Khosla Ventures

Deals & regulation

1. Oct 8

   Invested in Arena · $200M at $3.1B

2. Jul 1

   Invested in Scaled Cognition · $100M

Trends

• Agent reliability becomes a funded tooling and monitoring layer

Items

1. Oct 8

   Arena raises $200M at $3.1B

   The UC Berkeley-born model-evaluation company nearly doubled its valuation to $3.1B in a Lightspeed- and Khosla-co-led round and launched an Arena Alignment Index measuring how frontier models act relative to human intent.

2. Jul 1

   Scaled Cognition raises $100M Series A

   The model lab led by Dan Klein and Dan Roth builds reliability-focused systems already in production at Fortune 500 firms, in a round led by Khosla Ventures.