Sven Strohband
Sven Strohband is an engineer, entrepreneur and venture investor, and a partner and managing director at Khosla VenturesKhosla VenturesKhosla Ventures (KV) is an American venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It made heavy early bets on clean technology, became OpenAI’s first venture capital investor in 2019, and its portfolio also includes companies such as DoorDash, Block (formerly Square), Impossible Foods, and Rocket Lab.Open the full entry. He helped lead the Stanley autonomous-car project and co-founded MetaMindMetaMindMetaMind was a deep learning company co-founded by Richard Socher and Sven Strohband. It offered text and image analysis and was acquired by Salesforce in 2016.Open the full entry with Richard SocherRichard SocherRichard Socher is an AI researcher, entrepreneur and investor. He is co-founder and CEO of Recursive, founder and CEO of You.com, and co-founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures. A Stanford computer science PhD, he contributed to the Stanford Sentiment Treebank and GloVe, founded MetaMind, and served as chief scientist at Salesforce.Open the full entry.
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Education: Mechanical engineering and computation
Strohband earned a mechanical-engineering bachelor’s degree at Purdue University and a PhD in mechanics and computation at StanfordStanford UniversityStanford University is a research university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1885 and opened in 1891.Open the full entry.[1]
2003–2006Automotive research and Stanley
2006–2012Mohr Davidow Ventures
At Mohr Davidow Ventures, he led technical diligence in infrastructure technology and sustainability and supported recruiting, product validation and fundraising planning.[2]
From 2012: Khosla Ventures
He joined Khosla Ventures’ partnership and technical leadership in 2012 and became a managing director in 2018.[2]
2014–2016MetaMind
When MetaMind launched in December 2014, Strohband was co-founder and CEO and Richard Socher was CTO. SalesforceSalesforceSalesforce is a U.S. enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, providing cloud applications, data platforms and AI agent tools centered on customer relationship management (CRM).Open the full entry acquired it in 2016.[3][4]
Investing: Engineering and company governance
His investments include Rocket Lab, GitLab, Hermeus and Berkshire Grey, and he has served on boards including Waabi and ThoughtSpot.[5]
Public accounts: X and LinkedIn
His Khosla Ventures profile links to X at https://x.com/sstrohband (opens in a new window) and LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sven-strohband-348b841/ (opens in a new window).[1]
Sources
- Sven Strohband – Khosla Ventures (opens in a new window)
- Form S-4: JAWS Spitfire Acquisition Corporation (opens in a new window)
- MetaMind Launches State-of-the-Art AI Platform, Bringing Automated Predictions and Smarter Decision-Making to Businesses (opens in a new window)
- Salesforce buys AI specialist MetaMind to avoid being ‘flanked’ (opens in a new window)
- Sven Strohband (opens in a new window)