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"Don’t indiscriminately pay up, but extremely selectively do pay up as huge outliers will more than pay for the losses in the AI field!"
@vkhosla.bsky.social on AI valuations today:
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@vkhosla.bsky.social on AI valuations today:
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Are AI Valuations Bonkers?
To many investors, valuations in AI land are bonkers—yet others justify them. This isn’t your usual bubble mania. Most valuations are bonkers, yet some valuations, even some apparently high valuations...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"Don’t indiscriminately pay up, but extremely selectively do pay up as huge outliers will more than pay for the losses in the AI field!"
@vkhosla.bsky.social on AI valuations today:
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@vkhosla.bsky.social on AI valuations today:
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Congrats to Basis, Lead, Loyal and Rogo! Thrilled to be early into your journeys!
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Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2025
This Forbes list highlights 25 venture-backed companies likely to become unicorns. Learn more about the founders and investors behind these fast-growing tech startups.
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August 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Congrats to Basis, Lead, Loyal and Rogo! Thrilled to be early into your journeys!
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Regulatory frameworks should keep up with science, not slow it down. KV's Ness Bermingham talks about the opportunity to modernize the FDA for an era of personalized medicine👇
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July 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Regulatory frameworks should keep up with science, not slow it down. KV's Ness Bermingham talks about the opportunity to modernize the FDA for an era of personalized medicine👇
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June 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
ICYMI - Kanu Gulati at @techcrunch.com Sessions on what to look for in early stage founders
“I want to understand what can be demonstrable in the next three years vs. what’s still hype."
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“I want to understand what can be demonstrable in the next three years vs. what’s still hype."
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June 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
ICYMI - Kanu Gulati at @techcrunch.com Sessions on what to look for in early stage founders
“I want to understand what can be demonstrable in the next three years vs. what’s still hype."
techcrunch.com/video/cut-th...
“I want to understand what can be demonstrable in the next three years vs. what’s still hype."
techcrunch.com/video/cut-th...
Thrilled to see KV-backed innovation shaping the future on this year’s CNBC #Disruptor50 list. Huge congrats to all the teams! 🥳
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June 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thrilled to see KV-backed innovation shaping the future on this year’s CNBC #Disruptor50 list. Huge congrats to all the teams! 🥳
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Forecasting weather with AI.
Reimagining sweeteners with protein.
Detecting colorectal cancer through a blood test.
Excited to see KV-backed Windborne, Oobli and Guardant Health featured on @fastcompany’s World Changing Ideas 2025 list! 🌎✨
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Reimagining sweeteners with protein.
Detecting colorectal cancer through a blood test.
Excited to see KV-backed Windborne, Oobli and Guardant Health featured on @fastcompany’s World Changing Ideas 2025 list! 🌎✨
www.fastcompany.com/world-changi...
Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas 2025
Our annual World Changing Ideas list honors businesses and organizations driving meaningful change in the world.
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June 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Forecasting weather with AI.
Reimagining sweeteners with protein.
Detecting colorectal cancer through a blood test.
Excited to see KV-backed Windborne, Oobli and Guardant Health featured on @fastcompany’s World Changing Ideas 2025 list! 🌎✨
www.fastcompany.com/world-changi...
Reimagining sweeteners with protein.
Detecting colorectal cancer through a blood test.
Excited to see KV-backed Windborne, Oobli and Guardant Health featured on @fastcompany’s World Changing Ideas 2025 list! 🌎✨
www.fastcompany.com/world-changi...
KV Summit 2025… racing to utopia!
June 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
KV Summit 2025… racing to utopia!
20 years of building and beyond
June 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
20 years of building and beyond
Welcome to the KV portfolio, ClickHouse! 🎉 Powering lightning-fast, real-time analytics for the AI era.
More here 👇
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More here 👇
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May 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Welcome to the KV portfolio, ClickHouse! 🎉 Powering lightning-fast, real-time analytics for the AI era.
More here 👇
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More here 👇
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Traditional cell therapies are expensive, slow to develop, and difficult to scale.
Somite AI is building foundation models that systematically solve these challenges, with the potential to not only develop their own pipeline, but reshape the entire field of human cell therapy.
Somite AI is building foundation models that systematically solve these challenges, with the potential to not only develop their own pipeline, but reshape the entire field of human cell therapy.
May 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Traditional cell therapies are expensive, slow to develop, and difficult to scale.
Somite AI is building foundation models that systematically solve these challenges, with the potential to not only develop their own pipeline, but reshape the entire field of human cell therapy.
Somite AI is building foundation models that systematically solve these challenges, with the potential to not only develop their own pipeline, but reshape the entire field of human cell therapy.
We've backed Realta Fusion since seed because of their unique SMR (small modular reactors) approach to fusion.
It's a radically different model that unlocks scalable fusion energy from 50MW to 500MW with multiple paths to market for heat and electricity.
It's a radically different model that unlocks scalable fusion energy from 50MW to 500MW with multiple paths to market for heat and electricity.
Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor
Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor | TechCrunch
Realta hopes to build power plants cheaply enough to supply power as low as $40 per megawatt-hour.
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May 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We've backed Realta Fusion since seed because of their unique SMR (small modular reactors) approach to fusion.
It's a radically different model that unlocks scalable fusion energy from 50MW to 500MW with multiple paths to market for heat and electricity.
It's a radically different model that unlocks scalable fusion energy from 50MW to 500MW with multiple paths to market for heat and electricity.
Excited to finally announce what Stylus Medicine is building to solve some of the biggest challenges in cell and gene therapies.
Proud to have backed them since day one.
Bold. Early. Impactful.
Proud to have backed them since day one.
Bold. Early. Impactful.
Patrick Hsu's startup Stylus Medicine has launched with $85 million to develop in vivo CAR-T cell therapies with a recombinase-based gene insertion technology that promises to be simpler than CRISPR-based approaches. My exclusive story for @endpts.com has the details:
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Exclusive: Patrick Hsu startup launches, looks beyond CRISPR for gene insertion technology
Stylus Medicine, a startup founded by Patrick Hsu, has raised $85 million to develop a suite of technologies that it believes will help solve some of the biggest and most competitive challenges in the...
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May 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Excited to finally announce what Stylus Medicine is building to solve some of the biggest challenges in cell and gene therapies.
Proud to have backed them since day one.
Bold. Early. Impactful.
Proud to have backed them since day one.
Bold. Early. Impactful.
"Behind every great company, there was a prescient early investor who planted the seed that helped it grow into a redwood.
For Facebook, that investor was Peter Thiel. For DoorDash and Opendoor, it was Keith Rabois."
For Facebook, that investor was Peter Thiel. For DoorDash and Opendoor, it was Keith Rabois."
May 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
"Behind every great company, there was a prescient early investor who planted the seed that helped it grow into a redwood.
For Facebook, that investor was Peter Thiel. For DoorDash and Opendoor, it was Keith Rabois."
For Facebook, that investor was Peter Thiel. For DoorDash and Opendoor, it was Keith Rabois."
May 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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NewLimit has raised a $130M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins alongside NFDG, @khoslaventures.bsky.social, Human Capital and returning investors Dimension & Founders Fund
We're grateful for their boldness in joining us on our journey to extend human healthspan
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We're grateful for their boldness in joining us on our journey to extend human healthspan
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NewLimit raises $130 million Series B led by Kleiner Perkins alongside NFDG, Khosla Ventures, Human Capital and others
NewLimit is developing medicines to extend human healthspan through epigenetic reprogramming
blog.newlimit.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
NewLimit has raised a $130M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins alongside NFDG, @khoslaventures.bsky.social, Human Capital and returning investors Dimension & Founders Fund
We're grateful for their boldness in joining us on our journey to extend human healthspan
blog.newlimit.com/p/newlimit-r...
We're grateful for their boldness in joining us on our journey to extend human healthspan
blog.newlimit.com/p/newlimit-r...
Congrats to Alice Brooks on @SFBusinessTimes 40 under 40!
"I get to work with entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems: unlocking limitless fusion energy, growing more scalable sources of protein, creating high-performing circular materials and chemicals and more."
"I get to work with entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems: unlocking limitless fusion energy, growing more scalable sources of protein, creating high-performing circular materials and chemicals and more."
April 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Congrats to Alice Brooks on @SFBusinessTimes 40 under 40!
"I get to work with entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems: unlocking limitless fusion energy, growing more scalable sources of protein, creating high-performing circular materials and chemicals and more."
"I get to work with entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems: unlocking limitless fusion energy, growing more scalable sources of protein, creating high-performing circular materials and chemicals and more."
"If you need power now, you can't wait for the grid and you can't wait for natural gas turbines to come online." Samir Kaul
With AI driving unprecedented energy demand, Mainspring’s fuel-flexible generators are key to scalable, distributed power. First check in!⚡
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With AI driving unprecedented energy demand, Mainspring’s fuel-flexible generators are key to scalable, distributed power. First check in!⚡
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Khosla-Backed Energy Startup Nabs $258 Million to Help Power Data Centers
Mainspring Energy’s generators are able to run on different types of gas, including carbon-free hydrogen.
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April 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"If you need power now, you can't wait for the grid and you can't wait for natural gas turbines to come online." Samir Kaul
With AI driving unprecedented energy demand, Mainspring’s fuel-flexible generators are key to scalable, distributed power. First check in!⚡
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With AI driving unprecedented energy demand, Mainspring’s fuel-flexible generators are key to scalable, distributed power. First check in!⚡
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A must watch for changemakers anywhere! KV portfolio founder Jackie Reses on disrupting fintech with Lead, lessons from Block and building company culture.
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Changemakers: Lead Bank CEO Jacqueline Reses on disrupting fintech and the power of diversity
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March 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A must watch for changemakers anywhere! KV portfolio founder Jackie Reses on disrupting fintech with Lead, lessons from Block and building company culture.
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We are excited to be partnering with Halle and her team at
Respin as they take on the large market of menopause and wellness.
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Respin as they take on the large market of menopause and wellness.
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Actress Halle Berry is ready for her ‘second act,’ as she becomes a major player in the $17 billion menopause care market
The Academy Award winner who once struggled to make male investors realize “menopause was a real thing” is now cashing checks from Khosla Ventures.
fortune.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We are excited to be partnering with Halle and her team at
Respin as they take on the large market of menopause and wellness.
fortune.com/well/2025/02...
Respin as they take on the large market of menopause and wellness.
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Today 75% of Traba's customers are asking about legal work authorization, compared to <5% just a few months ago.
Keith Rabois and Mike Shebat talk about helping companies secure their workforces with Liz Claman👇
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Keith Rabois and Mike Shebat talk about helping companies secure their workforces with Liz Claman👇
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Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois on startup taking on Amazon | Fox Business Video
'The Claman Countdown' panelists Keith Rabois and Mike Shebat discuss how Traba connects industrial workers to businesses.
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February 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Today 75% of Traba's customers are asking about legal work authorization, compared to <5% just a few months ago.
Keith Rabois and Mike Shebat talk about helping companies secure their workforces with Liz Claman👇
www.foxbusiness.com/video/636866...
Keith Rabois and Mike Shebat talk about helping companies secure their workforces with Liz Claman👇
www.foxbusiness.com/video/636866...
Sci-fi becomes reality: Almost 10 yrs ago we backed eGenesis to solve the global organ shortage by genetically modifying pig organs for humans.
Today they announced a second patient received one of their pig kidneys.
Today they announced a second patient received one of their pig kidneys.
February 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Sci-fi becomes reality: Almost 10 yrs ago we backed eGenesis to solve the global organ shortage by genetically modifying pig organs for humans.
Today they announced a second patient received one of their pig kidneys.
Today they announced a second patient received one of their pig kidneys.
AI + cancer: C the Signs is using AI to detect cancer early!
More from @wsj.com here:
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More from @wsj.com here:
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Exclusive | Khosla Ventures Backs U.K. Startup’s Plan to Bring Cancer AI Tool to U.S.
C the Signs is using AI to sharpen predictions on cancer risk.
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February 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
AI + cancer: C the Signs is using AI to detect cancer early!
More from @wsj.com here:
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More from @wsj.com here:
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Thrilled to back Atomicwork, a SaaS startup using AI agents to streamline communication & service delivery between employees and enterprises. 🚀
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Atomicwork gets backing from Khosla for its AI alternative to old-school IT software like ServiceNow | TechCrunch
Atomicwork has raised $25 million in a Series A round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Z47 to expand its AI agentic platform for enterprises.
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January 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Thrilled to back Atomicwork, a SaaS startup using AI agents to streamline communication & service delivery between employees and enterprises. 🚀
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Read more from TechCrunch 👇
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Bringing healthcare changemakers together!🌟 Our annual JPM reception yesterday brought together experts, innovators, and visionaries driving the future of healthcare.
January 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Bringing healthcare changemakers together!🌟 Our annual JPM reception yesterday brought together experts, innovators, and visionaries driving the future of healthcare.