The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Khosla Ventures: $306.0M raised. 1 source back the record.
Overview
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Vinod Khosla in 2004, investing in transformative technology and science. Focus areas include AI, robotics, clean energy, biotech, and food technology. Led Histosonics $102M Series D and Hermeus $350M Series C in 2026.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
HQ
Founded
Founder
Focus
2026 deals
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Khosla Ventures has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1114 total
- 2Porsche1× joint1 total
- 3Uber1× joint35 total
- 4Volvo Group Venture Capital1× joint1 total
- 5Waabi1× joint6 total
Most recent
- Waabi Series B (2024)2024-06-18with Waabioperating
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Vinod Khosla Founderreported, not verified
Founders (1)
Safety record
No incidents on record for Khosla Ventures.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Khosla Ventures in third-party press
Financial state
- Total funding
- $306.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Khosla Ventures has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Waabi Series B (2024)2024-06-18with Waabioperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1114 total
- 2Porsche1× joint1 total
- 3Uber1× joint35 total
- 4Volvo Group Venture Capital1× joint1 total
- 5Waabi1× joint6 total
Funding rounds (3)
Khosla Ventures’s 3 disclosed rounds, $306M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series C
$102M(reported)
- Series C
$102M(reported)
- Series C
$102M(reported)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Khosla Ventures’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipWaabi Series B (2024)
2024-06-18Waabi (autonomous trucking) raised a $200 million Series B (announced June 18, 2024) led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, with new investor NVIDIA plus Porsche and Volvo Group Venture Capital; brought total funding to ~$280M.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Khosla Ventures.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Khosla Ventures from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Heat Index
Category contender77/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Khosla Ventures against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 4, 2026