Kristina Simmons, Khosla VenturesKristina Simmons, Chief of Staff and Investor at Khosla Ventures, explains about Khosla’s belief in reinventing societal infrastructures through technology. As a fund, they sit at the intersection of impact and financial returns, and are interested in funding the non-government components of GDP. “We see a lot of opportunity in healthcare: How do we democratize it? How do we apply AI to get better outcomes?,” added Simmons.
Simmons believes that we need more startups that will reinvent entire categories, as opposed to creating incremental changes. “We get excited about deeper science and tech. It takes longer for these solutions to come to market, but they are truly disruptive. Impossible Foods, for instance, took years to grow and now they just announced a partnership with Burger King.