Silicon Valley, where engineers in khakis write software code, might not at first glance have much to do with the world of rap music, where artists in sagging pants write irreverent lyrics. But Ben Horowitz, a prominent venture capital investor here, says rap holds a trove of lessons for tech entrepreneurs. Throw business classes and…

Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, talks about the venture-capital firm’s $1.5 billion “Fund III,” aimed at investing in technology companies. He speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.”

Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has helped fuel Silicon Valley’s latest Web boom with investments in hot companies from Facebook Inc. to Twitter Inc., said it has raised two new funds totaling $1.5 billion, in one of the larger fundraisings in the venture-capital industry. The new funds cement the status of Andreessen Horowitz, founded by…

Marc Andreessen jokingly says software will eat the world. Today his venture-capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, is putting its money where that mouth is. It just raised $1.5 billion in its Fund III for several tech companies, including several software companies that intend to “disrupt traditional industries,” says Ben Horowitz, co-founder and general partner at Andreessen…

Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm run by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and his partner Ben Horowitz, is fast becoming one of the most influential forces in Silicon Valley. On Tuesday, the firm announced that it has raised a whopping $1.5 billion to invest in tech startups. The massive investment pool demonstrates the intense investor…

Last week, we heard from Evelyn Rusli at the New York Times that Andreessen Horowitz was in the process of raising $1.5 billion for the venture firm. Today, partner Ben Horowitz has confirmed that the fund has closed, bringing Andreessen Horowitz’s total funding under management to $2.7 billion. The firm says that the $1.5 billion…

Venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.5 billion for a new fund, bringing the firm’s assets under management to $2.7 billion and cementing the firm’s position among the venture-capital elite. “It’s a very opportunity-rich environment right now,” said Marc Andreessen, the firm’s co-founder, who said the firm planned to stick to its strategy of investing…

Andreessen Horowitz is dramatically increasing its funds under management– again. The firm has raised a $1.5 billion third fund, bringing the total under management to $2.7 billion. “It’s a pretty big step up,” said Marc Andreessen in an early morning call. Part of the reason was pragmatic and part was opportunistic. Fund two was mostly…

On Sand Hill Road — the famed strip in Menlo Park, Calif., that is home to venture capital‘s titans — wealth tends to beget even more wealth. At a time when the largest firms are getting larger, and the mid-size ones are shrinking, Andreessen Horowitz is claiming its spot in the winner’s circle. The venture…

So much for those rumors Marc Andreessen’s investors were fed up with him: The Netscape co-founder and his partners at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz on Tuesday announced their third fund, a $1.5 billion haul. That’s one of the biggest in recent VC industry history, according to the National Association of Venture Capitalists. And it…

Andreessen Horowitz raises a whopping $1.5 billion. Andreessen Horowitz is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Unlike most other Silicon Valley venture capital firms, however, Andreessen Horowitz doesn’t struggle to raise new funds. Instead, institutional investors virtually beg for the privilege of participating. It can’t be long until other VCs film a series of video…

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has closed $1.5 billion for its third fund. The firm has now raised a startling $2.7 billion in its relatively short run since its founding in June 2009. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based firm has invested in companies such as Airbnb, Box.net, Fab, Facebook, Fusion.io, Foursquare and Pinterest. The new large fund shows the…

The rush to cash in on the next wave of high-growth internet start-ups has enabled Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm with ties to Facebook, to raise $1.5bn in one of Silicon Valley’s biggest recent fund-raisings. Coming in the wake of a sharp fall in the overall amount of money going into venture capital, the development…

Andreessen Horowitz has closed its third fund at $1.5 billion, raising a total of $2.7 billion in less than three years and marking the firm as one of the biggest venture capital fund raisers in Silicon Valley history. Founded in June, 2009, by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and his colleague Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz has deployed close to $1.2…

The team of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, a duo since the go-go Netscape days of the mid-1990s, is on fire. Today, their 3-year-old venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, announced that it has closed its third fund–this one, $1.5 billion, brings the total amount they’ve raised to $2.7 billion, which isn’t bad for a time when…