Three people Vinod Khosla invested in won Nobel prizes after he invested in them.

True if, by 2020-02-24, three people whose companies or work Khosla or Khosla Ventures had backed won Nobel prizes after the investment date. Mostly true if the count is close (for example, two or four laureates) and all won after the investment. Mixed if some laureates were backed before their prize but others were backed after it, or the count is clearly off. Mostly false if the only laureates linked to Khosla investments were already laureates when backed, or the link is very indirect. False if no Khosla-backed person won a Nobel prize.

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1. E1 Earli Raises $40 Million Series A Funding Led by Khosla Ventures, With Perceptive Advisors, Casdin Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sands Capital Business Wire · 12 January 2021

   “Earli also announced today that Dr. Jim Allison, 2018 Nobel Laureate and Professor and Chair of Immunology at MD Anderson Cancer Center”

2. E2 Earli Raises $40 Million Series A Funding Led by Khosla Ventures, With Perceptive Advisors, Casdin Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sands Capital Business Wire · 12 January 2021

   “- Lee Hartwell (Former President Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Nobel Laureate)”

3. E3 Earli Raises $40 Million Series A Funding Led by Khosla Ventures, With Perceptive Advisors, Casdin Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sands Capital Business Wire · 12 January 2021

   “The financing was led by Khosla Ventures, along with Perceptive Advisors, Casdin Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sands Capital, and top individuals including Midas List investors”

4. E4 TechCrunch | Could a Nobel Prize-winning innovation have almost been overlooked by Silicon Valley? Khosla Ventures (republished on TechCrunch) · 8 October 2014 Own record

   “I want to congratulate Shuji Nakamura, the founder of Khosla Ventures portfolio company, Soraa, and his fellow collaborators who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics today.”

5. E5 TechCrunch | Could a Nobel Prize-winning innovation have almost been overlooked by Silicon Valley? Khosla Ventures (republished on TechCrunch) · 8 October 2014 Own record

   “These conversations eventually led to Shuji starting Soraa in 2008.”

E4 and E5 are Khosla Ventures' own republished text. They say Shuji Nakamura, founder of the portfolio company Soraa (started in 2008), won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, but they don't give the date Khosla invested. E1–E3 tie Jim Allison (2018 laureate) and Lee Hartwell to Earli, but only through a January 2021 financing announcement. That is after the claim date, and both were already laureates by then, so it doesn't show a backing that came before a prize. The evidence names at most one plausible case, supported only by the subject's own statements, and doesn't establish three laureates backed before their prizes.