Khosla Ventures
Coverage of Khosla Ventures in the Nexus archive.
- Read the pitch deck these Stanford grads used to raise $11.6 million for a wearable device to track women's hormones
Clair Health, founded by Stanford graduates Jenny Duan and Abhinav Agarwal, raised $11.6 million to develop a wearable device tracking women's hormones. The startup aims to address a gap in the wearables market by focusing on hormone monitoring for fertility, menopause, and overall health.
- Cognition's CEO says token spend leaderboards are 'directionally correct' — but some people get carried away
Cognition CEO Scott Wu criticized token spend leaderboards, arguing employees should be evaluated based on output rather than AI token usage. He highlighted Cognition's $26B valuation and its AI coding tool Devin, while other tech leaders like Legora's Jacob Lauritzen and Cerebras Systems' Andrew Feldman also decried tokenmaxxing as wasteful.
- Robotics startup FieldAI has hit a $100 million milestone
Robotics startup FieldAI has surpassed $100 million in revenue and customer contracts, with software enabling robots to operate in mines, construction sites, and factories. Backed by investors like Bezos Expeditions, Nvidia, and Khosla Ventures, the company raised $405 million in a $2 billion valuation round and employs AI-driven navigation solutions for diverse robotic platforms.
- Meet your new AI coworkers: Convey raises $38 million led by a16z to take repetitive work off employees' plates.
Convey, a startup building AI 'teammates' to automate repetitive work, raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company aims to shift focus from 'AI agents' to collaborative tools, with customers including NBCUniversal, Samsara, and TelevisaUnivision.
- Factory CEO says he bought each of his 30 employees a $3,000 cooling mattress cover so 'they'll be sharper' at work
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg purchased $3,000 Eight Sleep cooling mattress covers for 30 employees to enhance productivity and focus. The startup, which has grown to 120 employees and raised $150 million, uses the tech to optimize sleep quality, comparing employees to athletes needing rest for peak performance.
- Sam Altman's eye-scanning startup is laying off employees
Tools for Humanity, a startup co-founded by Sam Altman, is laying off employees amid struggles to generate revenue with its iris-scanning 'Orb' device. Despite a $2.5 billion valuation and backing from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, the company faces challenges in proving its technology's viability and regulatory acceptance.
- Silicon Valley founders are publicly roasting VCs online. Here are their wildest stories.
Silicon Valley founders are sharing negative experiences with venture capitalists on social media, including stories of investors falling asleep during meetings and making sexist remarks. Examples include Greg Isenberg describing a general partner sleeping through a pitch and Matthew Prince recounting a Sequoia partner dismissing Cloudflare's co-founders.
- Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose last startup, Bench, imploded
Khosla Ventures has invested $10M in Ian Crosby's new startup Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service. Ian Crosby's previous startup, Bench, imploded. Synthetic aims to provide automated bookkeeping services to other startups.
- Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises
A three-year-old startup named Factory reached a $1.5B valuation and raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures to develop AI-powered coding solutions for enterprises.