Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. It provides capital and strategic guidance to startups across stages, focusing on technology-driven companies in areas such as artificial intelligence, climate and sustainability, enterprise software and services, fintech, digital health, medical technology and diagnostics, therapeutics, consumer products, and frontier technologies. The firm backs bold ventures with the potential to disrupt markets and improve lives, supporting companies from early to growth stages and working closely with entrepreneurs to apply science, technology and innovative business models. While primarily investing in North American technology companies, Khosla Ventures pursues opportunities globally and emphasizes experimentation and impact alongside financial returns. The firm also maintains related impact initiatives that support entrepreneurs addressing socio-economic challenges in emerging markets.

Alex Bentley

Partner and Investor

Nessan Bermingham Ph.D

Operating Partner

Ryno Blignaut

Operating Partner

Alice Brooks

Partner

Peter Buckland JD

General Partner and COO

Past deals in Data Visualization

Profound

Seed Round in 2024
Profound offers cutting-edge technology that analyzes how AI platforms portray and discuss brands, assisting businesses in managing their online reputation. The platform enables companies to oversee and comprehend their brand's representation in AI-generated responses, ensuring a favorable image. Profound functions as a robust analytics tool tailored for enterprise brands, aimed at improving their visibility and effectiveness in AI search environments.

Coframe

Seed Round in 2023
Coframe is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven A/B testing and personalization for websites and applications. Its platform continuously analyzes user interactions to optimize content, improving user experience, engagement, and conversion rates. Coframe's unique approach involves training multimodal models to understand user behavior and business goals, enabling user interfaces to autonomously enhance themselves over time.

Visible

Seed Round in 2023
Visible is a Miami-based company founded in 2022 that aims to transform real estate transactions through modern technology. By developing a financial network, Visible seeks to empower smaller-scale real estate investors by providing them with access to essential data, legal frameworks, and capital. The company's goal is to create a more equitable environment for buying, selling, and monetizing property, enhancing the traditional title system to facilitate these processes for homeowners and investors alike.

Imply

Series D in 2022
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, offers a comprehensive real-time analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of Apache Druid, an open-source database optimized for event-driven and streaming data. The company's multi-cloud platform enables organizations to ingest and visualize petabyte-scale datasets in real-time, facilitating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics with sub-second query response times. This innovative approach, termed analytics-in-motion, allows businesses to transition from traditional, static analytics solutions to interactive and highly scalable options. Imply serves a diverse clientele, including some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, providing tools for building analytics-powered applications and addressing various business intelligence and operational analytics needs. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply is at the forefront of a new category of real-time analytics solutions.

Livedocs

Venture Round in 2022
Livedocs enables teams to integrate real-time data from tools like Stripe and Google Analytics into their documents. This allows anyone on the team to monitor crucial metrics such as retention rates, monthly recurring revenue (MRR), and web traffic with minimal effort.

Cor

Series A in 2022
COR helps you implement globally-proven healthy lifestyle practices, then shows you a totally new type of data about how your body responds. Optimize your lifestyle and discover the impact of different daily customs with precise, science-based self-knowledge.

Myko

Seed Round in 2022
Myko AI is an artificial intelligence tool that pulls financial data from spreadsheets and helps make successful revenue-generating decisions with minimum onboarding. The company's application integrates directly into users' existing CRM platforms and chat applications, allowing data to be analyzed in seconds. This enables businesses to drive more revenue by providing their teams with deeper analytical capabilities and improving the financial reporting process by spending less time copying and pasting data.

ThoughtSpot

Series F in 2021
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

NetSpring

Series A in 2021
NetSpring is a company that specializes in product and customer journey analytics, providing tools to analyze product usage, user behavior, and customer experiences across various channels. Their platform is designed for contemporary data environments, allowing for warehouse-native analytics that eliminates the need for data duplication. By enabling product, growth, and data teams to access deeper insights directly from data warehouses, NetSpring helps businesses prioritize feature development, optimize customer acquisition, and reduce churn. The company's offerings empower organizations to enhance their products and overall customer experiences through detailed analysis of user behavior and product interaction trends.

Imply

Series C in 2021
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, offers a comprehensive real-time analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of Apache Druid, an open-source database optimized for event-driven and streaming data. The company's multi-cloud platform enables organizations to ingest and visualize petabyte-scale datasets in real-time, facilitating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics with sub-second query response times. This innovative approach, termed analytics-in-motion, allows businesses to transition from traditional, static analytics solutions to interactive and highly scalable options. Imply serves a diverse clientele, including some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, providing tools for building analytics-powered applications and addressing various business intelligence and operational analytics needs. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply is at the forefront of a new category of real-time analytics solutions.

Imply

Series B in 2019
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, offers a comprehensive real-time analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of Apache Druid, an open-source database optimized for event-driven and streaming data. The company's multi-cloud platform enables organizations to ingest and visualize petabyte-scale datasets in real-time, facilitating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics with sub-second query response times. This innovative approach, termed analytics-in-motion, allows businesses to transition from traditional, static analytics solutions to interactive and highly scalable options. Imply serves a diverse clientele, including some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, providing tools for building analytics-powered applications and addressing various business intelligence and operational analytics needs. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply is at the forefront of a new category of real-time analytics solutions.

NetSpring

Seed Round in 2019
NetSpring is a company that specializes in product and customer journey analytics, providing tools to analyze product usage, user behavior, and customer experiences across various channels. Their platform is designed for contemporary data environments, allowing for warehouse-native analytics that eliminates the need for data duplication. By enabling product, growth, and data teams to access deeper insights directly from data warehouses, NetSpring helps businesses prioritize feature development, optimize customer acquisition, and reduce churn. The company's offerings empower organizations to enhance their products and overall customer experiences through detailed analysis of user behavior and product interaction trends.

ThoughtSpot

Series E in 2019
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

ThoughtSpot

Series D in 2018
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

D2iQ

Series D in 2018
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.

Imply

Series A in 2018
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, offers a comprehensive real-time analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of Apache Druid, an open-source database optimized for event-driven and streaming data. The company's multi-cloud platform enables organizations to ingest and visualize petabyte-scale datasets in real-time, facilitating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics with sub-second query response times. This innovative approach, termed analytics-in-motion, allows businesses to transition from traditional, static analytics solutions to interactive and highly scalable options. Imply serves a diverse clientele, including some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, providing tools for building analytics-powered applications and addressing various business intelligence and operational analytics needs. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply is at the forefront of a new category of real-time analytics solutions.

Xcalar

Series A in 2017
Xcalar, Inc. is a data infrastructure services company based in San Jose, California, founded in 2013. It provides a business analytics platform that enables users to extract meaningful insights directly from petabytes of raw data without the need for data preparation or movement, thanks to its patented True Data In Place technology. This innovative approach allows for fundamental discovery of insights at unprecedented speed and scale, significantly reducing the time required to analyze complex datasets. Xcalar's platform simplifies the management, modeling, and analysis of big data, making it an essential tool for modern data applications, business intelligence, and reporting tools. By eliminating the need for data shuffling, Xcalar enhances efficiency and accessibility, facilitating a more straightforward pathway to uncover valuable information from extensive data resources.

ThoughtSpot

Series C in 2016
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

D2iQ

Series C in 2016
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.

Xcalar

Venture Round in 2016
Xcalar, Inc. is a data infrastructure services company based in San Jose, California, founded in 2013. It provides a business analytics platform that enables users to extract meaningful insights directly from petabytes of raw data without the need for data preparation or movement, thanks to its patented True Data In Place technology. This innovative approach allows for fundamental discovery of insights at unprecedented speed and scale, significantly reducing the time required to analyze complex datasets. Xcalar's platform simplifies the management, modeling, and analysis of big data, making it an essential tool for modern data applications, business intelligence, and reporting tools. By eliminating the need for data shuffling, Xcalar enhances efficiency and accessibility, facilitating a more straightforward pathway to uncover valuable information from extensive data resources.

Pixel Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Pixel Labs is a media technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. It specializes in hyperlocal content discovery, operating in 40 US cities with a focus on delivering news and information down to a 0.2-mile radius. The company uses machine learning and AI to transform raw data into automated stories, producing thousands of hyperlocal articles monthly. Pixel Labs' platform also tags and contextualizes content from various partner publications, adding precise location data and other metadata. Its technology, known as Atlas, analyzes vast amounts of unstructured data to identify and validate the most relevant signals, creating local stories and videos through a blend of editorial input, machine learning, and data science. The company's partners include major entities like ABC, Yahoo Search, MSN, Eventbrite, Uber, CBS, Advance Digital, Zumper, and McClatchy. Pixel Labs has a team of 28 employees and has attracted investments from notable firms such as Greylock, Rakuten, Disney, Social Capital, CRV, Innovation Endeavors, and Joi Ito.

Imply

Seed Round in 2015
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, offers a comprehensive real-time analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of Apache Druid, an open-source database optimized for event-driven and streaming data. The company's multi-cloud platform enables organizations to ingest and visualize petabyte-scale datasets in real-time, facilitating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics with sub-second query response times. This innovative approach, termed analytics-in-motion, allows businesses to transition from traditional, static analytics solutions to interactive and highly scalable options. Imply serves a diverse clientele, including some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, providing tools for building analytics-powered applications and addressing various business intelligence and operational analytics needs. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply is at the forefront of a new category of real-time analytics solutions.

Metamarkets Group

Series C in 2015
Metamarkets Group operates an interactive analytics platform designed for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company provides users with the capability to analyze real-time data within media marketplaces, enhancing their competitive edge. Its platform is utilized by notable clients such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project, enabling them to improve business performance through intuitive access to critical information. Metamarkets emphasizes self-service permissions for data and secure data transfers, empowering marketers with ad hoc data navigation and visualization tools to make informed decisions in the digital advertising landscape.

D2iQ

Series B in 2014
D2iQ develops a datacenter operating system (DCOS) that spans various machines in a datacenter or cloud. It organizes infrastructure, provides scalable application deployment, and supports big data infrastructure on shared resources. D2iQ offers products like Mesosphere DCOS, Infinity, and Conductor, along with architectural consulting services.

Tule

Seed Round in 2014
Tule offers a precision irrigation management system using Actual Evapotranspiration (ET) data. It provides real-time monitoring of water usage across fields, tracks plant water stress levels, and offers actionable insights for informed irrigation decisions.

ThoughtSpot

Series B in 2014
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

ClearStory Data

Series B in 2014
ClearStory Data Inc. is a data analytics company based in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 2011, it provides business-oriented data analytics solutions that cater to a variety of industries, including consumer packaged goods, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services. ClearStory Data's platform enables organizations to discover, analyze, and utilize data from various sources, such as relational databases, web applications, and third-party providers. The solution is designed to simplify access to disparate data, automate data harmonization, and facilitate interactive analysis at scale. By offering tools for data preparation, intelligent harmonization, and collaborative insights, ClearStory Data empowers business users to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently. As of April 2019, ClearStory Data operates as a subsidiary of Alteryx, Inc.

Kyron

Seed Round in 2013
Kyron, Inc. is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in the analysis of medical records from routine care to generate valuable medical insights. Established in 2013, Kyron focuses on identifying latent associations among medical conditions, interventions, and outcomes, thereby producing practice-based evidence. Through its medical records analysis platform, the company enables healthcare providers and individuals to collaborate in making informed decisions, ultimately aimed at enhancing health outcomes and improving the quality of healthcare.

Evolv

Series D in 2013
Evolv is a big data company that helps solve workforce performance issues for the C-suite by utilizing a configurable cloud services platform. Evolv's patent-pending technology platform unifies and supplements existing data from current systems, then utilizes that dataset to identify fact-based workforce insights that drive measurable ROI. By using objective, data-driven methodology, Evolv helps companies uncover the core reasons behind workforce performance, enabling executives to make better operational business decisions that generally result in tens of millions of dollars in measureable value per year.

tenXer

Series B in 2012
tenXer is a company focused on enhancing personal productivity through a data-driven platform designed for individual employees. Founded by Jeff Ma, who is also known for his involvement in the story behind the film 21, tenXer aims to address the needs of everyday workers rather than upper management. The platform collects data from various tools and services that users already engage with, presenting this information in an engaging format. By combining productivity analytics with social and game-like motivational systems, tenXer helps users gain insights into their work habits, thereby fostering intrinsic motivation and improving overall performance. This innovative approach positions tenXer as a significant player in the human capital management industry, emphasizing the importance of individual contributions to organizational productivity.

Metamarkets Group

Series B in 2012
Metamarkets Group operates an interactive analytics platform designed for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company provides users with the capability to analyze real-time data within media marketplaces, enhancing their competitive edge. Its platform is utilized by notable clients such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project, enabling them to improve business performance through intuitive access to critical information. Metamarkets emphasizes self-service permissions for data and secure data transfers, empowering marketers with ad hoc data navigation and visualization tools to make informed decisions in the digital advertising landscape.

ClearStory Data

Venture Round in 2012
ClearStory Data Inc. is a data analytics company based in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 2011, it provides business-oriented data analytics solutions that cater to a variety of industries, including consumer packaged goods, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services. ClearStory Data's platform enables organizations to discover, analyze, and utilize data from various sources, such as relational databases, web applications, and third-party providers. The solution is designed to simplify access to disparate data, automate data harmonization, and facilitate interactive analysis at scale. By offering tools for data preparation, intelligent harmonization, and collaborative insights, ClearStory Data empowers business users to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently. As of April 2019, ClearStory Data operates as a subsidiary of Alteryx, Inc.

Evolv

Series C in 2011
Evolv is a big data company that helps solve workforce performance issues for the C-suite by utilizing a configurable cloud services platform. Evolv's patent-pending technology platform unifies and supplements existing data from current systems, then utilizes that dataset to identify fact-based workforce insights that drive measurable ROI. By using objective, data-driven methodology, Evolv helps companies uncover the core reasons behind workforce performance, enabling executives to make better operational business decisions that generally result in tens of millions of dollars in measureable value per year.
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