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  "markdown": "Venture firm.\n\nWebsite: https://www.khoslaventures.com\n\n## Companies on Anchor Terminal\n\n- **Anrok, Inc.**, Series B, April 2024, led a round\n  - [Anrok](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anrok.md), graded C, 61.6/100\n  - Source: https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/anrok-raises-30m-to-be-the-tax-compliance-infrastructure-behind-the-digital-economy\n- **ClickHouse**, Series C, May 2025, Series D, January 2026, led a round\n  - [ClickHouse MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clickhouse-mcp-server.md), graded B, 64.6/100\n  - Source: https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-raises-350-million-series-c-to-power-analytics-for-ai-era\n- **Factory**, Series C, April 2026, $200M round, September 2026, led a round\n  - [Droid CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/droid-cli.md), graded C, 59.1/100\n  - Source: https://factory.com/news/series-c\n- **Fireflies.AI Corp.**, Series A, May 2021, led a round\n  - [Fireflies.ai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fireflies.md), graded C, 60.7/100\n  - Source: https://fireflies.ai/blog/fireflies-ai-raises-14-million-series-a-to-automate-work-from-meetings\n- **Glean Technologies, Inc.**, Series F, June 2025\n  - [Glean](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.md), graded B, 69.9/100\n  - Source: https://www.glean.com/press/glean-raises-150m-series-f-at-7-2b-valuation-to-accelerate-enterprise-ai-agent-innovation-globally\n- **OpenAI**, $6.6B round, October 2024\n  - [GPT-Live](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt-live.md), graded B, 66.9/100\n  - [gpt-oss-120b](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt-oss-120b.md), graded BB, 70.2/100\n  - [gpt-oss-20b](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt-oss-20b.md), graded B, 69.9/100\n  - [OpenAI Agents SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-agents-sdk.md), graded AA, 86.2/100\n  - [OpenAI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-api.md), graded A, 82.9/100\n  - [OpenAI Codex](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-codex.md), graded BB, 73.5/100\n  - [OpenAI Decisions API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-decisions-api.md), graded BB, 73.1/100\n  - [Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots.md), graded F, 28.8/100\n  - [OpenAI embeddings](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-embeddings.md), graded BB, 72.2/100\n  - [OpenAI Guardrails](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-guardrails.md), graded B, 69.5/100\n  - [OpenAI Image API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api.md), graded BB, 72.4/100\n  - [OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-moderation.md), graded BB, 71.4/100\n  - [OpenAI Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-realtime.md), graded B, 63.4/100\n  - [OpenAI Speech to Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-speech-to-text.md), graded BB, 72.6/100\n  - Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/openai-closes-funding-157-billion-valuation-microsoft-nvidia-softbank-rcna173693\n- **GrowthBook, Inc.**\n  - [GrowthBook](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/growthbook.md), graded BB, 70.1/100\n  - Source: https://www.growthbook.io/about\n- **Kognitos, Inc.**\n  - [Kognitos](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kognitos.md), graded C, 57/100\n  - Source: https://www.kognitos.com/about-us/\n- **DanswerAI, Inc. (Onyx, formerly Danswer)**, Seed, March 2025, led a round\n  - [Onyx](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onyx.md), graded B, 65.1/100\n  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/why-onyx-thinks-its-open-source-solution-will-win-enterprise-search/\n- **Parallel Web Systems**, Series A, November 2025, Series B, April 2026\n  - [Parallel Search and Task APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallel-search-api.md), graded BB, 75.1/100\n  - Source: https://parallel.ai/blog/series-a\n- **Ramp Business Corporation**, Series D-2, April 2024, led a round\n  - [Ramp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ramp.md), graded C, 57.3/100\n  - Source: https://ramp.com/blog/ramp-april-2024-funding\n- **Recraft**, Series A, January 2024, Series B, May 2025, led a round\n  - [Recraft API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recraft.md), graded D, 52.9/100\n  - Source: https://www.recraft.ai/press-releases/series-a-announcement\n- **Conway Research (maker of Underdog)**, First round, April 2026\n  - [Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog.md), graded F, 30.1/100\n  - Source: https://underdog.ai/backers\n- **Conway Research**, First round, April 2026\n  - [Underdog Bark 3.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog-bark-3.md), graded D, 48.2/100\n  - Source: https://underdog.ai/backers\n\n## Where they invest\n\n- Agent harnesses, 2\n- Company knowledge \u0026 data catalogues, 2\n- Conversational voice agents, 2\n- Open-weight models, 2\n- Guardrails \u0026 safety filters, 2\n- Image generation, 2\n- Speech-to-text, 2\n- Tax calculation \u0026 compliance, 1\n- Databases \u0026 files, 1\n- Meeting capture \u0026 meeting infrastructure, 1\n- Agent frameworks \u0026 SDKs, 1\n- Model APIs \u0026 inference, 1\n- Decision models, 1\n- Personal assistants, 1\n- Embeddings \u0026 rerankers, 1\n- Product analytics \u0026 experimentation, 1\n- Workflow automation, 1\n- Web search APIs, 1\n- Spend management \u0026 procurement, 1\n- Local AI, 1\n\n## Founders they backed\n\n- [Aaron Katz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aaron-katz/), ClickHouse\n- [Alexey Milovidov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alexey-milovidov/), ClickHouse\n- [Yury Izrailevsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yury-izrailevsky/), ClickHouse\n- [Matan Grinberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matan-grinberg/), Factory\n- [Eno Reyes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eno-reyes/), Factory\n- [Arvind Jain](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arvind-jain/), Glean Technologies, Inc.\n- [T.R. Vishwanath](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/t-r-vishwanath/), Glean Technologies, Inc.\n- [Tony Gentilcore](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tony-gentilcore/), Glean Technologies, Inc.\n- [Sam Altman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sam-altman/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI\n- [Elon Musk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/elon-musk/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI\n- [Greg Brockman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/greg-brockman/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI\n- [Ilya Sutskever](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ilya-sutskever/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI\n- [John Schulman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-schulman/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI\n- [Wojciech Zaremba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/wojciech-zaremba/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI\n- [Trevor Blackwell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/trevor-blackwell/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI\n- [Vicki Cheung](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/vicki-cheung/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI\n- [Andrej Karpathy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andrej-karpathy/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI\n- [Durk Kingma](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/durk-kingma/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI\n- [Pamela Vagata](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pamela-vagata/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI\n- [Graham McNicoll](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/graham-mcnicoll/), GrowthBook, Inc.\n- [Jeremy Dorn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeremy-dorn/), GrowthBook, Inc.\n- [Binny Gill](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/binny-gill/), Kognitos, Inc.\n- [Parag Agrawal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/parag-agrawal/), Parallel Web Systems\n- [Sigil Wen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sigil-wen/), Conway Research (maker of Underdog), Conway Research\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which AI tools has Khosla Ventures invested in?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### How are Khosla Ventures's companies graded?\n\nOn 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).\n\nInvestors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source. 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