 months, following a …
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Video game data to train AI world models, says startup
A British startup, Worldmodeldata, is developing a new approach to training AI models by leveraging data from video games. The company believes that controller inputs and visual data from games can provide the necessary…
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PrismML shrinks LLMs for PC and smartphone use, retaining 98% performance
PrismML has developed a novel compression technique that significantly reduces the size of large language models while retaining most of their performance. Their latest model, Bonsai 2.27B, compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 …
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AI search optimization startup Profound raises $180M at $1.8B valuation · 4 sources tracked
Profound, a startup focused on helping brands appear in AI search results, has secured $180 million in Series D funding at a $1.8 billion valuation. This latest round comes just seven months after their Series C funding…
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Former TikTok execs launch AI-powered photo posing app, Superpose
Two former TikTok executives have launched Superpose, an iOS app that utilizes AI to guide users on how to pose for photographs. The app generates four distinct pose suggestions for a user's photo and offers a feature t…
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Khosla Ventures expands with first New York office
Khosla Ventures, a prominent venture capital firm, is expanding its operations by opening a new office in New York City this fall. This marks the firm's first physical location outside of its traditional base on Sand Hi…
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Founder develops cheaper, cleaner steelmaking process
Laureen Meroueh, founder of Hertha Metals, has developed a novel furnace that simplifies steelmaking, reducing both emissions and costs. This new process turns iron ore into liquid steel in a single step, utilizing natu…
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NavigateAI secures $25M for AI guidance in construction
NavigateAI, founded by Eric Wu, is developing AI-powered, hands-free guidance systems for construction workers. Utilizing smartphones and Meta's AI glasses, the technology aims to address labor shortages in industries l…
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Ollie AI assistant launches with a privacy-first approach
Ollie, a new AI assistant designed for everyday life, is differentiating itself by prioritizing user privacy. Unlike some competitors, Ollie has achieved SOC 2 compliance, assuring users that their personal data will no…
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Vatican invests $117M in solar power for carbon neutrality
The Vatican is embarking on an ambitious plan to achieve carbon neutrality by investing 117 million dollars in a new agrivoltaic plant. This initiative, building on Pope Francis's earlier environmental directives, aims …