Adina Tecklu

Adina is a Partner at Khosla Ventures, where she focuses on software, AI, and financial services at the Seed – Series B stage. She has led the firm’s investments in Aven, Homebase, Danswer, CloudTrucks, Limbic, SketchPro, Tortus, Ravenna, Stuut, Luzia, and Respin, among others that haven’t yet been announced.

She started her venture career at Canaan where she built Canaan Beta, the firm’s seed practice, from the ground up and led the firm’s investments in Brigit and Tia Clinic. While there she also served on the boards of ContentSquare and Hugo. Prior to investing, Adina spent her early career supporting HCM software at Oracle where she learned what it takes to build and sell to large enterprise customers. She then joined Zenefits as an early employee where she helped build out several key carrier partnerships, as well as the products necessary to support them, during the company’s hyper growth phase from dozens of employees to well over a thousand.

Adina holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering.