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WHAT WE BELIEVE
The American Dynamism practice invests in founders and companies that support the national interest: aerospace, defense, public safety, education, housing, supply chain, industrials, and manufacturing. We believe that mission-driven and civic-minded founders often build companies that transcend verticals and business models in their quest to solve important national problems. These companies view the government as a customer, competitor, or key stakeholder—and the success of these companies supports the flourishing of all Americans. Dynamic companies exist in all 50 states and have a global impact.
THE MOVEMENT
American Dynamism embodies the spirit of innovation, progress, and resilience that drives the United States forward. This powerful force is exemplified by groundbreaking achievements in technology and innovation, shaping both our nation and the global landscape. It reflects the American commitment to pushing boundaries, embracing challenges, and always striving for a brighter, more prosperous future. Investing in visionary founders and teams tackling the world’s most pressing problems is essential to fueling this dynamic spirit and ensuring continued progress for generations to come.
1903
Wright Brothers Take Flight
The Wright Brothers’ first successful powered flight revolutionized transportation, paving the way for modern aviation and radically altering global communication and trade.
1942
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project developed the first atomic bomb, shifting the course of WWII and introducing the world to the power of nuclear technology.
1947
Invention of the Transistor
The transistor’s invention led to smaller, faster electronics, enabling the digital age and transforming industries from computing and communications to medicine and entertainment.
1969
The Moon Landing
Apollo 11’s moon landing showcased American technological prowess, inspiring generations and setting the stage for future space exploration and scientific advancements.
1974
Microprocessors
The invention of microprocessors reshaped modern life by revolutionizing computing and empowering the development of personal computers, smartphones, and countless other electronic devices.
1984
The Internet is Born
The internet profoundly transformed society and culture by facilitating global communication, information sharing, and commerce.
1991
Modern Lithium-ion Battery Invented
The invention of the modern Lithium-ion battery enabled portable electronics and electric vehicles, significantly impacting energy storage, transportation, and sustainability.
2007
iPhone is Announced
The iPhone transformed mobile technology with its innovative touchscreen, advanced camera, and diverse app ecosystem, redefining communication and software interaction, and inspiring numerous consumer and enterprise products.
2015
SpaceX Lands a Rocket First Stage
SpaceX’s historic rocket landing demonstrated reusable rocket technology, drastically reducing space transportation costs, and opening new opportunities in space exploration and commercial activity.
2022
Generative AI Goes Mainstream
Generative AI reshaped how we think about interacting with computers and the creative process. It also raised important—and yet unanswered—questions in areas such as law, philosophy, and the future of productivity.
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Ben Horowitz: The Fight Over Open Source AI
Ben Horowitz joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini to discuss one of the biggest debates in AI today: the future of open-source models. They examine the growing push to restrict open models, why Ben believes open source is...
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Building the Physical AI Stack | Travis Kalanick on TBPN
Travis Kalanick joins TBPN to discuss Atoms, his vision for industrial AI, and why he believes the biggest opportunities in AI lie beyond software.
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Sriram Krishnan on Open Source AI’s Biggest Week Yet
Sriram Krishnan joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini just after concluding his tenure as Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI to discuss one of the biggest weeks yet for open-source AI. They unpack the rapid release of...
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Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition has spent the past decade building the software that powers intelligent machines, from passenger vehicles and trucks to defense systems, mining equipment, and industrial robots.
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The 7 Hires a Hardware Startup Needs to Get Right
Non-engineering hires determine whether a great product becomes a great business.
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Connor Love
a16z is thrilled to welcome Connor Love as our newest General Partner
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Replay 2025: David Sacks on AI, Crypto, and America’s Technology Future
As part of our summer replay series, we're revisiting one of our most-discussed conversations from the past year.
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Can Anyone Catch NVIDIA? | The Future of Chips and Infrastructure
As part of our summer replay series, we're revisiting one of our favorite conversations on the future of AI infrastructure.
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a16z Goes Global: Why American Tech Must Lead the World
Ben Horowitz is joined by Anne Neuberger, Raghu Raghuram, and Jen Kha to discuss a16z's expanding international strategy and the growing role technology plays in economic growth, national security, and global partnership...
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Beyond P(doom): Marc Andreessen – Betting on America
Marc Andreessen joins CSIS's Navin Girishankar for a wide-ranging conversation on artificial intelligence, productivity growth, industrial policy, and America's technological future.
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How to Win a Space War
In a space war, America must fight on the side of order
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Samo Burja on Growth, Energy, and AI
Theo Jaffee speaks with Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis, about AI, industrial capacity, economic growth, and the institutions that shape civilization.
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Designing the Physical World with AI
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Alex Modon, cofounder and CEO at Unlimited Industries, and Davide Asnaghi, CEO at Diode Computers, about how AI is moving from software into the physical world. They discuss automating const...
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Technology is Security, for America and Her Allies
Our allies are no longer interested in a simple buyer-seller relationship; they want to build with us
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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini speak with Balaji Srinivasan and Steven Glinert about the shifting balance of power between nations, networks, and technology.
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Investing in Westmag
a16z leads Westmag's Seed round
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Keeping the Drone Swarm Alive
During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, officers joked that there was “nothing unmanned about unmanned aircraft.” A single MQ-9 required over 180 people to keep it running, including pilots, sensor operators, launch-and...
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How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery
a16z general partners Erin Price-Wright and Erik Torenberg speak with Doug Bernauer, founder and CEO of Radiant, and Drew Baglino, founder and CEO of Heron, about rebuilding American energy infrastructure. They discuss p...
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Rebuilding The American Shipyard
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Michael Duffey and Dino Mavrookas about what it will take to rebuild the American defense industrial base for a new era of competition. As production capacity becomes a central constraint, t...
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Welcome General (R) Bryan P. Fenton
General Bryan Fenton joins a16z as a Special Advisor
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The Plan to Make American Crime Obsolete
David Ulevitch speaks with Col. Jeffrey Glover and Rahul Sidhu about how AI, drones, and sensor networks are reshaping public safety and what it takes to bring new technology into law enforcement at scale. As departments...
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Energy, Minerals, and the Physical Stack Behind AI
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Turner Caldwell and Drew Baglino about what it will take to close America's critical minerals gap and modernize the power infrastructure that underpins the AI economy. With the US more than...
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“No Man Left Behind”: American Technology Ships with Our Values
China is already building autonomous weapons at scale. The question is whether America builds them first, or cedes the rules of war to Beijing
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Ben Horowitz on the Next Technology Era
David Ulevitch speaks with Ben Horowitz about what it means to lead the technology industry at scale, and the responsibilities that come with it. Following the firm’s largest-ever fundraise, they discuss how venture capi...
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The New Space Race: NASA, Artemis, and the Race to the Moon
Morgan Brennan speaks with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman about the next phase of American space exploration and the urgency behind returning to the moon. They discuss the Artemis program, the challenges of cost, spee...
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Sarah Rogers: Free Speech, AI Diplomacy, and What America Owes Its Allies
Katherine Boyle speaks with Sarah Rogers, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, about the intersection of AI, free speech, and global information systems. They discuss how major technological shifts, from the printing pr...
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The Shift in Global Drug Development
Theo Jaffee and Gabriel Dickinson speak with Cremieux about China’s rapid rise to the top of global clinical trial output. They discuss the regulatory reforms that accelerated China’s progress, the surge in novel drug de...
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DoW Contracting for Startups 101
Updated for April 2026: The following is a high-level primer intended to arm you with a rough framework of how to approach selling to the DoD today
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The System Behind Self-Driving: Waymo’s Dmitri Dolgov
Waymo is now delivering hundreds of thousands of fully autonomous rides each week — but getting there required more than better models. It meant building a complete system for training, evaluating, and deploying a driver...
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Investing in Ulysses
a16z leads Ulysses Series A
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Frontier Systems for the Physical World
Robot learning, autonomous science, and new interfaces as instances of an emerging paradigm for physical AI
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American credulity, American dynamism
America has repeatedly secured geopolitical dominance by mobilizing capital and talent behind transformative technologies, from the atomic bomb to the internet. Artificial intelligence is the next opportunity.
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Antarctica, and the Extreme Logistics of Human Exploration
Of all the harsh environments on Earth, one stands above the rest.
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We Can (and Do) Solve Crime
How Flock is helping make America safer, one city at a time
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The SpaceX and Tesla Playbook for Hard Tech Startups
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Chandler Luzsicza, founder and CEO of Galadyne, and Turner Caldwell, cofounder and CEO of Mariana Minerals, about what they actually learned building Starship and Tesla's lithium refinery, a...
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Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure
David Ulevitch speaks with Justin Fanelli, CTO of the Navy, and John Doyle, founder and CEO at Cape, about how the Navy is transforming its approach to technology adoption, from running bootcamps for program managers to...
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Submarines and the Future of Defense Manufacturing
David Ulevitch speaks with Chris Power, founder and CEO at Hadrian, and Vice Admiral Robert Gaucher, the Pentagon's first direct reporting portfolio manager for submarines, at the opening of Hadrian's Factory Four in Che...
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The Missing Power Layer of Modern Warfare
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Adam Warmoth, founder and CEO of Chariot Defense, and Alex Miller, CTO of the U.S. Army, about the power crisis at the heart of modern military operations. As the battlefield becomes more di...
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Why Every Satellite Needs Earth | Northwood CEO on a16z
Bridgit Mendler, Co-founder and CEO of Northwood, joins a16z’s Erik Torenberg to discuss the critical but overlooked bottleneck in space: ground infrastructure. Northwood is building the systems that connect satellites b...
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Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar
In this conversation, Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, discusses his new book Mobilize, his commission in the U.S. Army, and why he believes the most important thing America can do right n...
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AI, Supply Chains, and the Future of Economic Power
Erik Torenberg sits down with Jacob Helberg to discuss AI, manufacturing, supply chains, and the new geopolitics of technology. Drawing on themes from Helberg’s book The Wires of War, they explore why hardware, industria...
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Emil Michael: Iran, Anthropic and the Future of AI at the Pentagon
This conversation with Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Michae...
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race
This conversation with Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of Palantir, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Karp discusses the role of technology in modern warfare, Silicon Valley's obligations...
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What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety’s CEO
In this episode, previously aired on Cheeky Pint, Garrett Langley describes how a stolen gun in his Atlanta neighborhood led him to build Flock Safety, now deployed in more than 6,000 cities and involved in clearing over...
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Ben Thompson: Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Limits of Private Power
In this conversation, previously aired on TBPN, John Coogan and Jordi Hays speak with Ben Thompson, founder of Stratechery, about his essay "Anthropic and Alignment" and the broader collision between AI power and state p...
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Investing in Chariot Defense
Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 0700 hours.
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Investing in Heron Power
Lots of words have been written lately (many by us!) about our failing grid, AI’s insatiable need for power, and the distressing rise in the cost of electricity delivery relative to the incredible progress that’s been ma...
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A Primer on Factory Economics for Startups
The "Factory-is-the-Product" Model in Venture-Backed Manufacturing
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WSJ x a16z: The Next 25 Years of Defense Innovation
In this episode from WSJ Invest Live, Andy Serwer speaks with Katherine Boyle, general partner at a16z, about the American Dynamism practice she helped launch four years ago. They discuss why saying "America" out loud st...
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Balaji and Dan Wang: The Engineering State vs Lawyerly State
Balaji Srinivasan speaks with Dan Wang, author of Breakneck, about China's industrial rise, America's competing strengths in software and finance, and what happens when an engineering state and a lawyerly state collide....
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Marc Andreessen: Who Runs the World’s AI?
Cisco president and CPO Jeetu Patel speaks with a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen about why AI may finally break a 50-year productivity slump—and what's at stake if America doesn't win the race. They discuss where value wil...
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Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem
a16z general partner Erik Torenberg speaks with Justin Mares, founder and CEO of Truemed. They discuss why American health outcomes are so poor compared to the rest of the developed world, how crop subsidies created a fo...
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Palmer Luckey on Hardware, Building, and the Next Frontiers of Innovation
Recorded live at our Founders Summit, a16z general partner Chris Dixon speaks with Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril and Oculus VR. They talk about what it takes to build hardware at scale, where the biggest technologica...
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Can AI Help Save Lives?
In this episode, a16z partner Kimberly Tan sits down with Michael Chime, the CEO and co-founder of AI emergency response platform Prepared, for a powerful conversation about how AI is transforming public safety — startin...
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Technology in 1776
If you had just five minutes to tell a Founding Father about the last 250 years in America, what would you say?
The American Dynamism 50: The Fight of the Future
50 AI companies advancing the national interest, from the last mile to low Earth orbit.
See Who's on the listMeet the American Dynamism Team
Innovation. Progress. Resiliency. Groundbreaking achievement. Our team is committed to identifying and supporting civic-minded founders ready to lead America. Tackling our biggest challenges requires courage. We find the companies who have it.
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Acquired By: DuPont
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Acquired By: Axon.com
IPO: IOT
M&A: SHPW
IPO: SPCX
IPO: STDN
Acquired By: Accenture
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