Rajesh Swaminathan

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.