Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is a venture capital firm that provides strategic advice, capital, and support to bold entrepreneurs across various sectors. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in areas such as artificial intelligence, climate technology, sustainability, enterprise solutions, consumer products, fintech, digital health, medical technology, and therapeutics. Khosla Ventures is particularly interested in innovative solutions that address significant socio-economic challenges and enhance productivity, especially for low-income populations and small businesses in emerging markets. The firm embraces experimentation and is open to investing in unconventional and high-risk ventures, often acting as the sole investor in groundbreaking projects. With a commitment to fostering impactful entrepreneurship, Khosla Ventures seeks to create value through technological advancements and creative business models, with a special emphasis on markets in South Asia.

Bruce Armstrong

Partner

Alex Bentley

Partner and Investor

Nessan Bermingham

Operating Partner

Ryno Blignaut

Operating Partner

Alice Brooks

Principal

Peter Buckland

General Partner and COO

Brian Byun

Venture Partner

Catherine Casuga

Operating Partner

Jonathan Chu

Partner and Investor

Ece Erdagoz

Principal

Bryan Gartner

Partner

Kanu Gulati

Partner

Judy Huang

Operating Partner

Samir Kaul

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Vinod Khosla

Managing Director

Kelly Kinnard

Operating Partner

Evan Moore

Partner

Alexander Morgan

Partner

Arash Rebek

Partner, Capital Formation

Jessy Rivest

Partner and Investor

Leah Scanlan

Operating Partner

Nikita Shamgunov

Partner

Sven Strohband

Managing Director

Rajesh Swaminathan

Partner

David Weiden

Managing Director

Ece Erdagoz Wyrick

Principal and Investor

David Weiden

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Adam Coates

Operating Partner

Kanupriya Gulati Ph.D

Partner and Investor

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, Inc. is a provider of a relational database designed for cloud and on-premises transactions and analytics. The company offers a cloud database-as-a-service, known as SingleStore Managed Service, which enables analytics on the cloud of choice. Its flagship product, SingleStore DB, is a distributed SQL database that supports operational analytics on bare metal and hybrid cloud environments. SingleStore specializes in modernizing data platforms, securing government workloads, and facilitating IoT analytics, customer interactions, and risk management. It caters to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, media communications, energy, government, and retail. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company has additional offices in Seattle, Boston, Portland, Lisbon, and London. Initially known as MemSQL Inc., it rebranded to SingleStore, Inc. in October 2020.

Rubrik

Series E in 2019
Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT and eliminating backup software. This marks the end of a decade-long innovation drought in backup and recovery, the backbone of IT. Within minutes, businesses can manage the explosion of data across private and public clouds.

Realm

Venture Round in 2017
Realm (formerly tight.db) is a mobile database that enables its users to develop applications faster, develop applications that are fast, and craft amazing user experiences. Realm is a replacement for SQLite & Core Data. It can save users thousands of lines of code & weeks of work, and lets them craft amazing new user experiences. It is a Y Combinator company, headquartered in San Francisco.

Rubrik

Series C in 2016
Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT and eliminating backup software. This marks the end of a decade-long innovation drought in backup and recovery, the backbone of IT. Within minutes, businesses can manage the explosion of data across private and public clouds.

SingleStore

Series C in 2016
SingleStore, Inc. is a provider of a relational database designed for cloud and on-premises transactions and analytics. The company offers a cloud database-as-a-service, known as SingleStore Managed Service, which enables analytics on the cloud of choice. Its flagship product, SingleStore DB, is a distributed SQL database that supports operational analytics on bare metal and hybrid cloud environments. SingleStore specializes in modernizing data platforms, securing government workloads, and facilitating IoT analytics, customer interactions, and risk management. It caters to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, media communications, energy, government, and retail. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company has additional offices in Seattle, Boston, Portland, Lisbon, and London. Initially known as MemSQL Inc., it rebranded to SingleStore, Inc. in October 2020.

Citus Data

Series A in 2015
Citus Data, Inc. specializes in developing and distributing database products that enhance PostgreSQL to support real-time applications. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Istanbul, the company offers a platform that simplifies sharding, allowing businesses to efficiently manage large datasets by partitioning them for faster access and analysis. Its flagship product, CitusDB, combines powerful parallel processing capabilities with the expressiveness of PostgreSQL, including support for JSON data. This extensible distributed database serves various industries such as e-commerce, retail, security, advertising technology, and mobile analytics, enabling organizations to effectively handle and analyze billions of events in real-time. Citus Data operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Realm

Series B in 2015
Realm (formerly tight.db) is a mobile database that enables its users to develop applications faster, develop applications that are fast, and craft amazing user experiences. Realm is a replacement for SQLite & Core Data. It can save users thousands of lines of code & weeks of work, and lets them craft amazing new user experiences. It is a Y Combinator company, headquartered in San Francisco.

DB CyberTech

Series B in 2014
DB CyberTech specializes in developing predictive data loss prevention technologies that safeguard business data through advanced security measures. The company employs deep protocol extraction, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to non-intrusively assess database infrastructures, allowing for the identification of insider threats and potential database attacks. Its solutions provide clients with comprehensive insights into database activities and application interactions, enhancing situational awareness and security posture. DB CyberTech serves a diverse clientele, including financial institutions, healthcare providers, manufacturers, and government entities. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company was previously known as DB Networks before rebranding in May 2018.

SingleStore

Series B in 2014
SingleStore, Inc. is a provider of a relational database designed for cloud and on-premises transactions and analytics. The company offers a cloud database-as-a-service, known as SingleStore Managed Service, which enables analytics on the cloud of choice. Its flagship product, SingleStore DB, is a distributed SQL database that supports operational analytics on bare metal and hybrid cloud environments. SingleStore specializes in modernizing data platforms, securing government workloads, and facilitating IoT analytics, customer interactions, and risk management. It caters to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, media communications, energy, government, and retail. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company has additional offices in Seattle, Boston, Portland, Lisbon, and London. Initially known as MemSQL Inc., it rebranded to SingleStore, Inc. in October 2020.

ParStream

Series B in 2013
ParStream is an IoT analytics platform that specializes in real-time database technology designed to manage and analyze large volumes of IoT data. Founded in 2011 by Michael Hummel and Jörg Bienert, the platform focuses on providing timely and actionable insights through its unique column-oriented database and advanced indexing technology, which enables high-speed analytics at the edge. ParStream serves various industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, renewable energy, and telematics, and has garnered recognition as a leading big data startup. The platform's architecture supports low latency and high throughput, making it well-suited for real-time applications. It is compatible with common interface technologies such as JDBC and ODBC, ensuring easy integration into existing IT infrastructures. ParStream offers flexible deployment options, including single-server, clustered, and cloud editions, and operates on standard CPU infrastructure across most Linux distributions. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California, with additional offices in Cologne, Germany, and sales teams across Europe and Korea.

Realm

Series A in 2013
Realm (formerly tight.db) is a mobile database that enables its users to develop applications faster, develop applications that are fast, and craft amazing user experiences. Realm is a replacement for SQLite & Core Data. It can save users thousands of lines of code & weeks of work, and lets them craft amazing new user experiences. It is a Y Combinator company, headquartered in San Francisco.

DB CyberTech

Series B in 2013
DB CyberTech specializes in developing predictive data loss prevention technologies that safeguard business data through advanced security measures. The company employs deep protocol extraction, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to non-intrusively assess database infrastructures, allowing for the identification of insider threats and potential database attacks. Its solutions provide clients with comprehensive insights into database activities and application interactions, enhancing situational awareness and security posture. DB CyberTech serves a diverse clientele, including financial institutions, healthcare providers, manufacturers, and government entities. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company was previously known as DB Networks before rebranding in May 2018.

ParStream

Series A in 2012
ParStream is an IoT analytics platform that specializes in real-time database technology designed to manage and analyze large volumes of IoT data. Founded in 2011 by Michael Hummel and Jörg Bienert, the platform focuses on providing timely and actionable insights through its unique column-oriented database and advanced indexing technology, which enables high-speed analytics at the edge. ParStream serves various industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, renewable energy, and telematics, and has garnered recognition as a leading big data startup. The platform's architecture supports low latency and high throughput, making it well-suited for real-time applications. It is compatible with common interface technologies such as JDBC and ODBC, ensuring easy integration into existing IT infrastructures. ParStream offers flexible deployment options, including single-server, clustered, and cloud editions, and operates on standard CPU infrastructure across most Linux distributions. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California, with additional offices in Cologne, Germany, and sales teams across Europe and Korea.

Realm

Seed Round in 2011
Realm (formerly tight.db) is a mobile database that enables its users to develop applications faster, develop applications that are fast, and craft amazing user experiences. Realm is a replacement for SQLite & Core Data. It can save users thousands of lines of code & weeks of work, and lets them craft amazing new user experiences. It is a Y Combinator company, headquartered in San Francisco.
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