Vinod Khosla is Founder of Khosla Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on impactful technology investments in AI, climate, healthcare, and frontier technologies. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982, pioneering open systems and commercial RISC processors.

Vinod earned a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, and an MBA from Stanford in 1980. He co-founded Daisy Systems, a computer-aided design company, before starting Sun Microsystems.

Vinod joined Kleiner Perkins in 1986 as a general partner, where he made influential investments in companies like Excite, Juniper Networks, and Cerent Corporation. He is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and advocates for technology-driven societal transformation.

Khosla Ventures was founded in 2004 with family funds and now manages approximately $15 billion in assets under management. The firm has invested in over 700 companies including OpenAI, DoorDash, Instacart, Square, Stripe, and Affirm, with 50 unicorns in its portfolio.

Khosla Ventures ranked first in the Founder's Choice VC list in 2023 and raised $3.1 billion across three funds in November 2023, the largest fundraiser by a venture capital firm that year. The firm was the first VC to invest in OpenAI in 2018 and has driven major exits including DoorDash's $72 billion IPO and Affirm's $24 billion IPO.