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 Database

Neon

Series B in 2023
Neon is a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres as a service. By separating storage from computing, Neon offers autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. Neon aims to provide a highly performant and cost-effective database infrastructure by leveraging cloud-native technologies and innovative architectural features.

Neon

Series A in 2022
Neon is a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres as a service. By separating storage from computing, Neon offers autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. Neon aims to provide a highly performant and cost-effective database infrastructure by leveraging cloud-native technologies and innovative architectural features.

SingleStore

Series F in 2021
SingleStore is a data technology company that provides a distributed SQL database platform designed for real-time transactions and analytics. Its offerings include SingleStore DB, a distributed SQL database that can run on bare metal, in the cloud, or in hybrid deployments for operational analytics, and SingleStore Managed Service, a cloud database-as-a-service that provides analytics across a cloud of choice. The platform combines transactional and analytical processing in a single engine, supports real-time querying, multi-model data, and scalable ingestion, and aims to modernize data platforms, secure workloads, and support customer analytics across industries such as financial services, media and communications, energy and utilities, government, retail, and technology. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices, the company serves global enterprises by enabling real-time insights from data.

Realm

Venture Round in 2017
Realm ApS is a mobile database company that provides a robust alternative to SQLite and Core Data, facilitating faster application development for users on Android, iOS, and OSX platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with an additional office in San Francisco, Realm specializes in offering a memory-efficient database that includes features like querying, relationships, graphs, and thread safety. This innovative platform significantly reduces the amount of code developers need to write, effectively saving them time and enabling the creation of enhanced user experiences. As of May 2019, Realm operates as a subsidiary of MongoDB, Inc.

SingleStore

Series C in 2016
SingleStore is a data technology company that provides a distributed SQL database platform designed for real-time transactions and analytics. Its offerings include SingleStore DB, a distributed SQL database that can run on bare metal, in the cloud, or in hybrid deployments for operational analytics, and SingleStore Managed Service, a cloud database-as-a-service that provides analytics across a cloud of choice. The platform combines transactional and analytical processing in a single engine, supports real-time querying, multi-model data, and scalable ingestion, and aims to modernize data platforms, secure workloads, and support customer analytics across industries such as financial services, media and communications, energy and utilities, government, retail, and technology. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices, the company serves global enterprises by enabling real-time insights from data.

Citus Data

Series A in 2015
Citus Data, Inc. is a database technology company specializing in scaling PostgreSQL to enhance real-time applications. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Istanbul, Turkey, Citus Data provides a distributed database platform that efficiently handles massive parallelism and supports complex queries. Its flagship product, CitusDB, integrates the capabilities of PostgreSQL with features like native JSON support, enabling businesses to manage and analyze large volumes of data effectively. The platform simplifies database sharding, allowing organizations to partition large datasets for improved performance and manageability. Citus Data serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, security, and advertising, facilitating interactive analytics and operational workloads. In 2019, Citus Data became a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Realm

Series B in 2015
Realm ApS is a mobile database company that provides a robust alternative to SQLite and Core Data, facilitating faster application development for users on Android, iOS, and OSX platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with an additional office in San Francisco, Realm specializes in offering a memory-efficient database that includes features like querying, relationships, graphs, and thread safety. This innovative platform significantly reduces the amount of code developers need to write, effectively saving them time and enabling the creation of enhanced user experiences. As of May 2019, Realm operates as a subsidiary of MongoDB, Inc.

DB CyberTech

Series B in 2014
DB CyberTech is a cybersecurity company specializing in predictive data loss prevention technologies designed to safeguard business data. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company leverages advanced techniques such as deep protocol extraction, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to assess database infrastructures. Its innovative products enable non-intrusive monitoring and analysis of database activity, allowing organizations to accurately identify insider threats and database attacks. DB CyberTech serves a diverse clientele, including major financial institutions, healthcare providers, manufacturers, and government entities. The company's solutions provide detailed insights into application and database interactions, enhancing situational awareness and helping clients protect sensitive information from potential breaches.

SingleStore

Series B in 2014
SingleStore is a data technology company that provides a distributed SQL database platform designed for real-time transactions and analytics. Its offerings include SingleStore DB, a distributed SQL database that can run on bare metal, in the cloud, or in hybrid deployments for operational analytics, and SingleStore Managed Service, a cloud database-as-a-service that provides analytics across a cloud of choice. The platform combines transactional and analytical processing in a single engine, supports real-time querying, multi-model data, and scalable ingestion, and aims to modernize data platforms, secure workloads, and support customer analytics across industries such as financial services, media and communications, energy and utilities, government, retail, and technology. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices, the company serves global enterprises by enabling real-time insights from data.

ParStream

Series B in 2013
ParStream is a company specializing in IoT analytics, offering a platform designed to efficiently manage and analyze large volumes of IoT data at high speeds. Founded in 2011 by Michael Hummel and Jörg Bienert, the company addresses the growing demand for real-time data processing in various industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, renewable energy, and telematics. ParStream's platform features a column-oriented database with unique indexing technology and a parallel architecture, enabling real-time insights with low latency and high throughput. It supports common interface technologies like JDBC and ODBC, making integration into existing IT infrastructures seamless. The software operates on standard CPU infrastructure and is available in single server, cluster, and cloud editions across most Linux distributions. ParStream has its main offices in Cupertino, California, and Cologne, Germany, and maintains sales teams throughout Europe and Korea. The company has received recognition for its innovative approach, being named a top startup by CIO Magazine and recognized by Gartner and Database Trends and Applications Magazine.

Realm

Series A in 2013
Realm ApS is a mobile database company that provides a robust alternative to SQLite and Core Data, facilitating faster application development for users on Android, iOS, and OSX platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with an additional office in San Francisco, Realm specializes in offering a memory-efficient database that includes features like querying, relationships, graphs, and thread safety. This innovative platform significantly reduces the amount of code developers need to write, effectively saving them time and enabling the creation of enhanced user experiences. As of May 2019, Realm operates as a subsidiary of MongoDB, Inc.

DB CyberTech

Series B in 2013
DB CyberTech is a cybersecurity company specializing in predictive data loss prevention technologies designed to safeguard business data. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company leverages advanced techniques such as deep protocol extraction, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to assess database infrastructures. Its innovative products enable non-intrusive monitoring and analysis of database activity, allowing organizations to accurately identify insider threats and database attacks. DB CyberTech serves a diverse clientele, including major financial institutions, healthcare providers, manufacturers, and government entities. The company's solutions provide detailed insights into application and database interactions, enhancing situational awareness and helping clients protect sensitive information from potential breaches.

ParStream

Series A in 2012
ParStream is a company specializing in IoT analytics, offering a platform designed to efficiently manage and analyze large volumes of IoT data at high speeds. Founded in 2011 by Michael Hummel and Jörg Bienert, the company addresses the growing demand for real-time data processing in various industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, renewable energy, and telematics. ParStream's platform features a column-oriented database with unique indexing technology and a parallel architecture, enabling real-time insights with low latency and high throughput. It supports common interface technologies like JDBC and ODBC, making integration into existing IT infrastructures seamless. The software operates on standard CPU infrastructure and is available in single server, cluster, and cloud editions across most Linux distributions. ParStream has its main offices in Cupertino, California, and Cologne, Germany, and maintains sales teams throughout Europe and Korea. The company has received recognition for its innovative approach, being named a top startup by CIO Magazine and recognized by Gartner and Database Trends and Applications Magazine.

Realm

Seed Round in 2011
Realm ApS is a mobile database company that provides a robust alternative to SQLite and Core Data, facilitating faster application development for users on Android, iOS, and OSX platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with an additional office in San Francisco, Realm specializes in offering a memory-efficient database that includes features like querying, relationships, graphs, and thread safety. This innovative platform significantly reduces the amount of code developers need to write, effectively saving them time and enabling the creation of enhanced user experiences. As of May 2019, Realm operates as a subsidiary of MongoDB, Inc.

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system designed for online analytical processing. It enables real-time analytical reporting by executing SQL queries over large datasets. Its columnar storage reduces data footprint and speeds up query performance by eliminating unnecessary data, while vector-based processing enhances CPU efficiency for large-scale workloads. The system handles vast numbers of rows and gigabytes of data per server, delivering secure, reliable, and scalable analytics that help enterprises streamline data processing.
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