Vinod Khosla

Founder, Khosla Ventures

$13.22B

$253.3M (2%)

as of 09/03/26

About Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla is ranked at No. 1 on the 2026 Midas List, his 19th appearance.

Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

Khosla Ventures invests in experimental technologies such as biomedicine, robotics, and was the first venture firm to invest in OpenAI, valued at $852 billion as of March 2026, after closing a record-breaking $122 billion funding round.

The firm scored exits in 2020 and 2021 with IPOs of Affirm and DoorDash and SPAC listings of QuantumScape and Opendoor; Stripe, another notable deal, was valued at $159 billion in 2026.

Khosla cofounded computer hardware firm Sun Microsystems in 1982 with Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy and Scott McNealy.

He spent 18 years at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins before launching his own fund.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Sun Microsystems, venture capital

Residence

Portola Valley, California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

01/28/55 (age 71)

Number of children

Education

Master of Science, Carnegie Mellon University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Indian Institute of Technology; Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Self-made

self-made

Vinod Khosla’s fortune is worth

220K

troy ounces of gold

203K

median U.S. household

132K

median U.S. income

0.264%

U.S. credit card volume

0.053%

GDP of the United States

0.039%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Khosla attempted to found a soymilk company in India before immigrating to the United States in the 1970s.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NASDAQ | AFRM-US

Affirm Holdings

NASDAQ | GOOGL-US

Alphabet

NASDAQ | BGRY-US

Berkshire Grey

NYSE | XYZ-US

Block Inc Class A

NASDAQ | DASH-US

DoorDash, Inc

NASDAQ | GTLB-US

GitLab, Inc

NASDAQ | GOOG-US

Google Inc. (Cl C)

NASDAQ | GH-US

Guardant Health

NASDAQ | CART-US

Instacart

NYSE | JNPR-US

Juniper Networks Inc.

NASDAQ | LNZA-US

Lanzatech

NYSE | NXDR-US

NextDoor

NASDAQ | OKTA-US

Okta, Inc

NASDAQ | OPEN-US

Opendoor Technologies

NASDAQ | QS-US

QuantumScape

NYSE | RNG-US

RingCentral

NASDAQ | RKLB-US

Rocket Lab USA

NASDAQ | VELO-US

Velo3D