Kanu Gulati

Kanu is a partner at Khosla Ventures, where she invests in enterprise applications and infrastructure that leverage advances in AI, as well as robotics and autonomous systems. She has led, and helps manage, investments in companies, including PolyAI, Kognitos, Moonhub, Regie, Zendar, Nomagic, and Waabi, among others. Kanu has more than 10 years of operating experience as a research scientist at Intel and Cadence, and as an early engineer at Heavy.ai (hardware-accelerated analytics solution), Spyglass (predictive analytics for design, acquired by Synopsys), and Nascentric (fast-circuit simulation tool, acquired by Cadence). She was awarded the Nvidia Graduate Fellowship for her work in hardware acceleration. Kanu has co-authored three books; authored 35+ peer-reviewed publications; and holds a U.S. patent. She obtained a PhD and a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Texas A&M University and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Delhi. Kanu also earned her MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was co-president of the annual Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference.