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Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California. As of 2017, it was managing $5 billion in assets. It invests primarily in emerging technology, biotech, agricultural, and clean-tech companies, among others.

History
Khosla Ventures was founded by Vinod Khosla in 2004. Initially, Mr. Khosla created the firm to invest in technology companies, especially clean-tech, using his own money. By 2007, Khosla Ventures was the most active venture capital firm in the green technology sector and had invested in more than 70 companies.

In 2009, Khosla Ventures raised $1 billion in funding for investing in green-tech companies. At the time, the firm's investments were funded by its partners, but this was its first funding round where it raised money from outside investors. $750 million was put into Khosla Ventures III for early to mid-stage companies and $250 million was devoted to high-risk seed funding in early startups. Khosla Ventures raised another $1 billion in 2010 and 2011 in Khosla Ventures IV and Khosla Ventures Seed B.

Many of Khosla Ventures' early investments were in biofuel and clean energy. The firm invested in a variety of competing biofuel methods that use different raw materials. Khosla invested $340 million in Kior, which made biofuels from grass, wood, and animal waste. The firm also invested in Sakti3, a lithium-ion battery startup.

As of 2010, Khosla Ventures had about $1.1 billion invested in the green technology sector. From 2010 to at least 2015, Khosla Ventures began investing more heavily in agricultural companies. For example, it invested in Hampton Creek Foods (now called Just, Inc.), which makes alternatives to food products conventionally made with eggs.

Investments
Most of Khosla Ventures' investments range from $2 million for small, high-risk investments in experimental technologies, to $5 to $15 million for early to mid-stage companies. As of 2017, the firm had $5 billion in investments under management. It typically operates a main fund for startups and a seed fund for investing in early-stage companies. Khosla Ventures made early investments in Stripe, Impossible Foods, and Opendoor.