Vijit Sabnis, Phd

Co-Founder-in-Residence

Vijit joined DVL in January 2020 as a Co-founder-In-Residence. Prior to DVL, Vijit was a partner at Khosla Ventures for almost five years, where he worked in the areas of biotechnology, healthcare, additive manufacturing, food technology, computation, and photonics and learned the nuances of building deep tech startups. Prior to Khosla Ventures, Vijit was co-founder and CEO of Solar Junction, which commercialized the world’s highest efficiency solar cells at that time, and was an early employee at Translucent, which developed new materials solutions for silicon photonics and electronics applications. Vijit received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley.