Adina Tecklu

As a Principal at Khosla Ventures, Adina leads investments in SaaS and fintech businesses. She is especially interested in companies with disruptive business models and those that are building products for markets that have historically been overlooked. Adina has sourced and led the firm’s investments in Aven, CloudTrucks, Rain, and Limbic, among others. She also works closely at the board level with the firm’s investments in Homebase, Nomba, Ori, and Overture, among others.

Previously, Adina was an investor at Canaan where she built, launched and led Canaan Beta, the firm’s seed practice. She led the firm’s investments in companies ranging from Brigit and Tia Clinic to Superplastic and On Deck. While there, she also served on the board of ContentSquare and Hugo. Adina began her career as a solutions architect at Oracle before joining Zenefits as an early employee where she worked across operations, strategy, and partnerships during the company’s hyper-growth phase.

Adina holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering.