Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The firm manages over $5 billion and focuses on investing in a diverse range of sectors, including consumer technology, enterprise solutions, education, healthcare, financial services, agriculture, sustainable energy, and robotics. Khosla Ventures provides not only capital but also strategic guidance to entrepreneurs, particularly in early-stage ventures, where it often supports innovative and unconventional projects. The firm seeks to back companies that are driven by breakthrough technologies, with investment sizes ranging from $100,000 to over $20 million. Khosla Ventures maintains a collaborative approach, frequently co-investing with other firms, including Kleiner Perkins, with which it has historical ties.

Alex Bentley

Partner and Investor

Ryno Blignaut

Operating Partner

Alice Brooks

Principal

Peter Buckland

COO, Partner, and Managing Director

Brian Byun

Operating Partner

Catherine Casuga

Operating Partner

Jonathan Chu

Partner and Investor

Jon Chu

Partner

Ece Erdagoz

Principal

Kanu Gulati

Partner

Judy Huang

Operating Partner

Jun Jeon

Principal

Kelly Kinnard

Operating Partner

Alexander Morgan

Partner

Nicholas Moryl

Associate

Arash Rebek

Partner, Capital Formation

Jessy Rivest

Partner and Investor

Jai Sajnani

Partner

Robbie Schwietzer

Operating Partner

Nikita Shamgunov

Partner and Investor

Sven Strohband

Managing Director

Rajesh Swaminathan

Partner and Investor

Adina Tecklu

Partner and Investor

Sandhya Venkatachalam

Partner

David Weiden

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Reze Wong

Partner

Ece Wyrick

Principal and Investor

Adam Coates Ph.D

Operating Partner

Kanupriya Gulati Ph.D

Partner and Investor

Past deals in Recruiting

MoonHub

Seed Round in 2023
Moonhub's mission is to create economic opportunity for every person on the planet. They built the world's first AI Recruiter to find and hire the perfect person for every single job opening.

Traba

Series A in 2022
Traba is a marketplace that connects light industrial workers with businesses to fill open shifts. Their focus is on opportunities in warehousing, distribution, and event staffing.

Remio

Seed Round in 2022
Remio delivers a pre-configured VR headset to each team member and hosts the entire team for fun team-building experiences. Known as one of "the most fun ways to connect business teams", the VR HQ also offers collaboration tools such as whiteboarding, Jira project planning, and presentation rooms.

HackerRank

Series D in 2022
HackerRank is a skills-based tech hiring platform that assists businesses in attracting, evaluating, and hiring top technical talent globally. With over 2,000 clients across various industries, including a significant portion of the Fortune 100, HackerRank aims to enhance the hiring process. The platform specializes in automated skill assessments, allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate candidates at each stage of recruitment. More than 11 million developers utilize HackerRank to learn and practice coding skills, with developers completing assessments every eight seconds. The company's focus on skill-based evaluation positions it as a valuable resource for organizations seeking to improve their technical hiring processes.

Emi Labs

Series A in 2022
Emi Labs S.A.S. operates an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment platform designed to enhance the hiring process for enterprises. Founded in 2017 and based in Vicente López, Argentina, with additional offices in Mountain View, California, and Mexico City, the company focuses on automating key aspects of recruitment, including candidate screening, interview scheduling, and communication. By leveraging AI technology, Emi Labs aims to shorten hiring cycles, improve efficiency, and boost recruiter productivity, all while enhancing the candidate experience and strengthening the employer brand for its clients.

Lattice

Series F in 2022
Lattice is a people management platform that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and performance. It combines continuous performance management with employee feedback, providing real-time analytics that generate actionable insights. This enables HR and People teams to support managers in developing their leadership skills and fosters a culture of high performance among employees. The platform streamlines the performance management process, allowing companies to efficiently conduct performance reviews and track employee goals throughout the year. Targeting primarily medium-sized organizations, Lattice aims to transform workplaces into environments where employees can thrive and succeed.

DevRev

Seed Round in 2021
DevRev is a business software company focused on connecting developers with customers in a product-led growth environment. It is developing an API-first, developer-centric customer relationship management system that utilizes data, design, and artificial intelligence to enhance product development and customer service. By empowering developers, DevRev aims to help businesses improve their productivity and foster customer-centric practices, particularly in addressing challenges such as low net promoter scores and high customer churn. The company's mission is to create a more collaborative ecosystem where developers can thrive, ultimately leading to happier customers and more successful products.

Lattice

Series E in 2021
Lattice is a people management platform that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and performance. It combines continuous performance management with employee feedback, providing real-time analytics that generate actionable insights. This enables HR and People teams to support managers in developing their leadership skills and fosters a culture of high performance among employees. The platform streamlines the performance management process, allowing companies to efficiently conduct performance reviews and track employee goals throughout the year. Targeting primarily medium-sized organizations, Lattice aims to transform workplaces into environments where employees can thrive and succeed.

Lattice

Series D in 2020
Lattice is a people management platform that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and performance. It combines continuous performance management with employee feedback, providing real-time analytics that generate actionable insights. This enables HR and People teams to support managers in developing their leadership skills and fosters a culture of high performance among employees. The platform streamlines the performance management process, allowing companies to efficiently conduct performance reviews and track employee goals throughout the year. Targeting primarily medium-sized organizations, Lattice aims to transform workplaces into environments where employees can thrive and succeed.

Emi Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Emi Labs S.A.S. operates an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment platform designed to enhance the hiring process for enterprises. Founded in 2017 and based in Vicente López, Argentina, with additional offices in Mountain View, California, and Mexico City, the company focuses on automating key aspects of recruitment, including candidate screening, interview scheduling, and communication. By leveraging AI technology, Emi Labs aims to shorten hiring cycles, improve efficiency, and boost recruiter productivity, all while enhancing the candidate experience and strengthening the employer brand for its clients.

Lattice

Series B in 2019
Lattice is a people management platform that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and performance. It combines continuous performance management with employee feedback, providing real-time analytics that generate actionable insights. This enables HR and People teams to support managers in developing their leadership skills and fosters a culture of high performance among employees. The platform streamlines the performance management process, allowing companies to efficiently conduct performance reviews and track employee goals throughout the year. Targeting primarily medium-sized organizations, Lattice aims to transform workplaces into environments where employees can thrive and succeed.

Pymetrics

Series B in 2018
Pymetrics, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing neuroscience-based assessment and prediction technology aimed at transforming the recruitment, retention, and development of employees. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, Pymetrics utilizes a combination of neuroscience and machine learning to create a talent matching platform. This platform collects behavioral data from successful professionals across various roles to identify key traits that distinguish top performers from the general population. By offering cognitive and emotional assessment solutions, along with a personalized recommendation engine, Pymetrics enhances the effectiveness and accuracy of the hiring process, while promoting unbiased recruitment practices.

HackerRank

Series C in 2018
HackerRank is a skills-based tech hiring platform that assists businesses in attracting, evaluating, and hiring top technical talent globally. With over 2,000 clients across various industries, including a significant portion of the Fortune 100, HackerRank aims to enhance the hiring process. The platform specializes in automated skill assessments, allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate candidates at each stage of recruitment. More than 11 million developers utilize HackerRank to learn and practice coding skills, with developers completing assessments every eight seconds. The company's focus on skill-based evaluation positions it as a valuable resource for organizations seeking to improve their technical hiring processes.

Pymetrics

Series A in 2017
Pymetrics, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing neuroscience-based assessment and prediction technology aimed at transforming the recruitment, retention, and development of employees. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, Pymetrics utilizes a combination of neuroscience and machine learning to create a talent matching platform. This platform collects behavioral data from successful professionals across various roles to identify key traits that distinguish top performers from the general population. By offering cognitive and emotional assessment solutions, along with a personalized recommendation engine, Pymetrics enhances the effectiveness and accuracy of the hiring process, while promoting unbiased recruitment practices.

Lattice

Series A in 2017
Lattice is a people management platform that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and performance. It combines continuous performance management with employee feedback, providing real-time analytics that generate actionable insights. This enables HR and People teams to support managers in developing their leadership skills and fosters a culture of high performance among employees. The platform streamlines the performance management process, allowing companies to efficiently conduct performance reviews and track employee goals throughout the year. Targeting primarily medium-sized organizations, Lattice aims to transform workplaces into environments where employees can thrive and succeed.

Sense

Series A in 2017
Sense is an automated communication and engagement platform specifically designed for enterprise recruiting teams and the staffing industry. The platform aims to enhance talent engagement by providing tools that help reduce turnover and increase re-deployment rates. It offers a real-time, comprehensive view of consultants, enabling organizations to better understand their workforce dynamics. Based in San Francisco, Sense has attracted investment from notable venture capital firms, including Accel, GV, Khosla Ventures, Signia Ventures, and IDG SF.

HackerRank

Series B in 2016
HackerRank is a skills-based tech hiring platform that assists businesses in attracting, evaluating, and hiring top technical talent globally. With over 2,000 clients across various industries, including a significant portion of the Fortune 100, HackerRank aims to enhance the hiring process. The platform specializes in automated skill assessments, allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate candidates at each stage of recruitment. More than 11 million developers utilize HackerRank to learn and practice coding skills, with developers completing assessments every eight seconds. The company's focus on skill-based evaluation positions it as a valuable resource for organizations seeking to improve their technical hiring processes.

Pymetrics

Series A in 2016
Pymetrics, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing neuroscience-based assessment and prediction technology aimed at transforming the recruitment, retention, and development of employees. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, Pymetrics utilizes a combination of neuroscience and machine learning to create a talent matching platform. This platform collects behavioral data from successful professionals across various roles to identify key traits that distinguish top performers from the general population. By offering cognitive and emotional assessment solutions, along with a personalized recommendation engine, Pymetrics enhances the effectiveness and accuracy of the hiring process, while promoting unbiased recruitment practices.

PatternEx

Series A in 2016
When your goal is to bring Artificial Intelligence to InfoSec, you better have the skills to back it up. Knowing the scope of the problem we were attacking, we set about identifying and recruiting the top minds in four key areas: Artificial Intelligence, distributed systems, operational security, and go-to-market. This team and the advances in information technology that they have produced-- Active Contextual Modeling--are changing the world of information security. For the better.

Lattice

Seed Round in 2016
Lattice is a people management platform that helps organizations enhance employee engagement and performance. It combines continuous performance management with employee feedback, providing real-time analytics that generate actionable insights. This enables HR and People teams to support managers in developing their leadership skills and fosters a culture of high performance among employees. The platform streamlines the performance management process, allowing companies to efficiently conduct performance reviews and track employee goals throughout the year. Targeting primarily medium-sized organizations, Lattice aims to transform workplaces into environments where employees can thrive and succeed.

ScoreBeyond

Seed Round in 2015
Scorebeyond,Inc. develops test preparation and examination software for mobile platforms. It offers applications for the preparation and training of SAT, GMAT, GRE, and TOFFEL. The company offers its service through its Internet platform. Its platform also allows creating quiz or sampling exam to test knowledge or skills. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Lever

Series A in 2014
Lever, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in talent acquisition software aimed at mid-sized and enterprise organizations. Its primary product, Lever Hire, integrates applicant tracking system (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) functionalities into a single platform. The software facilitates the entire hiring process, allowing teams to post jobs, source candidates, conduct interviews, and make hiring decisions. Additionally, Lever offers a suite of tools that enhance recruitment marketing and analytics, including Lever Nurture, Lever Talent Intelligence, and Lever Data Warehouse Sync. With a diverse clientele that includes notable companies such as Netflix, Mercedes-Benz, KPMG, and Spotify, Lever has established itself as a prominent player in the recruitment technology sector.

Relcy

Venture Round in 2014
Relcy, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing a search engine designed to enhance mobile search capabilities. Founded in 2013, Relcy's technology enables users to search across all content on their mobile devices, including applications and real-world information, in a more efficient manner. The search engine utilizes a knowledge graph comprising millions of real-world entities, offering a personalized and contextually aware search experience. By understanding users' locations and intentions, Relcy aims to streamline the process of finding information, making mobile searches faster and more intuitive.

Teleborder

Seed Round in 2014
Teleborder helps companies hire, manage and retain international employees. Our software platform enables companies to manage immigration, reporting, and compliance all in one place, and our network of providers deliver related services through our platform. Our customers range from small startups to large corporations, and our investors include Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, IDG, and others.

Pymetrics

Seed Round in 2013
Pymetrics, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing neuroscience-based assessment and prediction technology aimed at transforming the recruitment, retention, and development of employees. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, Pymetrics utilizes a combination of neuroscience and machine learning to create a talent matching platform. This platform collects behavioral data from successful professionals across various roles to identify key traits that distinguish top performers from the general population. By offering cognitive and emotional assessment solutions, along with a personalized recommendation engine, Pymetrics enhances the effectiveness and accuracy of the hiring process, while promoting unbiased recruitment practices.

Simpler

Seed Round in 2013
We started Simpler because after years of working in high-growth companies, we realized how important good onboarding is to the success of new hires. But it almost always goes neglected, because it's a painful process and good tools are hard to come by. We're fixing that with Simpler.

Evolv

Series D in 2013
Evolv is a data-driven company that addresses workforce performance challenges through its cloud-based platform. By integrating and enhancing existing data from various systems, Evolv's technology platform provides actionable insights into workforce dynamics. This enables executives to understand the underlying factors affecting employee performance, leading to informed operational decisions. The company offers on-demand talent matching and intelligence services, utilizing a web-based selection and assessment process. Its algorithms are calibrated using real-world employee data, which helps employers find better matches for their available positions. Evolv's approach aims to reduce employee turnover, boost productivity, and enhance operating margins, ultimately delivering significant financial value to organizations.

HackerRank

Series A in 2011
HackerRank is a skills-based tech hiring platform that assists businesses in attracting, evaluating, and hiring top technical talent globally. With over 2,000 clients across various industries, including a significant portion of the Fortune 100, HackerRank aims to enhance the hiring process. The platform specializes in automated skill assessments, allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate candidates at each stage of recruitment. More than 11 million developers utilize HackerRank to learn and practice coding skills, with developers completing assessments every eight seconds. The company's focus on skill-based evaluation positions it as a valuable resource for organizations seeking to improve their technical hiring processes.

Evolv

Series C in 2011
Evolv is a data-driven company that addresses workforce performance challenges through its cloud-based platform. By integrating and enhancing existing data from various systems, Evolv's technology platform provides actionable insights into workforce dynamics. This enables executives to understand the underlying factors affecting employee performance, leading to informed operational decisions. The company offers on-demand talent matching and intelligence services, utilizing a web-based selection and assessment process. Its algorithms are calibrated using real-world employee data, which helps employers find better matches for their available positions. Evolv's approach aims to reduce employee turnover, boost productivity, and enhance operating margins, ultimately delivering significant financial value to organizations.
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