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Khosla Ventures portfolio AI companies

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    OpenAI· San Francisco, California, United States

    OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership.At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

    • Series unknown
    • 10.7k employees
    • Founded 2015
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    Guardant Health· Palo Alto, California, United States

    Guardant Health is a leading precision medicine company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, we're transforming patient care by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant® tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer.Important Note for Job Applicants:Guardant Health is aware of recruiting scams where unauthorized individuals use the company's name in fraudulent emails, job postings, and social media messages. Please note that Guardant Health will never ask for money or credit card information during the job application process, nor does the company communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or personal email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail.

    • Post-IPO debt
    • 4.8k employees
    • Founded 2012
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    Amyris· Emeryville, California, United States

    Amyris is a vertically integrated biomanufacturing company that creates specialty molecules for a range of industries, including flavors and fragrances, advanced materials, beauty and personal care, food, and more. Using advanced fermentation technology, Amyris customizes, creates, and manufactures ingredients that enhance lives, protect ecosystems, and take products to the next level of performance.Amyris was founded in 2003 with a bold humanitarian vision to transform access to a lifesaving antimalarial compound using biotechnology. Now, with over two decades of proven commercial success, our proprietary platform is redefining the precision, consistency, and sustainability that is possible with renewable biological chemistry.

    • Grant
    • 997 employees
    • Founded 2003
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    Physical Intelligence

    Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.

    • Series B
    • 349 employees
    • Founded 2024
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    Ultima Genomics· Fremont, California, United States

    Ultima Genomics is unleashing the power of genomics at scale. Our mission is to continuously drive the scale of genomic information to enable unprecedented advances in biology and improvements in human health. With humanity on the cusp of a biological revolution, there is a virtually endless need for more genomic information to address biology’s complexity and dynamic change—and a further need to challenge conventional next-generation sequencing technologies. Ultima’s revolutionary new sequencing architecture drives down the costs of sequencing to help overcome the tradeoffs that scientists and clinicians are forced to make between the breadth, depth, and frequency with which they use genomic information. The new sequencing architecture was designed to scale far beyond conventional sequencing technologies, lower the cost of genomic information and catalyze the next phase of genomics in the 21st century.

    • Series unknown
    • 308 employees
    • Founded 2016

Khosla Ventures’s AI portfolio

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