Khosla Ventures is opening its first office outside Menlo Park this fall on 14th Street in New York City, a rare geographic expansion for a firm that has historically operated from a single Sand Hill Road base and maintains no San Francisco presence.
Keith Rabois, a Khosla Ventures investor, confirmed the move Thursday at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event. The office will feature an executive briefing center hosting 10 to 12 portfolio companies, four days a week, for meetings with Fortune 500 companies—a deliberate infrastructure play to accelerate pilot deals and customer acquisition.
Rabois relocated to the East Coast months earlier to be closer to his family in Washington, D.C. where his husband, Jacob Helberg, serves as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment.
New York offers density in junior technical talent. Rabois cited Ramp, a fintech portfolio company, as evidence that the city can support rapid hiring of recent graduates and scaling through internship-to-hire pipelines. But he identified a real constraint: finding senior architect-level engineers in New York remains difficult. He suggested modern companies may require fewer such roles than in the past—a capital-efficient observation.
The harder problem is senior executive retention. Many remain based outside the city, making daily commuting into an office a deterrent. Rabois, who grew up in a New York commuter suburb, understands the lifestyle trade-off.
