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Sven Strohband
Managing Director at Khosla Ventures
Mountain View, California
Overview
Sven Strohband is the Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, with a strong background in start-ups, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. He has successfully invested in companies like WindBorne Systems and Hermeus, demonstrating expertise in sectors such as robotics, AI, and space technology.
Work Experience
Managing Director
2018 - Current
Early investor in technically interesting companies. Robotics: Berkshire Grey, Giant.ai, Vicarious, OpenTrons Software: GitLab, AttackIQ, NetSpring, Bubbles, Fireflies.ai, ThoughtSpot Space: RocketLab, Akash Systems, Hermeus
Partner, CTO
2012 - 2018
Khosla Ventures provides venture assistance to entrepreneurs in AI, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, health and frontier technologies.
Raised $1,500,000.00 from Raj Sareen.
CEO
2014 - 2015
Partner, CTO
2010 - 2012
Partner
2006 - 2010
Mohr Davidow invested in early-stage technology-based startups to create large new markets.
Lead Engineer Stanford Racing Team
2005 - 2006
Vehicle "Stanley" was our entry into the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. https://cs.stanford.edu/group/roadrunner/old/index.html
Senior Engineer
2003 - 2006