More About Angela
Angela Strange is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she focuses on financial services, insurance, and B2B software (with AI). Today, Angela serves on the boards of Addi, Cygnvs, hyperexponential, Jeeves, Moov, Sardine, Tally, Valon, and Vesta.
Angela also coined the idea that “Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company” — the now widely cited observation that companies will increasingly derive a significant portion of their revenue from financial services driven by the influx of new, transformative financial infrastructure tools.
Prior to joining a16z, Angela was a product manager at Google where she launched and grew Chrome for Android and Chrome for iOS into two of Google’s most successful mobile products. She has also served as director of product management and business development at Ruba.com (acquired by Google), a senior associate partner at Bay Partners focusing on the consumer internet sector, and a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting in Toronto.
Angela helped launch and was co-chair of C100, a non-profit that bridges Canadian entrepreneurs with Silicon Valley, and on the Canadian Finance Minister Morneau’s Economic Growth Council. She earned her Mechanical Engineering degree from Queen’s University in Canada and an MBA from Stanford. Angela is also a world-class athlete, having spent two years training professionally as a runner; she has won several marathons and achieved a seventh-place national ranking in Canada.
Latest Content
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In the not-so-distant future, consumers and businesses will be able to instruct an agent to make any payments they want on their behalf.
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At a16z'a fourth annual Connect/Fintech event, discussions spanned what's working in AI, operational lessons on how to scale faster, and the future of banking charters.
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For voice agents in finance to become successful, they will need to navigate a number of industry-specific nuances.
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In the January 2025 Fintech newsletter, we break down the rise of vertical AI in accounting, big ideas for 2025 in fintech, and market intel.
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As we prepare to step into 2025, the possibilities for applied AI are reshaping industries in profound ways.
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Jack Henry CTO Ben Metz shares how banks’ historical tech infrastructure and regulatory obstacles have stymied innovation—and how Jack Henry is helping them overcome these challenges.
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Did you know the U.S. nurse labor market is over $600 billion annually, but the dedicated software market for nurses is almost zero?
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In this post, we will look at how AI will open new markets previously deemed too “small” to support a large vertical SaaS company.
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In this month's fintech newsletter, we look at how AI is driving a new beginning for fintech. Plus, when fintechs look more like banks, what does it mean for valuations?
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In this post, we look at how AI is increasing VSaaS revenue per customer by enabling vertical SaaS companies to take on tasks previously too complex for software.
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Every white-collar role will have an AI copilot. Some of these roles will be fully automated with AI agents.
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Latin America is emerging as a tech powerhouse, but it's not a one-size-fits-all market.
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With LLMs and AI-enabled data infrastructure, common sales activities will be redefined and completely new seller workflows will emerge.
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Here's where AI agents and software can have the most immediate impact on your business, and make you more efficient and productive.
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a16z General Partner Angela Strange, Plaid CEO Zach Perret, and Marqeta CEO Simon Khalaf discuss how AI and fintech will shape the future of banking.
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In this In the Vault episode, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with Jeff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about industry trends and AI.
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Over the past decade, data infrastructure across industries has been modernized by many disruptors like Databricks, Fivetran, et al. The modern data stack has made it much easier for companies to ingest, store, query, an...
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A new age of maritime exploration, the rise of the developer as a buyer in financial services, and more applications for computer vision and video intelligence. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innovation in 2024. Here in our 3-part series, you’ll hear directly from partners across all our verticals, as we dive even more deeply into these ideas. What’s the why now? Who is already building in these spaces? What opportunities and challenges are on the horizon? And how can you get involved?
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Software crosses borders effortlessly. The globalization of money, however, is considerably more challenging. This is especially true for multinational businesses, which grapple with managing multiple accounts in diverse currencies, navigating costly foreign exchange rates, and unpredictable money transfers. As businesses increasingly embrace a global default, top fintech entrepreneurs are rising to the challenge, addressing cross-border infrastructure issues and offering comprehensive solutions. In this episode, a16z partners Angela Strange, Joe Schmidt, and Gabriel Vasquez discuss the challenges of cross-border payment infrastructures and what fintech entrepreneurs are doing to create a more integrated, financially inclusive world.
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金融業界ではもう10年以上にわたって、人工知能（AI）と機械学習（ML）が引受業務の改善や詐欺防止システムの強化などに幅広く利用されている。大規模言語モデル（LLM）に基づく生成AIによって飛躍的な進歩が可能になり、教育、ゲーム、コマースのあり方そのものまで変わってきた。これまでは既存のデータから予測したり分類することが主なAI/MLの使い道だったが、生成AIを使えばこれまでにない新たなサービスを生み出すことができる。
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How cross-border infrastructure, instant payments, and open banking advances are creating a more integrated, financially inclusive world.
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The company of the future is default global. Top fintech entrepreneurs are pursuing integrated cross-border payment infrastructure and full-stack solutions.
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Softwares são globais por natureza e transcendem fronteiras com facilidade. A globalização do dinheiro, no entanto, é um desafio muito maior.
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A medida que la compañía del futuro se vuelve global por defecto, ahora existe un verdadero catalizador para el cambio. Los principales emprendedores buscan una infraestructura transfronteriza que sea más fácil de usar e integrar, así como soluciones completas para las propias empresas.
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Many digital-first companies have been propelled by generative AI. However, selling these digital products globally is not a straightforward undertaking. Here's how to simplify the cross-border selling experience, get in front of the right customers, and build long-term value.
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If you’re looking for something fun, or a bit more business-minded, to read, watch, or listen to, a16z’s Fintech partners have you covered.
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The emergence of generative AI could yield the largest transformation the financial services market has seen in decades.
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At the end of 2022, our team at a16z asked dozens of partners across the firm to spotlight one big idea that startups in their fields could tackle in 2023. Emerging from this exercise came 40+ builder-worthy pursuits for the year, ranging from entertainment franchise games to precision delivery of medicine to small modular reactors, and of course loads of AI applications. In our 2-part series, we’ll be covering 12 of these big ideas with the partners that shared them. Here in part 2, we’ll cover Fintech, American Dynamism, and Bio & Health. Listen in as we chat with Anish Acharya, Angela Strange, Michelle Volz, Ryan McEntush, Vijay Pande, and Julie Yoo. And for the full list of 40+ ideas, check out the full article: https://a16z.com/2022/12/15/big-ideas-in-tech-2023/
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Cyber incidents have reached a crisis level over the past decade. In 2021, the U.S. saw 1,862 data compromises, affecting nearly 300 million people (a nearly 100% increase from five years ago). Cybersecurity practitioner...
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Vamos nos aprofundar em cinco dessas mudanças regulatórias que vêm impulsionando essa explosão de fintechs—pagamento instantâneo, Open Finance, licenciamento, aquisição de pagamentos e seguros—e nas empresas que foram criadas a partir delas.
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Instant payments, tiered licensing for fintech startups, sandbox programs, and other regulatory changes have had a marked impact on financial services.
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Over the past several years, the field of fintech infrastructure has exploded with venture capital investment and entrepreneurial attention. Between the emergence of Stripe, Plaid, and other category-defining decacorns;...
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Com empresas do futuro bem-sucedidas iniciando suas atividades em diversos países ao mesmo tempo, inúmeras oportunidades se abrem para startups ambiciosas que querem desenvolver os sistemas internos de software de que essas organizações precisarão para crescer.
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Much opportunity exists to build a modern software stack that supports the next generation of default global companies, from local employment law and talent sourcing to multi-country incorporation and expense management.
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A medida que los exitosos negocios del mañana se lanzan en varios países a la vez, abundan las oportunidades para las empresas emergentes ambiciosas que buscan construir los sistemas de software internos que estas empresas necesitarán para crecer.
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We wrote about the CFO in crisis mode and the need for better software to be built for the finance suite. If the average CFO is in a crisis, the emerging markets CFO serve are in an even bigger crisis! In LatAm for insta...
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Building and scaling a company is HARD. The mechanics of just getting set up should not be.
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I am excited to announce our investment in Sardine – aptly named for the “fishy” behavior this company will prevent. Sardine provides instant, risk-free ACH & card settlement to fintech and crypto companies enabling...
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Buying a home is the largest financial decision most of us will make. A mortgage is almost always necessary to facilitate this purchase. However, this critical financial instrument is one of the most stressful and cumber...
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In 2021, financial services continued to have its moment, with fintech fundraising surpassing all years prior. What's in store for 2022?
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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Open source will catalyze the financial services industry's biggest evolution to date. This evolution will shift the power in this $25 trillion industry from business executives to developers, not just in fintech compani...
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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Pre-pandemic, it was increasingly common for tech companies to have employees and operations in more than one country. Post pandemic, it’s almost guaranteed. The benefits of distributed workforces are obvious: access to...
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Fiat Meets Crypto; Bigger, Bolder Acquisitions; David Swensen’s Legacy (May 2021 fintech newsletter)
The digital and fiat ecosystems have long been separate universes. Not anymore.
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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There is an enormous amount of untapped opportunity in Latin America for financial services of all types. The region is currently experiencing an explosion of fintech activity, and this is just the beginning. Here are the key market dynamics, the headwinds, and where we believe the next billion-dollar companies will emerge.
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Há uma enorme quantidade de oportunidades inexploradas na América Latina para serviços financeiros de todos os tipos.
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América Latina está experimentando una explosión en la actividad fintech. Aquí, presentamos las dinámicas claves del mercado, los vientos en contra en la región, y donde vemos oportunidades para que surjan las próximas empresas de mil millones de dólares.
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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Imagine you never had to think about buying insurance—that it was automatically attached to everything you own. Your apartment is broken into? Renters insurance came with your lease. Your dog breaks his leg? Your vet bil...
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There are over 100 million people in the U.S. living paycheck to paycheck. Seventy percent of Americans have less than $1,000 saved and 45 percent have no savings at all. For many Americans, this story will sound familia...
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Owning a home has long been the American dream: nearly two-thirds of Americans have purchased a home, most often with the help of a mortgage, yielding nearly $10 trillion (and growing) in residential mortgage debt. Most...
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This year, as “every company becomes a fintech company,” fintech surged into mainstream consciousness. The fallout from COVID-19 crippled the economy, depressed small businesses, and scrambled many people’s financial out...
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Democratizing investing, embracing social+, embedding insurance, revamping distribution, empowering community, and disintermediating the banking system.