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Anjney Midha
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Anjney Midha

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Anjney Midha is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in AI, infrastructure, and open source technology. He serves on the boards of Black Forest Labs, Luma AI, Mistral AI, Sesame AI, LMArena, and OpenRouter.

A former founder and CEO, Anjney joined the firm in 2023. Immediately prior, Anjney was vice president of platform ecosystem at Discord where he oversaw all developer products for the company’s 200 million+ users. In this role, Anjney set up Discord’s first dedicated developer platform organization, launched its partnership with Midjourney, and helped it scale to one of the world’s fastest growing generative AI businesses. Anjney joined Discord via the acquisition of Ubiquity6, a pioneering computer vision and multiplayer technology company serving millions of users globally, where he was cofounder and CEO. Before that, Anjney was a partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he led the formation of the firm’s first dedicated seed fund and invested in companies across venture and growth stages.

As an angel investor, Anjney’s investments included Anthropic, Eleven Labs, Infinitus AI, Luma AI, Mashgin, Ideogram, as well as several other AI companies.

Originally from India and Singapore, Anjney pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Stanford University, and now lives in San Francisco. When he’s not submitting/merging PRs on open source repos, Anj loves surfing along the California coast.

Latest Content

  • OpenRouter is becoming the grid operator AI needs — offering a single API to access hundreds of LLMs, and handling failover, load balancing, and routing.

  • Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
    Anjney Midha, Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Ion Stoica, and Wei-Lin Chiang

    LMArena is reframing the problem of benchmarking AI models: What if the best way to test is to put them in front of millions of users and let them vote?

  • Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
    Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Rick Rubin, Erik Torenberg, and Anjney Midha

    In this episode a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with legendary music producer and bestselling author Rick Rubin to explore the origin of his unexpected new creation: "The Way of Code"*

  • LMArena began as a Berkeley research project and has quickly become essential infrastructure for evaluating large language models.

  • Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
    Anjney Midha, Guido Appenzeller, and Erik Torenberg

    What happens when AI stops being just infrastructure—and becomes a matter of national identity and global power?

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