{"id":796595,"date":"2026-07-12T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796595\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:51:09","slug":"who-are-vinod-and-neeru-khosla-meet-the-new-seahawks-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796595\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are Vinod and Neeru Khosla? Meet the new Seahawks owners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated July 11, 2026, 9:50 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information.<\/p>\n

The Seattle Seahawks<\/a> have new owners.<\/p>\n

Vinod Khosla, a limited partner of the San Francisco 49ers, led a group to purchase the NFL team from the Allen family for a record $9.6 billion, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter<\/a>. Kholsa’s wife, Neeru Khosla, will work as the controlling owner<\/a>, disputing a previous report that Vinod Kholsa would hold that role.<\/p>\n

Who are the Khoslas, the new Seahawks owners?<\/p>\n

Well, Vinod Kholsa is a 71-year-old billionaire businessman from India who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures. Neeru Kholsa is the co-founder and chair of the CK-12 Foundation. The two have been together since they were young.<\/p>\n

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Vinod Kholsa is worth $15.6 billion, according to Forbes<\/a>. He and his wife will now take over the Super Bowl champs, with Neeru Kholsa the one directly working with the league’s owners and taking on a major role in shaping the future of the NFL.<\/p>\n

Who owned the Seahawks before this?<\/p>\n

The family of the late tech businessman Paul Allen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated July 11, 2026, 9:50 p.m. ET Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[159202,49,48,514,252101,82,160666,160667,160670,172022,184362,160676,159798,160668,160683,159088,160679,159089,159085],"class_list":["post-796595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sourcefor-the-win","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsnfl","tag-sstsnnfl","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcalifornia-gold-rush","tag-tagcgr-sports","tag-tagespn-inc","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagseattle-seahawks","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}