Khosla Ventures' median series A investment is around $3 million.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
Judge as of September 2010, against Khosla Ventures' Series A investments in roughly 2006–2010. True: the median Khosla Ventures Series A check (the firm's own investment, or the round size if that is what the data allow) was about $2–4 million. Mostly true: the median was about $1.5–2M or $4–5M. Mixed: the data are ambiguous, for example the firm's checks fit the claim but round sizes do not. Mostly false: the median was about $5–8M or under $1.5M. False: the median was far from $3M (over about $8M).
Set before the research began.
Evidence (5)
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E1 How Seed Funding Has Exploded In The Past 10 Years Crunchbase News · 28 October 2021
“In the mid-2000s, venture firms accustomed to investing $3 million to $5 million at Series A and $8 million to $12 million at Series B weren’t all that interested in joining what looked like institutional angel rounds.”
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E2 How Seed Funding Has Exploded In The Past 10 Years Crunchbase News · 28 October 2021
“We also looked at the median and average deal sizes for seed rounds for these 14 multistage funds over the decade, and found the median seed deal has grown from $1.5 million to $4 million, and the average from $1.7 million to $4.6 million.”
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E3 Vinod Khosla: "I don’t mind failing, but when we succeed it has to be worth it" Moonfare · 20 October 2024
“We don’t do ten 20-million-dollar investments. We do ten one-million-dollar investments. This way we learn about new areas.”
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E4 Inside VC: Samir Kaul of Khosla Ventures on Evaluating and Managing Risk in 2023 GEN Edge (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News) · 3 February 2023 Own record
“We bought 50% of Impossible Foods for $3 million. We bought 40% of Just Foods for $500,000.”
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E5 Khosla Ventures into healthcare with Zocdoc | Zocdoc Zocdoc · 19 August 2008
“today announced it has completed a $3 million Series A round of financing led by Khosla Ventures.”
Reasoning
E5 records a single $3M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Zocdoc, 2008). That fits the claim, but one deal does not establish a median. E1 and E2 describe industry-wide Series A norms and seed medians across a group of funds, not Khosla's Series A median for 2006–2010. E3 and E4 are statements by Khosla figures and give no stage or date for the median, so the evidence does not settle the claim.
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Vinod Khosla, “Khosla Ventures' median series A investment is around $3 million.” (said 29 September 2010). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_ee70c18ad92a, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_ee70c18ad92a
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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