Shernaz Daver

Shernaz Daver is a technology marketing executive based in Menlo Park, California, who most recently served as the first Chief Marketing Officer at Khosla Ventures. During her nearly five-year tenure working alongside founder Vinod Khosla, she built the firm's entire marketing organization from scratch and positioned it as a leading artificial intelligence investor. Daver also successfully secured the firm's public recognition as the first institutional venture capital investor in Sam Altman's OpenAI following the highly publicized 2022 release of ChatGPT. Her three-decade career additionally includes a prominent executive role at Inktomi during the late 1990s search engine market expansion, where the technology company achieved a peak valuation of $37 billion. Daver's professional background centers on strategic branding, early trend prediction, and positioning venture capital executives as distinct products within the highly competitive global technology investment sector.