Summary
Jon Chu is a Partner at Khosla Ventures and a repeat founder with 13 years of engineering and product leadership across startups and major tech companies. He cofounded Koality (acquired by Docker), led core ML and growth teams at Opendoor, ran SMB ads ranking and ML efforts at Meta, and was an early engineer at Palantir—experience that spans product, infra, ML and developer-facing platforms. At Khosla he boards and advises startups across AI, infra and developer tools, and has an unusually early angel track record in names like Databricks, Anthropic and Figma. He currently chairs and co-founded Shadowfax AI, signaling a continued founder-investor blend. Trained at Carnegie Mellon, he combines deep technical chops with operator instincts and a knack for spotting category-defining teams before they scale.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science with University Honors School of Computer Science College Honors Computer Science and Math, Bachelor of Science with University Honors School of Computer Science College Honors Computer Science and Math at Carnegie Mellon University