Samir Kaul

General Partner at Khosla Ventures

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 28 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Member
Apr 2024
One unified platform for your entire GTM team, from first touch to closed won. Finally, everything just works together.
Board Member
Jul 2023
Headspace is your lifelong guide to better mental health. We make mental health support accessible to everyone, no matter their background or experience. Through our flagship Headspace app, we provide mental health coaching in addition to mindfulness and mental health tools for everyday life, like guided meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement, and focus exercises. Our enterprise offerings combine this experience with EAP and work-life services, as well as therapy and psychiatry services – all in a single destination. Our team of experts ranges from mental health clinicians to Emmy award-winning producers and data scientists, working together as one to help millions of people around the world be healthier and more productive. To learn more, please visit headspace.com.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Traba is building a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency. We connect industrial businesses with reliable workers to fill open shifts and empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. Backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.
Investor
Oct 2021
Primer is a growing network of K–8 schools restoring the timeless foundations of American education. Inspired by the original teaching primers that shaped a nation of readers, thinkers, and builders, our schools begin with what has always worked, and build for what lies ahead. Close-knit learning environments. Skilled educators. A culture that takes kids seriously as learners and leaders. Primers shaped the first 200 years of American children. Primer will ready them for the next.
Board Member
Sep 2021
Varda is building the infrastructure for a thriving orbital economy, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules. From new, life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optic cables, there is a world of products used to benefit life on Earth that can only be manufactured in space. Our mission is to expand the economic bounds of humankind.
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Jul 2021
OpenStore is on a mission to inspire entrepreneurs and shoppers to find something new. We give entrepreneurs the simplest way to sell their e-commerce businesses and receive liquidity. We’ve paid millions of dollars to entrepreneurs all over the country, freeing them up to start new companies, spend time with family, or take a well-deserved break. We manage the largest number of Shopify brands with over 100,000 products across apparel, beauty, home goods, and electronics. Our team of e-commerce experts and engineers uses our proprietary technology and tooling, and advantages from our size, to grow our brands and reach more customers. Two million people have purchased OpenStore products, and soon, we’ll launch a consumer shopping app, helping people discover products in an all-new way.
Board Member
Mar 2021
Were a technology and services company radically simplifying the healthcare experience for clients and members.
Board Member
Oct 2020
Fulfil has reimagined and reinvented online grocery automation with a completely unique, fully automated fulfillment system that enables customer-centric, sustainable and profitable online grocery at scale. Unlike legacy automation technology being tested for grocery fulfillment, Fulfil’s robots do all the picking and packing across all product categories and temperature zones, unlocking extreme speed, throughput, accuracy, and inventory control with minimal labor in a small footprint.
Board Member
Feb 2020
Were using cognitive science and artificial intelligence to revolutionize the way humans improve. Leveraging our expertise as neuroscientists, data scientists, video game developers, and computer visionaries, our products bring much needed standardized performance analytics to training.
Investor
Dec 2019
At Level, we believe using your benefits should be as easy as buying a cup of coffee. We’re unlocking the full value of compensation by rebuilding benefits as a simple payments experience — fast, flexible, and transparent. Our mission is to empower people to build better financial futures, and we’re accomplishing that by transforming the status quo of benefits. Level is a B2B2C fintech company comprised of a diverse team from industry-leading companies like Square, Oscar, Google, Uber, and Airbnb. Together, we’re creating a new payments tech stack to help employers offer more accessible and personalized benefits for their teams — and this is just the beginning. Collaboration is our superpower here at Level. By leveraging each other’s strengths and curiosity, we’ve been able to build a best-in-class product, culture, and business. Plus, our employee benefits are so awesome that we let our customers buy them too.
early stageInsurance
Board Member
Sep 2019
IgGenix is a clinical-stage, venture backed biotechnology company founded on breakthrough advances in Steve Quake’s laboratory at Stanford in collaboration with allergy clinician and researcher Kari Nadeau. We have exciting opportunities for enthusiastic, self-motivated, and highly organized individuals to join the growing team at IgGenix in South San Francisco, CA.
Board Member
Jun 2019
Fortera is a pioneering green cement manufacturer with production in Redding, California. Fortera’s groundbreaking ReCarb® technology transforms industrial CO2 into ready-to-use low-carbon cement. ReCarb® seamlessly integrates with current cement facilities, leveraging the entire production framework, from machinery to feedstocks, to ensure a globally scalable solution for sustainable cement manufacturing. The resulting product, Forteras ReAct™ green cement, is market-ready, meets regulatory standards, and can be blended with or used as a substitute for ordinary cement. For more information on how Fortera is paving the way to zero-CO2 cement, visit forteraglobal.com.
early stageManufacturing
Board Member
Dec 2018
We believe clinical research can be built to improve health equity globally. Learning if treatments are safe and effective for the people who need them requires us to offer studies that are more accessible and offer choice. We founded Lightship in 2018 with the inspiration to keep people at the heart of our work and use the latest innovations in digital health, technology, and remote care melded with high quality clinical research to transform clinical trials. Our approach offers clinical trials that are designed from the beginning to make it easier for patients and caregivers to take part. By using inclusive technology, flexible visit types, an amazing experience, and commitment to quality, we can develop programs to better bring new potentially life-saving therapies into the world, together.
Board Member
Jul 2018
Scipher Medicine is building the future of patient treatment. Most patients who are prescribed blockbuster therapies today don’t respond to the treatment, costing the health care industry billions in wasted drugs while patients continue to suffer. Sciphers platform identifies which drug will work based on the patients fundamental disease biology, and not based on symptoms, disease classification, or medical bias. A simple test predicts which drug he/she will respond to, ensuring that most optimal treatment is prescribed from day one. The molecular data generated by our tests is then used to fuel novel target discovery to address a clear unmet medical need in patients who do not respond to any existing therapy.
Board Member
Jul 2018
Mirvie is the 1st to predict pregnancy complications before they happen by using RNA messages to reveal underlying biology of pregnancy health. Using a simple blood test, the platform reveals vital information about a pregnancy’s unique biology that drives changes throughout pregnancy. The result? The power to transform how we predict, prevent and treat unexpected complications.
early stageBiotechnology
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2024
Board Member
Apr 2024
One unified platform for your entire GTM team, from first touch to closed won. Finally, everything just works together.
2023
Board Member
Jul 2023
Headspace is your lifelong guide to better mental health. We make mental health support accessible to everyone, no matter their background or experience. Through our flagship Headspace app, we provide mental health coaching in addition to mindfulness and mental health tools for everyday life, like guided meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement, and focus exercises. Our enterprise offerings combine this experience with EAP and work-life services, as well as therapy and psychiatry services – all in a single destination. Our team of experts ranges from mental health clinicians to Emmy award-winning producers and data scientists, working together as one to help millions of people around the world be healthier and more productive. To learn more, please visit headspace.com.
2022
Board Member
Jun 2022
Traba is building a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency. We connect industrial businesses with reliable workers to fill open shifts and empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. Backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.
2021
Investor
Oct 2021
Primer is a growing network of K–8 schools restoring the timeless foundations of American education. Inspired by the original teaching primers that shaped a nation of readers, thinkers, and builders, our schools begin with what has always worked, and build for what lies ahead. Close-knit learning environments. Skilled educators. A culture that takes kids seriously as learners and leaders. Primers shaped the first 200 years of American children. Primer will ready them for the next.
Board Member
Sep 2021
Varda is building the infrastructure for a thriving orbital economy, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules. From new, life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optic cables, there is a world of products used to benefit life on Earth that can only be manufactured in space. Our mission is to expand the economic bounds of humankind.
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