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Khosla Ventures

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73 articles decelerating

A nine-story peak in 2026Q2 centered on Khosla Ventures-led rounds spanning AI reliability, mining, quantum computing and hypersonic defense.

Who they are

Khosla Ventures appears in coverage as a venture-capital investor and frequent lead or co-lead financier of technology startups, with its role most often defined by funding rounds in AI, robotics, industrial software, healthcare and defense-adjacent businesses.

The recent arc

Coverage reached its all-time quarterly high in 2026Q2, driven by a concentrated run of portfolio financings: Khosla Ventures led Scaled Cognition’s $100M Series A, Pramaana Labs’ $27M seed round and Terra AI’s $20M Series A, while also participated in Convey’s $38M Series A alongside Andreessen Horowitz and Pear VC. The deals foregrounded an AI investment thesis extending beyond general-purpose models into agent reliability, formal verification, workflow automation and mining-resource mapping.

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The tension

The coverage centers on whether AI investment can translate into dependable, real-world systems rather than only model development: Pramaana Labs is pursuing deterministic LLM verification, Scaled Cognition emphasizes reliability, and Terra AI applies models to industrial mining. Khosla Ventures is funding across that stack while sharing rounds with firms including ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Connect Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, placing it amid an increasingly crowded contest to back the infrastructure and applications of AI.

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, Khosla Ventures’ coverage will increasingly track the commercial and strategic deployment of advanced computing in physical industries and national-security-adjacent fields, not just software startups. The breadth of recent bets—from Monumental’s construction robotics to Oratomic’s quantum systems and Hermeus’ unmanned hypersonic aircraft—also raises the execution bar: the relevance of the portfolio will depend on whether technically ambitious companies can turn large rounds into working, scalable products.

Khosla Ventures has appeared in 73 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2026Q2 with 9 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside AI, Khosla, Microsoft, Keith Rabois.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-07-24
Forbes

Sources: Cognition, which makes the coding assistant Devin, is in talks to raise $300M+ at a $10B valuation; it was reportedly valued at $4B in March

The deal, backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, comes as the startup announced it is buying up the remains of rival Windsurf.  —  SaveComment Bluesky: @rashis Bluesky: Rashi Shrivastava / @rash...

2025-01-28
Reuters 5 related

AI enterprise service management startup Atomicwork raised a $25M Series A led by Khosla Ventures and Z47, a source says at a $150M valuation

Kritika Lamba / Reuters :

2021-07-07
Axios 11 related

Nextdoor announces that it has agreed to go public via a SPAC sponsored by Khosla Ventures at an implied valuation of $4.3B

2021-07-06
Axios 6 related

Nextdoor announces that it has agreed to go public via a SPAC sponsored by Khosla Ventures at an implied valuation of $4.3B

Nextdoor, the neighborhood social network in more than 275,000 global communities, announced that is has agreed to go public via a SPAC sponsored by Khosla Ventures — at an implied valuation of $4.3 b...

2019-11-04
VentureBeat 2 related

Volterra emerges from stealth with $50M in backing from Khosla Ventures, Microsoft, Itochu, Samsung, and others to automate distributed app management

Orchestrating data management across distributed apps is no easy feat.  Just ask former Aruba and Juniper Networks veterans Ankur Singla …

2017-07-01
Wall Street Journal 2 related

Xcalar, which wants to use big data to provide business insights, announces $16M Series A led by Khosla Ventures; firm has partnerships with Microsoft, Google

Cat Zakrzewski / Wall Street Journal :

2017-06-30
Wall Street Journal 2 related

Xcalar, which wants to use big data to provide business insights, announces $16M Series A led by Khosla Ventures; firm has partnerships with Microsoft, Google

The round will fuel the company as it takes on Palantir in big data for business analytics.

2016-04-05
VentureBeat 13 related

Salesforce acquires MetaMind, a deep learning startup backed by Marc Benioff and Khosla Ventures; services to be discontinued in May

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :

2015-10-21
Bloomberg Business

Former YouTube exec's startup, Krypton, now valued at $400M, has raised at least $25M to compete against Microsoft Office; latest round led by Khosla Ventures

Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg Business : Tweets: @jyarow Tweets: Jay Yarow / @jyarow : Everyone wants to kill Office. Nobody has. Seems like such a juicy target, but Microsoft very strong there. http://w...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

TEXXR tracks 71 tech news articles mentioning Khosla Ventures, dating back to December 2014. The biggest stories include Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments after border... and Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raised a $200M Series B led by Uber and Khosla.... Frequently covered alongside General Catalyst, Microsoft, TechCrunch, Google, and Vivodyne. Coverage has shifted toward consumer themes and away from developer, enterprise.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise +25pts; developer -50pts; research +25pts
2024Q4enterprise -25pts; research -25pts
2025Q1enterprise +100pts; developer -50pts

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