Hari Arul

Hari is a Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he invests and partners with entrepreneurs across sectors, particularly in areas that advance our intelligence (AI), our security (cyber, infrastructure), and our health.

Hari is returning to KV after five and a half years as Cofounder and President of Bold, a health tech company that is closing the gap between healthspan and lifespan through personalized, evidence-based exercise.  Hari founded the company with his wife, Bold’s CEO, after their shared experience caregiving for her grandmother, and has scaled partnerships with many of the largest Medicare organizations in the country, helping to prevent falls and improve physical activity for those who most need it.

Prior to Bold, Hari was Vinod Khosla’s chief of staff, where he worked closely with Vinod and the team investing and supporting the KV portfolio. 

Hari began his career as an engineering and product lead at Palantir Technologies, where he built products and led partnerships with some of the company’s largest customers, spanning financial services and healthcare.

Hari graduated with distinction from Stanford University in 3 years with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, focused on computational biology.