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Jai Sajnani

Partner at Khosla Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Jai Sajnani is a Partner at Khosla Ventures in San Francisco, with a background in mechanical engineering and expertise in venture capital. He has held significant roles at Flight Deck Capital and New Enterprise Associates, and serves as a Board Observer for various companies in the tech and biotech sectors. His career highlights include being a Partner at Khosla Ventures, a prestigious venture capital firm, and having experience in investing and advising numerous tech startups as a Board Observer for companies like Narmi and NGINX, Inc.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

Khosla Ventures provides venture assistance to entrepreneurs in AI, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, health and frontier technologies.

Raised $1,500,000.00 from Raj Sareen.

  • Partner

    2021 - 2024

    Hybrid TMT Fund - Equity L/S and Private Growth

Flight Deck Capital is a TMT fund that invests globally in disruptive public and private companies.

  • Principal

    2017 - 2021

    New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm that invests in technology companies at all stages in the US and abroad. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions, including names like CloudFlare, Elastic, MongoDB, Mulesoft, Jet.com, Groupon, Tableau, Salesforce, and Workday. My board roles included Narmi, Divvy (Acq. by Bill.com), Transfix, Coursera, Wheelhouse, Drop, and Zero Financial. I also worked closely with many other portfolio companies including Databricks, Plaid, Opendoor, Robinhood, GoodLeap, Automation Anywhere, NGINX (Acq. by F5), Heap Analytics, MemSQL, Sentons, and AppSheet. https://www.nea.com

New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in technology and healthcare startups.

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2021

    Narmi makes financial institutions digital. Through Narmi’s mobile banking, online banking, digital account opening and banking APIs, our customers create a more diverse and engaging financial ecosystem. Today, Narmi’s platform powers financial institutions with billions of dollars of assets and helps move millions of dollars between financial institutions on a daily basis. Led Narmi's Series A while at NEA www.narmi.com

Narmi is a provider of mobile, online, and digital account banking to regional and community financial institutions.

Raised $55,520,000.00 from Contour Venture Partners, Greycroft, Picus Capital and New Enterprise Associates.

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2021

    Divvy is a platform to manage payments and subscriptions, build budgets, and eliminate expense reports. By integrating real-time tracking for every transaction, Divvy provides organizations with instant insight and control into their spend. With Divvy, you can make informed cash flow decisions, curb losses before they happen, and never have to save a receipt again. Get a demo at www.getdivvy.com/ Led Divvy's Series C while at NEA. Divvy was acquired by Bill.com for $2.5B in 2021.

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2021

    Transfix is the leading online freight marketplace connecting shippers to a national network of reliable carriers. Every year, 65 billion empty miles are driven by trucks in the U.S. and companies are spending excess time, resources and money arranging for the transportation of their goods. Transfix is on a path to solve these problems by dynamically matching shipments from Fortune 500 companies with available trucks. By partnering with both sides of the marketplace, Transfix is able to lower the cost and increase the reliability for every shipment. www.transfix.io

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2021

    Wheelhouse builds software (dynamic pricing, market intel & comp sets) to power short term rentals. www.usewheelhouse.com

Wheelhouse helps you manage your short term rentals as professionally and efficiently as major hotels.

Raised $19,620,000.00 from Fifth Wall, Alpana Ventures, Certares, PAR Capital Management, Tishman Speyer, Highgate Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, RXR Digital Ventures, 01 Advisors and SignalFire.

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2021

    Drop is an intelligent mobile rewards platform that surfaces personalized offers to over 3 million members, based on their demographics and purchase data. Drop members can link any debit or credit card when signing up to start earning points from some of their favorite brands, which include Starbucks, Uber, Apple, and Amazon. Try it out at www.joindrop.com

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2021

    MindTickle powers the world's most customer-centric organizations with the capabilities proven to grow revenue and maximize brand value. Their next generation sales readiness platform helps fast growing companies prepare their sales and customer success teams in an effective and scalable way. www.mindtickle.com

MindTickle is a software company that offers sales readiness and enablement tools for businesses.

Raised $281,300,000.00 from Qualcomm Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, NewView Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund.

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2019

    NGINX, now a part of F5, is the heart of the modern web — helping some of the world’s most innovative companies deliver their sites and applications with performance, reliability, security, and scale. Companies around the world rely on NGINX to ensure a seamless web and mobile user experience through advanced load balancing, content caching, media streaming, application monitoring, and more. www.nginx.com

NGINX offers advanced internet infrastructure software to help companies deliver faster, more compelling digital experiences.

Raised $84,000,000.00 from Sand Hill Angels, Headline, Mason Ng, New Enterprise Associates and Goldman Sachs.

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