Where Does Vinod Khosla’s Money Go?
Vinod Khosla has been actively investing since he floated Khosla Ventures. (It helps that the fund is made up of his own money). VC Ratings has a list of investments in cleantech. And we add a few Web 2.0 investments he has made recently.
Cleantech
1) Cellulosic - Mascoma, Celunol, Range Fuels, 1 stealth startup
2) Future Fuels - LS9, Gevo, Amyris Biotechnologies, Coskata Energy
3) Efficiency - Transonic Combustion, GroupIV Semiconductor, 1 stealth startup
4) Homes - Living Homes, Global Homes
5) Natural Gas - Great Point Energy
6) Solar - Stion, Ausra
7) Tools - Nanostellar, Codon Devices, Praj Industries
Water - 2 stealth startups
9) Plastic - Segetis, 1 stealth startups
10) Corn/Sugar Fuels - Altra, Cilion, Hawaii Bio
VC Circle adds:
11) Brenco (Brazilian sugar ethanol company)
12) SKS Microfinance (Microfinance)
Plus a list of Web 2.0 companies where Khosla has invested.
13) Frengo (Mobile messaging and contests)
14) FatKat (Quant-based stock investing)
15) iSkoot (Skype-to-mobile phone service)
16) Xobni (Email analytics)
17) Slide (Slide show creator of photos)
(The list may not be exhaustive.)


