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Luis Bacalao

Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel

Luis manages legal operations for the fund and assists DCVC portfolio companies.

Luis has been in venture capital since 2016, when he joined Khosla Ventures as Assistant General Counsel. He then served as General Counsel of Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund before returning to Khosla Ventures as an Operating Partner focusing on special projects. Prior to his time in VC, Luis was in private practice at Fenwick & West in San Francisco and Davis Polk in New York. Throughout these experiences, Luis has negotiated and closed hundreds of deals across stage, scope, and juris­dic­tion. Luis received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.