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

Ryno Blignaut

Operating Partner

Alice Brooks

Partner

Peter Buckland JD

COO, Partner, and Managing Director

Brian Byun

Venture Partner

Catherine Casuga

Operating Partner

Jon Chu

Partner

Adam Coates Ph.D

Operating Partner

Ardy Daie

Operating Partner

Bryan Gartner

Partner

Kanu Gulati

Partner

Kanupriya Gulati Ph.D

Partner and Investor

Judy Huang

Operating Partner

Jun Jeon

Principal

Samir Kaul

Founding General Partner

Vinod Khosla

Managing Director

Kelly Kinnard

Operating Partner

Alex Morgan

Partner

Nabeel Quryshi

Associate

Arash Rebek JD

Partner, Capital Formation

Jessy Rivest

Partner

Jai Sajnani

Partner

Leah Scanlan

Operating Partner

Nikita Shamgunov

Partner

Sven Strohband

Managing Director

Rajesh Swaminathan

Partner and Investor

Adina Tecklu

Partner

David Weiden

Partner

Reze Wong

Partner

Ece Erdagoz Wyrick

Principal

Past deals in Real Time

Playback

Venture Round in 2025
Playback is a sports streaming platform that facilitates a social viewing experience for users. It offers online rooms where individuals can watch sports matches together, engage in real-time interactions, and participate in live podcasts. This unique approach allows customers to enjoy sporting events collectively while enabling podcasters to connect with their audiences effectively. Through its innovative platform, Playback aims to enhance the way sports fans experience games by fostering community and interaction during broadcasts.

Paladin Drones

Seed Round in 2024
Paladin Drones Inc. is a technology company based in Berkeley, California, established in 2018. The company specializes in developing software that enhances the capabilities of drones to support first responders during emergencies. Upon receiving a 911 call, Paladin's software automatically dispatches a drone to the incident location, providing immediate situational awareness through a live video feed streamed back to the responders' application. This system simplifies the deployment process by managing various factors in the background, such as security, safety, weather conditions, and route planning, allowing emergency personnel to focus on their critical tasks.

Replit

Series B in 2023
Replit is a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) founded in 2016. It enables collaborative coding across platforms using over 50 programming languages. Users can build apps and websites, share projects, create communal workspaces, and execute code via containers, all within a browser on any operating system.

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.

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.

Tempo

Series A in 2019
Tempo designs and develops a home fitness platform with personal guidance to help users in their training sessions. It features live elite trainers who can help users when they make mistakes. It has built-in three-dimensional sensors that track form, counts reps, and recommend weights. It helps users to improve in real-time. Powered by 3D motion sensors and AI, it analyzes 25 of the body’s essential joints as users work out and gives understood form feedback. Moawia Eldeeb and Joshua Augustin founded it as Pivot in 2015, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Paladin Drones

Seed Round in 2019
Paladin Drones Inc. is a technology company based in Berkeley, California, established in 2018. The company specializes in developing software that enhances the capabilities of drones to support first responders during emergencies. Upon receiving a 911 call, Paladin's software automatically dispatches a drone to the incident location, providing immediate situational awareness through a live video feed streamed back to the responders' application. This system simplifies the deployment process by managing various factors in the background, such as security, safety, weather conditions, and route planning, allowing emergency personnel to focus on their critical tasks.

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.

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.

Nom

Series A in 2016
Nom is a live and interactive video community platform that enables users to host professional cooking, creative, and DIY shows. It provides an application tailored for food enthusiasts, allowing them to create, share, and watch their favorite culinary stories in real-time. By tapping into a network of makers, creators, and chefs, Nom empowers individuals to direct, produce, and host their own food shows, fostering a vibrant community centered around culinary exploration and creativity.

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.

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.

Tempo

Seed Round in 2015
Tempo designs and develops a home fitness platform with personal guidance to help users in their training sessions. It features live elite trainers who can help users when they make mistakes. It has built-in three-dimensional sensors that track form, counts reps, and recommend weights. It helps users to improve in real-time. Powered by 3D motion sensors and AI, it analyzes 25 of the body’s essential joints as users work out and gives understood form feedback. Moawia Eldeeb and Joshua Augustin founded it as Pivot in 2015, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

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.

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.

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.

BlockScore

Seed Round in 2014
BlockScore provides real-time identity verification services.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reloaded Games

Series B in 2007
Reloaded Games, Inc. (formerly K2 Network) is a leading publisher of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG). Current titles include War Rock, Global MU Online, Sword of the World, and Knight Online. Using a free-to-play model they have grown to over 8.5 million players in 10 countries, making them the largest network in the Western Hemisphere.

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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