More About Zach
Zachary Cohen is an investor on the Consumer team. He focuses on companies building at the application layer in Generative AI.
Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, Zach was a consumer internet growth investor at General Atlantic. Zach started his career as an entrepreneur and built and eventually sold his first education startup, NextGen Bootcamp.
Zach graduated from NYU Stern School of Business with a degree in mathematical economics. Outside of work, Zach enjoys talking about all things food, writing jokes, and angrily watching the Knicks.
Latest Content
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Market research has long relied on expensive human surveys. Now AI research companies are replacing them with simulated societies of generative AI agents.
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Traditional search was built on links; GEO is built on language. A new paradigm is emerging, one driven not by page rank, but by AI models.
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Younger founders often lack the deep networks important for distribution and earned insights around high-value problems that older founders have. AI changes that.
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Today, we’re proud to announce we’ve led the Series A for Slingshot, the world’s first foundation model for psychology. This brings the total capital raised for the company to $40 million.
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An end-to-end design platform built specifically for retail product design. With Raspberry AI, designers can gather trend research, survey synthetic customer groups to product-test ideas, and generate real-world assets in seconds.
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The a16z consumer team tapped a grab bag of fellow early-adopters and AI enthusiasts to share their favorite products from a weird and wonderful year.
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Artists are at the forefront of the AI platform shift. As new high fidelity tools emerge along the creative stack, technology is extending the impact of filmmakers, designers, animators, illustrators, photographers, and multimedia artists.
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Recently, we invested in Function Health, a company that embodies the vision and excitement we had when writing those theses. The one piece we underestimated is the current state of latent demand among consumers for a new approach to healthcare and longevity.
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Over the last decade, we’ve seen the marketplace model evolve and grow, and this year a16z is back with our fourth edition of the Marketplace100 – a ranking of the top private marketplaces by GMV - giving a unique window into what may be to come. This year’s list features nearly three dozen newcomers, including marketplaces for refurbished electronics, precious metals, and sustainably raised meat. And in this episode, we break down key trends from the report together with a16z’s Consumer partners Connie Chan, Olivia Moore, and Zach Cohen. If you’d like to see the full ranking of the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies, you can find the full report https://a16z.com/marketplace-100.
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The a16z Marketplace 100 stacks up the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies. In this, our fourth annual ranking, the data revealed some of the most interesting takeaways to date.