Biggest launches
| Company | Views | Followers when posted | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 139M | 5,492,151 | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Sakana AI | 26.5M | 141,099 | 22 Jun 2026 |
| Stitch by Google | 18.8M | 161,793 | 18 Mar 2026 |
| Replit | 8.6M | 240,087 | 19 Feb 2026 |
| NewLimit | 2.1M | 43,012 | 2 Jun 2026 |
| Ollie AI | 2.1M | 5,536 | 2 Jun 2026 |
| Stripe | 1.5M | 295,708 | 29 Apr 2026 |
| hook | 1.4M | 473 | 3 Sep 2026 |
| With Coverage | 1.4M | 42,791 | 12 Aug 2026 |
| GitLab | 1.2M | 173,703 | 6 Oct 2026 |
| Vercel Developers | 967K | 48,806 | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Vercel | 928K | 468,881 | 27 Aug 2026 |
Breakouts from small accounts
Launches from accounts under 10,000 followers that passed 250K views, one per company.
| Company | Views | Followers when posted | Against following |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ollie AI | 2.1M | 5,536 | 372x |
| hook | 1.4M | 473 | 2,944x |
| Tolan | 590K | 6,449 | 91x |
| Scaled Cognition | 422K | 320 | 1,319x |
| Pramaana Labs | 348K | 2,071 | 168x |
Launch, then a raise
Launches followed by a funding round within 90 days.
Who Khosla Ventures invests alongside
The firms most often on the same cap tables, by number of shared portfolio companies in the directory.
| Firm | Shared companies |
|---|---|
| Sequoia | 9 of 32 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 8 of 32 |
| SV Angel | 8 of 32 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 7 of 32 |
| Tiger Global | 7 of 32 |
| Y Combinator | 7 of 32 |
| Lightspeed | 6 of 32 |
| a16z | 6 of 32 |
| General Catalyst | 6 of 32 |
| NVIDIA | 5 of 32 |
By category
| Category | Launches | Median views |
|---|---|---|
| Frontier labs | 57 | 2.5M |
| Developer tools | 38 | 1.2M |
| Consumer and creative AI | 13 | 2.1M |
| Healthtech and regulated AI | 4 | 1.5M |
| Creative AI | 4 | 8.4M |
Khosla Ventures portfolio companies on X
| Company | Launches | Total views | Biggest launch |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 68 | 437.1M | 139M3 Sep 2026 |
| Sakana AI | 1 | 26.5M | 26.5M22 Jun 2026 |
| Stitch by Google | 1 | 18.8M | 18.8M18 Mar 2026 |
| Replit | 8 | 17.9M | 8.6M19 Feb 2026 |
| Vercel | 4 | 2.2M | 928K27 Aug 2026 |
| NewLimit | 1 | 2.1M | 2.1M2 Jun 2026 |
| Ollie AI | 1 | 2.1M | 2.1M2 Jun 2026 |
| Stripe | 1 | 1.5M | 1.5M29 Apr 2026 |
| hook | 1 | 1.4M | 1.4M3 Sep 2026 |
| With Coverage | 1 | 1.4M | 1.4M12 Aug 2026 |
| GitLab | 1 | 1.2M | 1.2M6 Oct 2026 |
| Arena.ai | 4 | 1.2M | 552K4 Jun 2026 |
| Vercel Developers | 2 | 1M | 967K18 Aug 2026 |
| General Intuition | 2 | 940K | 534K25 Jun 2026 |
| Abacus AI | 1 | 709K | 709K29 Apr 2026 |
| Tolan | 2 | 627K | 590K19 Oct 2026 |
| Block | 1 | 625K | 625K23 Oct 2026 |
| Glean | 1 | 536K | 536K26 Aug 2026 |
| Eight Sleep | 1 | 496K | 496K23 Sep 2026 |
| Scaled Cognition | 1 | 422K | 422K25 Jun 2026 |
| Physical Intelligence | 1 | 417K | 417K13 Oct 2026 |
| Parallel | 1 | 403K | 403K13 Jul 2026 |
| Pramaana Labs | 1 | 348K | 348K17 Jun 2026 |
| Profound | 2 | 225K | 223K15 Sep 2026 |
| rabbit inc. | 1 | 207K | 207K22 Sep 2026 |
| Convey | 1 | 181K | 181K17 Jun 2026 |
| Sarvam | 2 | 179K | 161K13 Oct 2026 |
| Rocket Lab | 1 | 170K | 170K23 Sep 2026 |
| Bunkerhill Health | 1 | 87K | 87K16 Jul 2026 |
| Automat AI | 1 | 53K | 53K30 Sep 2026 |
| Fastino Labs | 1 | 39K | 39K1 Oct 2026 |
Questions
Which Khosla Ventures portfolio companies launch on X?
31 Khosla Ventures-backed companies have 116 launches in the Doomers launch directory. The biggest by total views are OpenAI, Sakana AI, Stitch by Google.
What was the biggest launch from a Khosla Ventures-backed company?
OpenAI, with 139M views on 3 Sep 2026.
How do Khosla Ventures-backed launches compare with other launches on X?
The median Khosla Ventures-backed launch did 1.4M views, against 602K across every launch we track. 57% passed a million views. By median views the portfolio ranks 8 of the 20 firms we report on.
Where does this data come from?
Views, followers and dates are read from X. A company counts as backed when the firm invested in any round on record, matched to investment records by the company's website, plus companies whose own posts name the firm.
A known gap: about four in ten companies have no investment record yet, mostly the newest, so very young portfolio companies are under-counted.