help to improve it or discuss the issue on the talk page . december 2015 khosla ventures type private industry private equity founded 2004 founder vinod khosla headquarters menlo park california united states products venture capital total assets 1.3 billion website www.khoslaventures.com khosla ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage companies in the internet computing mobile silicon technology and clean technology sectors that was founded by vinod khosla . 1 2 the firm is based in menlo park california and manages approximately 1.3 billion of investor capital as well as earlier funds funded by khosla . history edit the firm was founded in 2004 by vinod khosla a former general partner of kleiner perkins caufield & byers . the firm s first two investment vehicles were funded with khosla s own personal capital and were not open to institutional investors . in march 2009 pierre lamond became general partner . 3 in december 2009 khosla completed fundraising for two new funds to invest in cleantech and information technology start ups . khosla ventures fund iii secured 1 billion of investor commitments to invest in traditional early stage and growth stage companies . khosla also raised 300 million for khosla seed which will invest in higher risk opportunities and science experiments . 4 the firm has invested in bio refineries for energy and bioplastics solar wind battery engines led hvac efficiency and other environmentally friendly technologies . 5 6 the company focuses on technology risk based investing in very large markets . some companies funded by khosla ventures include tapingo academia.edu amyris bloom energy db networks ecomotors greatpoint energy panzura seamicro cogenra solar snip.it relcy and thync . 7 8 as of october 2015 update khosla ventures is one of the five largest and most active investors in the space sector which has had over us 10 billion of private capital invested in it since 2005 . 9 references edit lacy sarah july 3 2009 . vinod khosla risk junkie . techcrunch . bloomberg businessweek profile . businessweek.com . marshall matt 3 march 2009 . pierre lamond the vc who scared the youtube guys joins khosla . venturebeat . retrieved 8 january 2011 . khosla ventures piles up 1 billion for green tech . cnet news september 1 2009 venture firm s green funds top 1 billion . new york times august 31 2009 wauters robin may 19 2011 . khosla ventures is raising like a billion dollars . techcrunch . relcy is building a pagerank style mobile app search engine with 9m from khosla and sequoia . techcrunch . 17 july 2014 . darrell larry 9 october 2014 . thync raises 13 million in funding led by khosla ventures ; combines neuroscience and consumer tech . bidnessetc . nordrum amy 2015 10 09 . space advocate makes business case for private company exploration of extraterrestrial resources . international business times . retrieved 2015 10 10 . khosla ventures goes retro for new blood . new york times march 3 2009 venture capital firm embraces green technology . new york times spotlight external links edit company website v t e private equity and venture capital basic investment types buyout venture mezzanine growth secondaries equity co investment history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s terms and concepts buyout financial sponsor management buyout divisional buyout buy sell agreement leveraged recapitalization dividend recapitalization venture angel investor business incubator post money valuation pre money valuation seed money startup company venture capital financing venture debt venture round structure private equity firms and funds limited partnership limited liability company carried interest management fee publicly traded private equity business development company venture capital trust private investment in public equity pipe pledge fund investors corporations institutional investors pension funds insurance companies fund of funds endowments foundations investment banks merchant banks commercial banks high net worth individuals family offices sovereign wealth funds crowdfunding related financial terms aum cap table capital call capital commitment capital structure distribution waterfall ebitda envy ratio high yield debt ipo irr leverage liquidation preference m & a pme taxation of private equity and hedge funds undercapitalization vintage year private equity and venture capital investors private equity firms venture capital firms angel investors portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title khosla ventures & oldid 701938587 categories venture capital firms of the united statesamerican companies established in 2004companies based in menlo park californiafinancial services companies established in 2004hidden categories articles to be expanded from december 2015articles containing potentially dated statements from october 2015all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 january 2016 at 13 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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