Industrial Decarbonization

Khosla Ventures

Check: No Jessy-specific check size is disclosed by Khosla Ventures. Publicly observed work spans an $11 million Spiritus seed financing led by Khosla and Pascal's $8 million seed round, but round size is not the same as the firm's check. Third-party claims of a $100,000–$5 million range were excluded as unverified.

Jessy looks for climate technologies grounded in hard science and non-obvious mechanisms that can make a meaningful dent in greenhouse-gas emissions. Her career shows a materials-to-systems lens: understand the physical mechanism, identify the governing cost and performance variables, build around available supply chains, and prove a path from laboratory result to commercially relevant hardware. Spiritus reflects this in lower-energy, lower-cost direct air capture; Pascal in solid refrigerants operating below 10 bar with off-the-shelf components. She is comfortable with capital-intensive physical products when a technical discontinuity creates a credible route to scale and economics.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No personal check range is published. Khosla finances early technical experiments through its Seed Fund and larger early-to-late opportunities through its Main Fund; historical firm commentary described many seed investments around $1M–$2M. These figures are not Rajesh's personal authority.

Rajesh backs bold founders reinventing how the world powers, builds, and heals itself. His two decades in corporate venture, startups, and network systems inform an industrial-scale lens across renewables, decarbonization, advanced manufacturing, critical minerals, compute infrastructure, and the convergence of those fields with AI. The core question is whether a technical advance can survive scale-up and reshape the economics of a foundational system.