Venture firm in listed AI tools
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures has backed 14 companies behind 27 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Anrok, Inc. Series B, April 2024, led a round
ClickHouse Series C, May 2025, Series D, January 2026, led a round
Source clickhouse.com/blog/…
Factory Series C, April 2026, $200M round, September 2026, led a round
Source factory.com/news/series-c
Fireflies.AI Corp. Series A, May 2021, led a round
Source fireflies.ai/blog/…
Glean Technologies, Inc. Series F, June 2025
Source glean.com/press/…
OpenAI $6.6B round, October 2024
- GPT-Live B · Conversational voice agents
- gpt-oss-120b BB · Open-weight models
- gpt-oss-20b B · Open-weight models
- OpenAI Agents SDK AA · Agent frameworks & SDKs
- OpenAI API A · Model APIs & inference
- OpenAI Codex BB · Agent harnesses
- OpenAI Decisions API BB · Decision models
- Dots F · Personal assistants
- OpenAI embeddings BB · Embeddings & rerankers
- OpenAI Guardrails B · Guardrails & safety filters
- OpenAI Image API BB · Image generation
- OpenAI Moderation API BB · Guardrails & safety filters
- OpenAI Realtime API B · Conversational voice agents
- OpenAI Speech to Text BB · Speech-to-text
Source nbcnews.com/business/…
GrowthBook, Inc.
Source growthbook.io/about
Kognitos, Inc.
Source kognitos.com/about-us
DanswerAI, Inc. (Onyx, formerly Danswer) Seed, March 2025, led a round
Source techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/…
Parallel Web Systems Series A, November 2025, Series B, April 2026
Source parallel.ai/blog/series-a
Ramp Business Corporation Series D-2, April 2024, led a round
Source ramp.com/blog/…
Recraft Series A, January 2024, Series B, May 2025, led a round
Source recraft.ai/press-releases/…
Conway Research (maker of Underdog) First round, April 2026
Source underdog.ai/backers
Conway Research First round, April 2026
Source underdog.ai/backers
Where they invest
Agent harnesses 2 Company knowledge & data catalogues 2 Conversational voice agents 2 Open-weight models 2 Guardrails & safety filters 2 Image generation 2 Speech-to-text 2 Tax calculation & compliance 1 Databases & files 1 Meeting capture & meeting infrastructure 1 Agent frameworks & SDKs 1 Model APIs & inference 1 Decision models 1 Personal assistants 1 Embeddings & rerankers 1 Product analytics & experimentation 1 Workflow automation 1 Web search APIs 1 Spend management & procurement 1 Local AI 1
Founders they backed
- Aaron Katz ClickHouse
- Alexey Milovidov ClickHouse
- Yury Izrailevsky ClickHouse
- Matan Grinberg Factory
- Eno Reyes Factory
- Arvind Jain Glean Technologies, Inc.
- T.R. Vishwanath Glean Technologies, Inc.
- Tony Gentilcore Glean Technologies, Inc.
- Sam Altman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Elon Musk OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Greg Brockman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Ilya Sutskever OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- John Schulman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Wojciech Zaremba OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Trevor Blackwell OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Vicki Cheung OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Andrej Karpathy OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Durk Kingma OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Pamela Vagata OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- Graham McNicoll GrowthBook, Inc.
- Jeremy Dorn GrowthBook, Inc.
- Binny Gill Kognitos, Inc.
- Parag Agrawal Parallel Web Systems
- Sigil Wen Conway Research (maker of Underdog), Conway Research
Questions
Which AI tools has Khosla Ventures invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Anrok, Inc., ClickHouse, Factory, Fireflies.AI Corp., Glean Technologies, Inc., OpenAI, GrowthBook, Inc., Kognitos, Inc., DanswerAI, Inc. (Onyx, formerly Danswer), Parallel Web Systems, Ramp Business Corporation, Recraft, Conway Research (maker of Underdog) and Conway Research backed by Khosla Ventures.
How are Khosla Ventures's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Anrok (C, 61.6), ClickHouse MCP Server (B, 64.6), Droid CLI (C, 59.1), Fireflies.ai (C, 60.7), Glean (B, 69.9), GPT-Live (B, 66.9), gpt-oss-120b (BB, 70.2), gpt-oss-20b (B, 69.9), OpenAI Agents SDK (AA, 86.2), OpenAI API (A, 82.9), OpenAI Codex (BB, 73.5), OpenAI Decisions API (BB, 73.1), Dots (F, 28.8), OpenAI embeddings (BB, 72.2), OpenAI Guardrails (B, 69.5), OpenAI Image API (BB, 72.4), OpenAI Moderation API (BB, 71.4), OpenAI Realtime API (B, 63.4), OpenAI Speech to Text (BB, 72.6), GrowthBook (BB, 70.1), Kognitos (C, 57), Onyx (B, 65.1), Parallel Search and Task APIs (BB, 75.1), Ramp (C, 57.3), Recraft API (D, 52.9), Underdog (F, 30.1) and Underdog Bark 3.0 (D, 48.2).
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