• Partner, Managing Director, and CTO of Khosla Ventures since 2012
• Co-Founded MetaMind — AI company acquired by Salesforce, became the foundation of Salesforce Einstein AI platform
• Lead Engineer on Stanford's "Stanley" — the autonomous vehicle that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge (now in the Smithsonian Museum); Stanley was foundational to Google's self-driving car efforts
• PhD in Mechanics and Computation from Stanford University
• BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University
• Former CTO and Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures — led technical diligence for infrastructure IT and sustainability practices for six years
• Serves as Khosla Ventures' internal CTO — helps founding teams think through architecture and simulation frameworks
• Board member at Waabi and ThoughtSpot

• AI and machine learning infrastructure
• Robotics and autonomous systems
• Developer tools and enterprise software
• Space technology
• SMB software
• Deep technical companies requiring rigorous engineering
• Very early-stage ("science project" stage) through Series B

GitLab (code collaboration platform — IPO), Berkshire Grey (AI-powered robotics — IPO), Rocket Lab (space launch — IPO), Hermeus (hypersonic aircraft), Waabi (autonomous trucking — $750M Series C/D), ThoughtSpot (AI-powered analytics), MetaMind/Salesforce Einstein (co-founded), Theorem (AI code verification — $6M seed, Jan 2026), and Formulary (AI fund management — $4.6M seed, Jan 2026).

• Exceptional fit for deep technical AI infrastructure — Sven is one of the most technically credentialed investors in venture capital (Stanford PhD, DARPA Grand Challenge winner, MetaMind/Salesforce Einstein co-founder)
• As Khosla's CTO, he personally helps portfolio companies with architecture decisions — invaluable for an AI infrastructure company
• Khosla Seed Fund explicitly invests in "science project" and "crazy idea" stage companies — they embrace high-risk, high-conviction technical bets
• Can be sole seed investor — no need to assemble a syndicate
• GitLab investment proves deep pattern recognition for developer infrastructure that scales
• MetaMind co-founding shows he has been building in AI since before the current wave — not a tourist
• $1M–$2M seed checks with ability to follow on significantly as the company grows
• Khosla brand on the cap table is a strong signal to follow-on investors
• NOTE: Khosla is highly selective and thesis-driven. The pitch needs to articulate a bold technical vision, not just incremental improvement