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Since our inception in 2009, Andreessen Horowitz has been a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Now, our headquarters will be in the cloud.

On behalf of a16z, I am thrilled to welcome Joe Morrissey as a General Partner to the a16z Growth team. Joe will focus on investing in enterprise companies—from the moment they’ve found product-market fit, all the way th...

We are proud to announce GAMES FUND ONE, a16z’s inaugural fund dedicated to building the future of the games industry.

We’re excited to announce the creation of a16z crypto research, a new kind of multidisciplinary lab that will work closely with our portfolio and others toward solving the important problems in the space, and toward advancing the science and technology of the next generation of the internet.

Introducing the a16z START program, which fuels founders at the earliest stages with 1:1 support, network introductions, and up to $1M in funding.

While the web3 ecosystem is still nascent, we’re already seeing the formation of a new internet economy that unlocks new opportunities for millions of people and enables participants to take control of their digital live...

We’re committed to working with and investing in the best founders who want to make American dynamism real. 

I am excited to announce that we have promoted Sarah Wang to General Partner on the Growth investing team. When we started the Growth Fund in 2019, we set out to back founders executing on unusually big visions for emerg...

2021 saw higher than ever funding of startups, continued maturation of the tech-enabled bio and healthcare landscape, and new platforms and business models that propelled growing levels of adoption and scale amongst both...

Andreessen Horowitz just raised $9B to invest via our Venture, Growth, and Bio funds. Why invest $9B in a brand new set of technology companies?

In 2021, we launched a16z Live to capture and share live discussions and events featuring, hosted, or co-hosted by a16z. Many of these different discussions and events take place on the social audio/ drop-in chat app Clu...

Today, we have a pair of big announcements: Congratulations to Jonathan Lai, and welcome James Gwertzman -- our newest General Partners on the consumer investing team. Together, we’re doubling (er, tripling?) down on the...

When we released our policy agenda and legislative proposals publicly last month, our goal was to catalyze a conversation about the next generation of the internet and the role of technology in open societies. We also ho...

As we outlined in our policy agenda, we’re radically optimistic about the potential of web3 and equally mindful that realizing that potential will depend in part on thoughtful regulation. We believe regulation has an imp...

Every day, it feels like the web3 community gets closer to fulfilling the promise of a new kind of internet that, as my partner Chris Dixon recently put it, is “owned by the builders and users, orchestrated with tokens.”...

Over the last few years a number of us in the firm have been sharpening our focus on investing categories that promote “American dynamism.” These categories include defense, national security, public safety, and what we’...

Crypto is at a crossroads. With innovation in the space accelerating so quickly and incredible new projects being launched every day, more and more leaders across business, finance, and government are starting to acknowl...

I first got to know Miles when I joined a16z and needed a go-to lawyer for all things crypto. As we searched to find a lawyer who truly understood crypto and the legal framework within which it operates, it became clear...

There has never been a better time to start a company. a16z is excited to announce our new $400M seed fund.

Part of succeeding in venture, and certainly in crypto, is being willing to take risks for something that you believe in deeply. Arianna has this trait in spades. After learning about crypto in the context of the hyperin...

Since we raised the first a16z Growth Fund in 2019, our aim remains to partner with founders of companies in large markets, with ambitions to become global leaders, and arm them with resources and access to a16z networks...

On behalf of the entire a16z team, I am thrilled to welcome David Haber as our newest general partner. I am equally thrilled to say he will be based in New York City, our first full-time GP in Manhattan. As software cont...

We believe that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto. We are radically optimistic about crypto’s potential to restore trust and enable new kinds of governance where communities collectively make...

When we first met Chris Lyons eight years ago, he did not have the experience that most venture capital firms were looking for: early college days as a Cheesecake Factory server and Sound Engineer for So So Def, to launc...

Today we are excited to announce that we are promoting Ali Yahya to General Partner, focusing with me and Katie on crypto.

Crypto protocols are meant to be governed by decentralized communities of stakeholders. Not because it’s more efficient, or important for ideological reasons, but because it’s necessary to unlock their core value proposi...

Welcome, Sriram Krishnan, our newest general partner, to Andreessen Horowitz!

Today we are excited to announce the closing of two new funds, bringing our total assets under management to nearly $16.5 billion. While many things in our industry have changed since we started the firm in 2009, closing...

One of our firm’s cultural values is that we take a long-term view of relationships. That’s why we are able to announce our newest operating partner on the crypto team, Anthony Albanese, who will be joining us from the N...

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Investments made in internet technologies over the last several decades have given rise to products and services used everyday by billions of people, including messaging, video conferencing, ecommerce and everything in b...

Four years ago, when we launched our first bio fund, the idea that software would make an impact in drug discovery sounded like science fiction; the idea it could transform the patient experience in healthcare a fool’s e...

I first met Vineeta fifteen years ago. She was then an undergrad in one of the most challenging graduate-level classes at Stanford—Chem 275, Advanced Statistical Mechanics. Students dreaded this famously difficult class,...

As the days grow shorter and the weather gets colder, what's better than curling up inside with a good book? So, we've compiled our Winter Reading List -- our biannual recommendations of what to read (you can see the sum...

Almost every new enterprise software company today is a SaaS company, so when we started our search for a new general partner to join our enterprise team, we knew it had to be someone who would bring tremendous expertise...

Last month we announced a16z Crypto Startup School — a part-time, seven-week educational program that will run from February 21 - April 3, 2020. Today, we are excited to share a list of instructors that will be featured...

This week, MakerDAO's MKR token holders will cast a vote to determine the parameters of MakerDAO's most ambitious upgrade yet. MakerDAO’s first stablecoin, which is backed only by Ethereum, will be replaced by Multi-Coll...

Historically, new models of computing have tended to emerge every 10–15 years: mainframes in the 60s, PCs in the late 70s, the internet in the early 90s, and smartphones in the 2000s. Today, a number of exciting new comp...

Healthcare is a deeply complex system with a large surface area. This is why we look for technical founders with deep domain expertise who have traversed the idea maze. And just like our founders, we, as investors and bo...

On behalf of the whole a16z team, I am thrilled to welcome Anish Acharya as our newest General Partner.

We're a culture of readers here at a16z, and have shared lots of what we're reading already -- but we also love entertainment! And while we've sometimes mentioned our favorites on various podcasts or Twitter, here, for t...

About 18 months ago, I sat down over a holiday and reflected on the many conversations I’d had over the years with friends, aspiring entrepreneurs, start-up employees and students about venture capital and entrepreneursh...

We started Andreessen Horowitz a decade ago with the goal of partnering with great founders by investing across all stages of the company lifecycle -- from seed through late stage.

We’ve been a multi-stage venture firm since our founding in 2009. And over the past nearly ten years, we’ve been lucky enough to invest in a variety of companies at different stages of development -- from seed through la...

Building a big business is a long journey, and inevitably there are some serious low periods mixed in with the highs. When Marc and Ben first met David Ulevitch in 2009, his company OpenDNS was in one of those low period...

Entrepreneurship and venture capital are both about the art of never giving up, while relentlessly adapting to conditions on the field.

I was just a little girl

Here's our bi-annual list of what we're reading, 48 books not including repeats -- which, incidentally, this year ranged from more recent true stories (Theranos to Thiel/Gawker/Hulk) to more far off fiction (The Three-Bo...

How many of them could've did it with finesse?

“I’m a fuckin’ genius, Jimmy Neutron”

As history has shown, innovation in biology is really hard. Long timelines and expensive, unexpected failures are hallmarks of the biopharmaceutical and diagnostics industry. Software has been attempting to disrupt the i...

It's no secret that a16z is full of avid readers -- our winter list included everything from Nike entrepreneur Phil Knight's memoir and two Hamilton tributes to musings on Russian high finance and internet security alike...

We at Andreessen Horowitz believe in the power of networks. In fact, most of our team members are not investors, but rather operators who spend all of their time building external relationships with important partners an...

If you didn’t know it already, we love reading and we love books -- in our offices, in our tweetstreams; on our podcast, in our newsletters; in our house, with a mouse, here or there... we just love them everywhere.

We are very excited to announce the closing of Andreessen Horowitz Fund V, a $1.5 billion venture capital fund through which we’ll continue to invest in seed, early-stage, and mid-stage-growth tech companies.

Today I am delighted to announce that Martin Casado is joining Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner!

Like many people, over the course of my career I’ve struggled to find the right balance between work and the rest of my life, and, despite my best intentions, too often my family has gotten shortchanged. I’ve now reached...

On behalf of the a16z team, I am excited to welcome Alex Rampell as our newest General Partner!

Editor’s Note: Ted Ullyot recently joined Andreessen Horowitz to head up its first-ever operating group for policy and regulatory affairs.

Boris Wertz is one of those people who seem to be everywhere all the time. Based in Vancouver, B.C., Wertz’s early-stage fund Version One Ventures is a fixture in the Pacific Northwest. But you would be wrong if you pegg...

BY SCOTT KUPOR

People often ask me why I feature Hip Hop so much in my blog posts. In the past, I have given short and incomplete answers, but here is the full story.

I will donate all of my proceeds from The Hard Thing About Hard Things to American Jewish World Service to support their efforts to help women fight for their basic rights throughout the world. Since there are many impo...

It ain’t what you know, it’s what you feel

I done kept it real from the jump

This is a guest post by Margit Wennmachers, partner at Andreessen Horowitz.