Nicole Fraenkel
VCPartner & Head of Capital Formation, Khosla Ventures
Frontier AI investor and capital formation lead
Background
Nicole Fraenkel is a Partner and Head of Capital Formation at Khosla Ventures, leading frontier AI investments across infrastructure, enterprise, consumer, defense, and bio. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins and completed a DPhil in cancer and viral immunology through the Rhodes Scholarship and NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program. She led Khosla's largest seed investment since OpenAI into world-modeling lab General Intuition, and also bootstrapped luxury diamond brand Or & Elle to profitability.
Investment Thesis
Fund frontier AI companies building world models and physical intelligence at the earliest possible stage
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Based in: Menlo Park, CA (North America)