Rajesh Swaminathan

Rajesh is a Partner at Khosla Ventures and brings with him two decades of experience assisting and investing in deeptech startups. At KV, Rajesh assists entrepreneurs and manages investments across batteries, hydrogen, solar, sustainable plastics, carbon capture, foodtech, healthcare – focusing on materials science driven innovations that have a large societal impact. Before joining Khosla Ventures, Rajesh served as the Head of Applied Ventures (AV), the VC arm of Applied Materials (AMAT) and at Third Point Ventures. At AV, Rajesh managed a portfolio of 85 deeptech startups. Previously, at Lucent’s Bell Labs, he drove technology partnerships with several Optical, MEMS, RF device startups. During his MBA at the Harvard Business School, he worked at Deutsche Bank’s cleantech banking team, and with Khosla Ventures. Rajesh pursued an M.S. from the University of Maryland at College Park, and received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.