More About Marc
Marc Andrusko is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on B2B AI applications and fintech. His investment interests span capital markets, AI applications, payments infrastructure, and businesses operating at the intersection of fintech and other categories (primarily healthcare and vertical software).
Prior to a16z, Marc led the personal financial management vertical at Plaid, where he built and launched partnerships that help millions of consumers live healthier financial lives. Before Plaid, Marc was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he held roles across corporate development, strategy, and interest rate products sales & trading.
Marc graduated magna cum laude from Duke University, where he studied Public Policy, Environmental Science, and Markets & Management. He is based in New York City.
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As AI infrastructure providers like OpenAI and Anthropic move up the stack to launch consumer products, startups can build defensible positions by owning exclusive, high-quality data. Companies such as VLex and OpenEvidence show how proprietary, regulated, and dynamic datasets can create durable moats—and where the next “walled gardens” of data may emerge across sectors from law and medicine to climate and culture.
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Explore how startups allocate AI spending across models, infrastructure, creative tools, and vertical applications. See the top 50 AI-native companies driving the next wave of productivity and reshaping the future of work.
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Legal AI is transforming law firms and in-house teams, with impact driven by tools that align with business models, build trust, and automate workflows.
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Permissioned data access appears to be under siege. If data access becomes a closed-loop system, what breaks — and what is lost?
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Rillet is building the AI-native enterprise resource planning (ERP) system — a self-driving finance system designed from the ground up for speed, intelligence, and automation.
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Much of what worked for traditional SaaS companies doesn’t hold true for AI. Here's how enterprise AI startups are adapting, growing, and breaking out.
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New revenue benchmarks for gen AI startups in year one, based on dozens of enterprise and consumer AI companies we’ve spent significant time with.
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Camber is a company that is simplifying the healthcare reimbursement process for healthcare providers so they can focus on delivering quality care to their patients.
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No company loves their enterprise resource planning system (ERP). So why are ERPs the way they are, and why is now the right time for them to change?
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a16z's Marc Andrusko chats with Mastercard’s Chief AI and Data Officer Greg Ulrich about their long history of using AI, integrating generative AI into fraud detection, and the best advice he’s ever gotten.
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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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Eve is the AI-native case workspace that acts as an intelligent partner for plaintiff attorneys, helping them take on 3-4x the number of cases that they were previously able to handle.
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Sales is evolving. AI-native systems are replacing traditional CRM tools, capturing unstructured insights from emails, Slack, surveys, and more in real time. These systems automate early-stage tasks like prospecting and...
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A conversation about the role startups are playing in partnership with big banks and where Tim disagrees with the zeitgeist on the adoption of AI in financial services.
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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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Generative AI is working its way into everything, and firms want to show they are implementing this new tech — especially those that serve the accounting market.
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As students of financial markets, we’re keenly interested in moments of inflection which alter market structure, spawn dominant new institutions, and catalyze the growth of new asset classes. Historically, these shifts h...
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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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a16z will lead the Series A of Moment, a new company building infrastructure that abstracts away the complexities of embedding fixed income investments in any application.
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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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When pricing a new B2B fintech product or service, simplicity is the key, especially at the earliest stages.
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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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In this episode, Kurt Adams, CEO of Optum Financial, chats with Daisy Wolf, investment partner for a16z Bio + Health, and Marc Andrusko, investment partner for a16z focused on fintech.
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Consider this: most healthcare providers are flying blind when it comes to their finances.
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Today’s startups are harder-pressed to manufacture explosive growth in short periods of time. Yet that's what they need to do to compete with big firms.
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Debt is daunting—its labyrinth of complex rules, opaque governing bodies, and unique vernacular makes it difficult for the average consumer to understand. Concepts like credit scores, APRs, retroactive interest, and coll...
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If you’re a fintech nerd like me, you’ve probably opened up more neobank accounts than you can count.
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If you’re a fintech nerd like me, you’ve probably opened up more neobank accounts than you can count.
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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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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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When the U.S. government pursued its huge Covid stimulus package in 2020, they likely had little idea their actions would have such an impact on consumer fintech.
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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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Most of the wildly successful fintech companies haven’t done much in the healthcare sector. Why?
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Do SaaS para sistemas operacionais freemium: um novo diferencial para serviços financeiros.
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Plus, envisioning a new consumer banking stack, Apple & contactless payments, and building to reduce medical debt.
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Plus, credit reporting for BNPL, new regulations for payment apps, and is now a bad time to raise?
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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?