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Indian Institute of Technology, B.Tech
Electrical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, M.A.
Biomedical Engineering
Stanford University, MBA

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Khosla Ventures

Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. Sun was funded by longtime friend and board member John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

In 1986 Vinod joined Kleiner Perkins, where he was and continues to be a general partner of KPCB funds through KP X. Through the years there, with other partners, he took on Intel’s monopoly with Nexgen/AMD (the only microprocessor to have significant success against Intel, sold to AMD for 28 percent of AMD), incubated the idea and business plan for Juniper to take on Cisco’s dominance of the router market, formulated the very early advertising-based search strategy for Excite, and transformed the moribund telecommunications business and its archaic SONET implementations with Cerent (sold to Cisco for $7.4B).

In 2004, Vinod ventured out to create his own venture firm, Khosla Ventures, which invests in a broad portfolio of cleantech, healthtech and infotech startups.

Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master’s in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Company Date Round Size Participants
Ausra 9/07Series A$43.3M4
Brenco 3/07Venture Round$200M3
iLike 1/06Series A$2.5M2
eASIC 10/05Venture Round$17M4
eASIC 4/05Series C$7.5M2
Rearden Commerce 1/04Venture Round$42M7

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  1. ausra.com [edit]
  2. Brenco, sugar ethanol company, raises $200M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  3. techcrunch.com [edit]
  4. eASIC (easic.com) [edit]
  5. eASIC (easic.com) [edit]
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