Alice Brooks

Alice is a Principal at Khosla Ventures interested in sustainability, food and agriculture, manufacturing/supply chain, and education. She has worked with multiple startups in robotics, IoT, retail, consumer, and STEM education, and has run mechanical, electrical, and app development teams in the US and Asia. She has also established and managed manufacturing operations at factories in China and Taiwan.

Prior to KV, Alice was founder and CEO of Roominate, a STEM education company helping girls learn engineering concepts through play. Founded in 2012, Roominate’s products were distributed in more than 5000 retail outlets across the US, Canada, and Australia and it was acquired by Playmonster in 2015. Earlier, Alice worked at Nest in hardware.

Alice holds a bachelor of science degree from MIT and master of science degree from Stanford, both in mechanical engineering; she also holds an MBA from Harvard.