Adina Tecklu
Partner at Khosla Ventures. Focus on software, AI, future of work, and financial services at the seed → Series B stage. Promoted to Partner July 2023 after Principal tenure.
Profile
- Title: Partner, Khosla Ventures
- Promoted: July 2023 (from Principal)
- Stage focus: Seed → Series B
- Sector focus: AI, software, developer tools, future of work, fintech, enterprise SaaS — “disruptive business models or markets/demographics that have historically been underserved”
- Pre-Khosla:
- Investor at Canaan — built the firm’s seed practice; led investments in Brigit, Tia Clinic
- Zenefits — early employee; helped build carrier partnerships during hyper-growth
- Oracle — supported HCM software
- Public profile: @adinatecklu on X; TechCrunch contributor
Named Khosla Portfolio Investments
Per her Khosla bio: Aven, Basis, Stuut, Rain, Singularity, Ravenna, Homebase, Limbic — “among others that haven’t yet been announced.”
Ravenna Relevance
- Khosla deal lead on Ravenna’s $15M pre-seed + seed (Apr 2025).
- Ravenna lists her on its about-us page as a named backer/advisor (alongside Halliday/Coleman’s other angels).
- Customer-investor crossover edge: Tecklu also leads Khosla’s investment in Homebase, which is simultaneously a Ravenna design-partner customer and whose CEO John Waldmann is a Ravenna angel investor. This is the cleanest single instance of Pattern 1: customer-investor crossover in the dataset. The triangle:
- Tecklu → Ravenna (Khosla institutional)
- Tecklu → Homebase (Khosla institutional, separate deal)
- Homebase → Ravenna (design-partner customer)
- Waldman (Homebase CEO) → Ravenna (personal angel)
Quotes
Specific Tecklu-Ravenna quote not surfaced this pass. ^[ambiguous — Khosla did not publish an investment post matching Madrona’s Tim-Porter-bylined post]