Adina Tecklu
Partner
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures partner investing in early-stage software, AI and fintech.
Bio
Professional summary
Rajesh Swaminathan is a Partner at Khosla Ventures investing in companies reinventing how the world powers, builds, and heals itself. He leads many of the firm's investments across renewables, industrial decarbonization, advanced manufacturing, critical minerals, compute infrastructure, and the convergence of those domains with AI. Before joining Khosla Ventures, he led Applied Ventures, the venture arm of Applied Materials, managing a global portfolio of 85 startups and two deep-tech funds in Korea and Taiwan, and earlier worked with startups at Third Point Ventures and Lucent's Bell Labs.
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- Khosla VenturesPartner
- Applied VenturesHead
- Third Point VenturesInvestor
- Lucent Bell LabsStartup Partnerships and Network Systems
Education
- Harvard Business SchoolMBA
- University of MarylandGraduate studies
- IIT MadrasUndergraduate degree, Engineering
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