Khosla Ventures is opening its first office outside Sand Hill Road, taking space on 14th Street in New York this fall.
Partner Keith Rabois confirmed the plan on stage at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in the West Village, noting the firm does not even keep a San Francisco office. “It’s actually allegedly being built out now,” he said of the New York space.
The unusual feature is an executive briefing center. Khosla plans to bring 10 or 12 portfolio companies at a time to meet Fortune 500 buyers four days a week, turning the office into a pipeline for pilots and customers rather than just a place for partners to sit.
Rabois moved east himself to be closer to family based in Washington, D.C. Asked whether New York matches the Bay Area on talent, he split the answer by seniority: individual contributors straight out of school are plentiful, citing Ramp’s intern-to-hire pipeline, while senior engineers and architects remain a challenge. Proven executives are the hardest hire, he said, largely because in-office culture collides with commutes from the suburbs.
The move lands weeks after CBRE reported that New York narrowly overtook the San Francisco Bay Area in total tech talent headcount for the first time in 13 years, a shift driven by finance firms hiring aggressively for AI roles while Bay Area employers trimmed staff.
Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz have kept New York partners for years. Khosla is now betting that proximity to East Coast customers, not just capital, is what portfolio companies need next.
