Partner at Khosla Ventures
Check size: No current personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund backs experiments and may invest alone or with angels/smaller funds; Samir Kaul described historical seed investments as roughly $1M–$2M in 2020. The Main Fund covers early through later-stage financings, including total rounds above $10M. These are firm-level guideposts, not Adina's personal authority.
Adina backs exceptional founders before market consensus and works with them from product-market fit through breakout growth. Her stated focus is early-stage software, AI, and fintech, with disclosed investments spanning home-equity credit, AI-native accounting and legal/software creation, stablecoin payments, receivables automation, AI security, and mental-health AI. Her operating lens begins with the customer and connects product strategy to go-to-market execution.
Start with the customer's painful workflow and the non-consensus insight that makes your product possible now. Show the unfair advantage, the key technical or market risk, the cheapest milestone that removes it, and early evidence of product pull. Explain the path from PMF to breakout distribution, including who buys, why they switch, and how go-to-market compounds. Be explicit about the help you want beyond money.
Exceptional founders acting before consensus, a large category-defining opportunity, an unfair technical or business-model advantage, direct customer insight, and teams that can move from early product-market fit to disciplined breakout growth. Her history suggests she values founders who combine product ambition with practical go-to-market learning.
Khosla's published criteria imply weak fit for consensus-bound or me-too software, small markets, founders who only want capital, unexamined technical or market risk, incomplete thinking about customer acquisition, and plans that substitute five-year forecasts for low-cost risk-removal milestones.
Begin with a specific customer and urgent workflow, then work backward to the minimum product, distribution motion, and technical advantage required to deliver a step-function improvement.
Separate a genuinely non-obvious founder insight from a fashionable theme by testing why informed incumbents disagree, what evidence the founder has, and which near-term milestone can falsify the thesis.
After early product pull, identify the repeatable acquisition channel, onboarding constraint, organizational bottleneck, and product expansion that can turn initial fit into category-scale growth.
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