Samir is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, where his interests lie in health, sustainability, food, and advanced technology. He led the firm’s investments in multiple companies that have had successful exits via IPOs or acquisitions including Vicarious Surgical, View, Guardant Health, Granular, SLD, NanoH2O, Nutanix, Oscar, Quantumscape, Iora Health and Raxium (Google). In addition, he has led investments in Impossible Foods, Mojo Vision, Primer, OpenStore, Connie Health, Statespace, Varda Space Industries, Rightway Health, Mirvie and Ultima Genomics, among others.
Highlights from an hour-long conversation with Samir Kaul, founding partner and managing director of Khosla Ventures.
For me, there are four pillars to supporting a venture, regardless of its vertical. The degree to which Khosla delves into each of these four areas is determined by the size of the check.