ClaimsVinod Khosla

“a substantial amount of funding (greater than 90%) for our cleantech portfolio has come from private sources.”

Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures, in open letter to CBS 14 January 2014 Vinod Khosla hits back at 60 Minutes for cleantech errors (Fortune) archived copy

Factual Economics and markets

To the best of Khosla's knowledge, more than 90% of funding for the Khosla Ventures cleantech portfolio has come from private sources.

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Reasoning

Funding source breakdown of the portfolio is known to the firm; hedged by 'best of knowledge'.

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Vinod Khosla, “To the best of Khosla's knowledge, more than 90% of funding for the Khosla Ventures cleantech portfolio has come from private sources.” (said 14 January 2014). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_39b5e4460c97, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_39b5e4460c97

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