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“Typing is not natural.” -@vkhosla @sabi is betting the next interface for AI is thought itself: a sensor-lined baseball cap designed to turn brain signals into prompts. An ambitious vision, proud to back @rahulchhabra07 and the entire Sabi team.
Rahul Chhabra@rahulchhabra07·we've raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized, Kevin Weil, DST Global to build the world's most wearable BCI cap at Sabi read more here: forbes.com/sites/rashishr…
Quantum computing’s promise is enormous. @TeamOratomic is taking on the hard work of making it useful at scale. Congrats to the team on their Series B as they build a fault-tolerant quantum computer. Thrilled to back this mission!
Oratomic, Inc.@TeamOratomic·Oratomic has raised a Series B, bringing our total funding to $775M since our launch in March. We are on a focused mission to build a utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. Read more about our mission here: oratomic.com/news/mission
As AI drives content creation costs toward zero, every company can become a studio. Those teams need better tools to manage their work. Shade is building them, with early customer traction to match. Proud to back @bfan1256 and the @tryshadeinc team!
Brandon@bfan1256·As Q3 has just closed, I wanted to give a huge shout-out to our Shade team on the amazing progress this year — with a full quarter still to go: • Revenue up more than 6x over the past year • Signing enormous new logos every week — including leading consumer brands my mom would know such as Motorola, Carnival Cruise Line, and Hello Fresh; top tech companies including Webflow, Snowflake, and Clay; educational and public institutions such as Columbia University and The U.S. Dept. of Commerce; and some of my favorite entertainment brands and sports teams (which unfortunately we cannot name yet) • Shipped more than anyone in the industry, including launching our custom objects and automations platform that won us NAB Product of the Year Thanks to everyone! We’ll be announcing a bunch more innovative new product stuff at NAB NY in a few weeks.
Welcome to the KV portfolio, @Arena! As AI gets more powerful, the world needs an independent, data-driven way to measure not just what models can do, but whether they can be trusted. We’re excited to co-lead Arena’s Series B. Congrats to the team!
Arena.ai@arena·Today, we're announcing our Series B: $200M at a $3.1B valuation, and the release of Arena's Alignment Index. AI is advancing faster than our ability to evaluate it. The world needs a neutral third party to measure how safe and aligned AI actually is once it's in the hands of real people. That's the role Arena is stepping into today. The Alignment Index is built from real-world agent traces, starting with three signals: Unauthorized Action, False Attribution, and Deceptive Completion, with results for over 20 frontier models launching today. Hear more from our CEO @ml_angelopoulos below, and read the full breakdown, and more details about our company growth in thread. This funding will allow us to go further on safety signals, agentic capabilities, and modalities. It will also allow us to grow the company to match the scale of our mission. Today, we’re still a nimble team of 90, and we're looking for people to join us across research, product, engineering, and more. Come build with us. As AI gets more capable and autonomous, understanding how well it can safely and effectively work for people only matters more. That's what Arena is built to measure and advance. Thank you to our community, our investors, and everyone building with us! Take a look at our open roles if you want to join us (link in bio).
🤖 Congrats to the @AveaRobotics team on joining @FoundryRobotics! More builders bringing robots into the real world. 🤖
Foundry Robotics@FoundryRobotics·Foundry has acquired @AveaRobotics. @aryind_ and @vikramvadrevu are deeply technical and customer-obsessed and working together (as an early customer) was easy. Data collection and inference at scale power our factories and that makes Avea a natural fit. Welcome aboard!
“I think the most important thing in an agent, because it’s acting for you, is trust.” - @vkhosla @shivanipod and the @Wajo_ai team are building personal AI agents with trust and safety at the core. techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/vin…
Engineers can make better decisions when they see the physical consequences sooner. @VinciPhysics is making that possible as designs evolve. We’ve backed the team since seed and are proud to invest again in its Series B. Congratulations! 🎉
Vinci@VinciPhysics·$250M in new funding. A $1.5B valuation. A conviction that the way we engineer the physical world is about to change. Today, Vinci announces our Series B, co-led by @adventintl , @Temasek and Xora Innovation, with participation from @AMD Ventures, @EclipseVentures , @khoslaventures, @MadronaVentures and others. This investment backs a future where physics intelligence becomes foundational to how hardware is designed and built. For decades, engineers have rationed analysis, narrowed exploration and committed to decisions before knowing the physical consequences. Vinci’s Continuous Physics Reasoning makes deterministic, solver-accurate physical understanding continuously available as designs evolve. It is already running on more than 40 flagship production engineering programs. This round fuels our next chapter: expanding across more physics and more of the hardware economy, moving from understanding what will happen to helping engineers determine what should change. Semiconductors are the proving ground. The ambition reaches everything we build. Thank you to our customers, team and investors for making this possible. The next era of hardware engineering is taking shape. We’re building for it.
Torch Systems started with earlier wildfire detection. Its customers revealed a bigger need: seeing problems across critical infrastructure before they escalate. Congrats to the @torchsystemsusa team on $11.5M in funding to build toward that vision!
Axios@axios·Exclusive: Torch Systems raises $11.5M for grid monitoring axios.com/2026/10/06/tor…
Congrats to @masoudl and the @studiojadu team on the launch! Studio Jadu helps independent artists bring their stories to life through animation, keeping creative control in their hands and giving them a share of the revenue.
Masoud Loghmani@masoudl·1/ At Studio Jadu, we want to enable artists to create the future. Not mimic the past. Today, I’m excited to announce our formal launch, backed by Khosla Ventures and Shakti VC, and invite creators to join us. Read more in our launch blog post here: studiojadu.com/blog/creator-l…
America can't slow down on energy. @vkhosla joined @BloombergTV for a wide-ranging conversation, touching on energy, where AI stands today, and the tax reform op-ed he just published. The throughline: build out infrastructure, and let policy protect workers displaced by automation rather than trying to preserve individual jobs. Watch: t.co/M49n2RaDX8
@CFS_energy @MazamaEnergy @Subcritical_sys @RealtaFusion @MarianaMinerals @HerthaMetals @TeamOratomic
Thrilled to announce @TalBroda has joined Khosla Ventures! He’s bringing his experience building AI infrastructure to the founders we back. At OpenAI, he led more than a dozen teams that built and operated the hardware and software serving OpenAI’s models. He helped lead GPT-4.5 training, participated in the development of OpenAI’s first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, and contributed to Stargate. Previously, he headed up platform at Citadel Securities. He’s tackled the infrastructure challenges AI founders face firsthand, and we’re excited to have him in join KV! t.co/HgnUGpZgMG
Six generations in, and @eightsleep continues to change the way humans sleep. Proud as ever to be backing @m_franceschetti and the team!
Matteo Franceschetti@m_franceschetti·BREAKING: Pod 6 is live. The sixth generation of our intelligent sleep system, redesigned for every kind of bed. ✅ The new Hub is small enough to fit under your bed frame ✅ More powerful than ever ✅ With 9x more sensors for enhanced accuracy ✅ In new Solo sizes, at our lowest starting price yet This is our most significant hardware launch to date, and our most accessible. Available now at t.co/lg6mxNDj8W
Huge milestone for @Profound. Congrats to @thejamescad, @dbabbs and the entire team on the new round and the incredible momentum!
Profound@profound·We've raised a $180M Series D, co-led by @sequoia and @kleinerperkins. Winning in AI Search requires an inhuman amount of work. We're building the AI platform for marketers to do it, underpinned by two things: • Your AI Marketer, a marketing expert that investigates your data, identifies opportunities, and does the work while you stay in the loop. • Context Manager, a living synthesis of your meetings, email threads, and brand data. As your brand evolves, so does your AI Marketer. We're also expanding our applied AI research team to advance AI for marketing: post-training models for marketing workflows, and the first AI benchmark for real-world tasks in the field.
Exciting milestone for @FactoryAI! Congrats to @matanSF and the entire team on the new round. The future of software is autonomous and self-improving. 🚀🚀🚀
Factory@FactoryAI·We've raised $200M at a $5B valuation to scale self-improving software development in the enterprise. The round brings our total funding to over $400M and more than triples our $1.5B valuation from April.
“Support is becoming one of software’s biggest hidden costs. Decimal changes those economics entirely with an AI platform that understands the code and customer context as well as the best support engineers.” - @vkhosla We’re pleased to co-lead @Decimalcx’s seed round with @kearnyjackson. Congratulations to @HajarnisSanjeet, @cheriankevin, and the team. Welcome to the Khosla Ventures portfolio! 🥳
Kevin Cherian@cheriankevin·Nobody ever wanted a ticket. They want their problem solved. Today @HajarnisSanjeet I are beyond excited to announce our $4M seed round for @decimalcx, co-led by @khoslaventures and @kearnyjackson to bring engineering-level understanding to every customer interaction. Since inception, we’ve partnered with some of the best AI-native companies: @meetgranola, Omnea, Resilinc, @tealium, @GoBuildOps, @Lucidworks and a Fortune 5 company to help their support and engineering teams resolve customer problems.
The future of air power depends on what we can build at scale. @SwarmAero’s unveiling of Gamera marks a major milestone toward that future: an aircraft designed to pair global range and bomber-class payloads with low-cost mass production.
Swarm Aero@SwarmAero·Meet Gamera, a new category of Group 5 strike and sensing UAS that we unveiled at @AFA_Air_Space's Air, Space & Cyber Conference today. Mass-producible, significantly lower cost than legacy platforms, and the first UAS specifically designed to employ bomber-class strike munitions such as LRASM/JASSM-ER, Gamera delivers all of the capabilities needed in the next generation of UAS, at 10X lower cost-per-effect than legacy approaches to strike. With over 9,000 nautical miles of unrefueled range, Gamera's unique combination of low cost, large payload, and long range does not exist in any other UAS. Since 2022, Swarm has been designing and building Gamera to provide the low-cost persistent strike and sensing that the @usairforce's Massed Modular Aircraft program is now seeking, making the force more capable, survivable, and effective, and renewing U.S. dominance of the skies. Read our announcement here: t.co/Lw6UyL5T3s
Health insurance is overdue for a rebuild. @nara_benefits is taking it on from the ground up with AI, changing how people access and pay for care. Proud to back @sid_s17 and the Nara team.
Sid@sid_s17·Avant Health is now Nara Health @nara_benefits and we are proud to announce $14M in funding across pre seed and seed, led by @khoslaventures. Read more in @axios today from @BrockEWTurner: axios.com/pro/health-tec… Here’s why we built it.
America’s adversaries have moved into digital spaces that traditional institutions were never built to reach. @AslanProtects is changing that with AI operatives built for national security. We’re excited to welcome the team to the KV portfolio and co-lead this round alongside @xyz_vc.
Aslan@AslanProtects·The world moved online. Our adversaries went with it. We stayed outside, mistaking more collection for presence. Aslan is out of stealth with $20.8M to change that. The terrain is digital now. America should be there. Axios has the exclusive first look:
Congrats to the Split Pay team on $125M in Series A and B funding. Proud to be backing @endswithay alongside Thrive Capital and @mlevchin.
Andrew Borovsky@endswithay·Split Pay has grown 70X in the last year supercharged by our propriety AI underwriting model. And we’ve raised $125M from @ThriveCapital, @khoslaventures, and @mlevchin I’ll be on @TBPN today at 1:40p PT to share more about what we’re building.
The next frontier for AI is taking shape. @SamirKaul1 joined @EdLudlow on @BloombergTV to discuss why we believe so strongly in @DiscoLoopAI and why recursive self-improvement may be one of the most consequential opportunities ahead. bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…
Proud to be backing @VeedaAI as they come out of stealth today. They’re building the training ground robotics needs: somewhere robots can fail and learn before the stakes are real. @FidlerSanja, @ZGojcic, and @HuanLing6 spent years tackling some of simulation’s hardest problems at NVIDIA. We’re thrilled to support this exceptional founding team alongside @radicalvcfund.
Sanja Fidler@FidlerSanja·I’m incredibly excited to introduce @VeedaAI , which I co-founded with my incredible longtime collaborators @ZGojcic and @HuanLing6 . We started Veeda because we believe robotics will reshape the world—changing how we move people and goods, how we manufacture and build, and how we operate in the physical world. We also firmly believe that the scaling moment for Physical AI will come from robots learning through interaction with the world. Just like humans learn from interaction with their environments by trying, failing and trying again, until we succeed. And just like the capabilities of LLMs were truly unlocked when they started training in interactive environments and not only on vast amounts of internet text. For Physical AI, the central challenge is making this kind of interactive learning possible at scale. The real world is simply not a practical training ground for robots to learn through trial and error. It is unsafe, expensive, and time-consuming. To scale interactive learning, robots will need to learn in simulated reality. At Veeda, our sole mission is to build simulated reality for Physical AI. Our conviction is that this will become the critical infrastructure layer for all areas of robotics. As envisioned in pop culture, this means building “the Matrix” for Physical AI, where, through a virtual embodiment, robot intelligence can interact with an entirely virtual world in a million possible ways, learning from its own mistakes. We believe that World Models are the foundational technology that can make this possible. These generative models learn from massive amounts of sensor and physical-world data to reach the quality, diversity, and physical realism of the simulated reality that robots require. I could not be more excited to take on this challenge and build this transformative technology alongside an extraordinary team of engineers and researchers who have spent years working on some of the hardest problems across simulation, generative AI, 3D, robotics, and embodied intelligence. Together with our investors at @khoslaventures and @radicalvcfund , we intend to push the frontier of this technology and build the foundational infrastructure for interactive robotics learning and evaluation at scale. Come build this future with us. And to roboticists, help us understand what you need, we’re building this for you. t.co/76cpYJNaR7
Policy is full of data that's technically public but practically inaccessible. @StateAffairsUS is turning that data into a proprietary knowledge graph to power the AI platform for policy intelligence. @rabois joined Bloomberg's @RomaineBostick with State Affairs CEO Evan Burns to discuss why we backed State Affairs and the company's vision to make policy intelligence more accessible and actionable. t.co/1NfDccLhXX
We’re proud to back @WindBorneWx as they build the infrastructure for a new era of weather intelligence. Most of the atmosphere is still unobserved. WindBorne is changing that, giving forecasters data from places and conditions that have historically been nearly impossible to measure. The future of weather forecasting will depend on seeing what we can’t yet see. Congrats to the WindBorne team on the latest milestone. Excited to keep backing what they’re building.
WindBorne Systems@WindBorneWx·We recently flew balloons into the eye of a Category 4 typhoon. That data doesn’t exist anywhere else. We just raised $37M to make it routine.
Vinod Khosla joined @andrewrsorkin on @SquawkCNBC to discuss our recent investment in @DiscoveryLoop, the state of the AI race, and where he sees the biggest opportunities ahead. Watch the conversation: cnbc.com/video/2026/08/…
The AI arms race is transforming cybersecurity, and the advantage cannot belong to attackers. Proud to back @AlonPluda and @CormaAI as they build foundation models purpose-built for defensive cybersecurity. x.com/AlonPluda/stat…
Congrats to the @MarianaMinerals team on their $310M Series B. Critical minerals demand is only accelerating, and Mariana is building the vertically-integrated, end-to-end model the industry needs to meet it. Proud to lead this round alongside such a strong group of investors. x.com/MarianaMineral…
We backed @CFS_energy in 2019 when almost no other fund would touch fusion. Seven years later, @vkhosla calls it one of the most impactful and ambitious projects he's backed in his career. Congrats to @BobMumgaard and the entire CFS team on today's milestone. x.com/CFS_energy/sta…
We're thrilled to lead @dili_ai's $15M Series A. Dili is building the AI compliance and audit layer for America's infrastructure boom, giving Fortune 500 builders full visibility across high-stakes capital projects. In just 6 months, they've grown 500%, now powering $4B in project spend across 700+ projects. Congratulations to the entire Dili team!
AI's energy bottleneck isn't electricity. It's getting power to the right place at the right time. x.com/vkhosla/status…
Congrats to @berman66 and the team on @runlayer's $30M Series A. Enterprises want to go all in on AI, but the moment agents start acting, most teams can't see what they're doing or stop one going rogue. Runlayer is the golden path: enablement, security, and control in one platform. After backing the team at the seed, we're doubling down because governance isn't a tax on AI adoption. We see it as the unlock. Read the feature in @FortuneMagazine from @LilyMaeLazarus 👇
Last week, @ScaledCognition announced its $100M Series A. We led the round because in any industry where an agent takes a real action, a wrong answer is the only thing that counts - and they've built the model that won't give you one. The two Dans have taken the harder road, building a new architecture instead of putting a layer on top of a frontier model, to fix AI's reliability problem. Over the next year, companies running on their models are on track to automate more than a billion customer interactions. Congrats to @roth_dan, @profdanklein, and the entire team.
Most AI today has learned to see the world. The harder and more valuable problem is teaching it to predict what happens when someone acts in it. @gen_intuition is building the large action foundation models that do exactly that, trained on billions of clips from over 17M monthly active users on Medal. Congrats to the team on their $320M Series A. Large action models are the next big leap, and this category will produce several of the most valuable companies in AI. We're backing General Intuition because it's built to lead them.
Most enterprise AI is a co-pilot that makes you incrementally faster. @conveyAI built something different: AI teammates that own the outcome and run operations unattended. Over a million hours of work already done and customers like NBCUniversal, Samsara, and TelevisaUnivision. Congrats to @rohanbchopra and the team on their $38M Series A! We're proud to have backed Convey at the seed and are doubling down because they're building the AI workforce enterprises actually trust.
In tax, law, finance, and healthcare, a wrong answer isn't a hallucination. It's a liability. We're proud to have led @PramaanaLabs' $27M seed and to be backing a team building AI that's provably correct, not probabilistically correct: every output ships with mathematical proof. x.com/ranjan_vittal/…
New from @vkhosla in the @FT: "We will need a new tax code for the wealth AI creates." A technology optimist's case that the disruption is coming faster than most believe... and that the policy framework isn't ready. Read the full piece: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…
The future of mining, geothermal, and carbon storage starts with better subsurface intelligence. Congrats to @Terra_AI_HQ on building the AI-native platform for understanding what’s underground. Excited to continue our partnership with the team as they bring AI to one of the x.com/Terra_AI_HQ/st…
A landmark day for KV: @vkhosla named #1 on the @Forbes Midas List, 25 years after topping the inaugural edition. First at the birth of the internet. Now at AI’s defining moment. This year, he’s recognized for the first institutional check into @OpenAI – when others saw a
“When the cost of defense drops by an order of magnitude, the entire calculus of security changes. Exaforce is the architecture that makes that possible.” @vkhosla on why we backed @exaforce 🚀 x.com/exaforceAI/sta…
Thrilled to partner with you @grai_fm! 🥳 x.com/grai_fm/status…
“The biggest and baddest application of BCI is if you can talk to your computer by thinking about it.” @vkhosla on our investment in @sabicap -- building a thought-to-text interface that could redefine how we interact with computers. x.com/rahulchhabra07…
The next wave of robotics will be trained on the real world. @rhodaai is using millions of internet videos to teach robots how to operate in complex industrial environments. “The real world is messy, complex and being able to actually work on production lines is much, much
“The deepest value isn’t physics. It’s human intuition. A physics engine models how a drone moves; it can’t model how a skilled operator reacts when surprised. In surgery, it’s the feel for how the tissue responds to the scalpel. Train on human decision-making and you capture
Congrats to @Guild_ai on their Series A — universal by design and neutral across models, vendors, and frameworks. Excited to support the team turning agents into shared production infrastructure. x.com/GuildAI/status…
Huge congrats to the team at @ScienceCorp_! Proud to back this mission to restore vision and push the frontier of neural engineering and BCI innovation. Onward. 🚀 x.com/ScienceCorp_/s…
