Khosla Ventures VIII

Khosla Ventures VIII is a multi-stage venture capital fund managed by Khosla Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most distinctive and high-conviction investment firms. Closed at $1.6 billion in 2023, Fund VIII represents the flagship vehicle in a broader $3.1 billion fundraise encompassing three parallel vehicles — Fund VIII ($1.6B), a Seed Fund ($500M), and a Growth Fund ($900M) — reflecting investor confidence in Khosla's research-intensive approach at a time when many competing firms were scaling back fund sizes. The fund deploys capital across companies developing transformative technologies in artificial intelligence, climate technology, nuclear fusion, humanoid robotics, biotechnology, and enterprise software. Khosla Ventures VIII invests at multiple lifecycle stages, from early-stage research ventures through growth companies with emerging product-market fit, providing patient capital alongside deep operational support. The fund invests primarily in the United States, concentrating in Silicon Valley and other leading technology hubs, with portfolio companies frequently built around fundamental scientific breakthroughs rather than incremental improvements. Khosla Ventures was co-founded by Vinod Khosla in 2004 following his tenure at Kleiner Perkins, where he had previously backed Sun Microsystems. The firm established its reputation through high-conviction, contra-conventional bets — often dismissed at inception — including early investments in Square (now Block), Affirm, DoorDash, Instacart, and OpenAI. Fund VIII continues this tradition, with particular emphasis on companies at the frontier of AI and climate solutions, where Khosla believes patient venture capital can unlock technologies with outsized economic and societal impact.