Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz

Finance

Launch House Raises $12M Series A for New Age Hacker Houses

The round was led by a16z and also included notable investors Michael Ovitz, Mike Dudas and Ryan Sean Adams.

(Launch House)

Opinion

DeSo Wants Your Seed Phrase. Let Them Come and Take It

Private key security is a fundamental building block of Web 3. One project seems a little too eager to compromise.

Sterling Hayden (left) as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper and Peter Sellers as Captain Lionel Mandrake in the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." (John Springer Collection/Getty Images)

Policy

A16z Publishes Web 3 Policy Proposal for World Leaders

The venture capital firm has already spoken with “key leaders on every populated continent,” according to a16z’s Global Head of Policy Tomicah Tillemann.

A16z Global Head of Policy Tomicah Tillemann (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Layer 2

Most Influential: Katie Haun

The a16z partner’s pedigree and gravitas as a former federal prosecutor will likely become ever-more important in the year ahead as a showdown brews between regulators and industry stakeholders.

(Sasha Katz/CoinDesk)

Finance

NFT Music Platform Royal Closes $55M Funding Round Led by A16z

Electronic music performers The Chainsmokers and the rapper Nas also provided funding, which comes less than three months after the Justin “3LAU” Blau venture closed a $16 million round.

Justin Blau is launching Royal Markets with some high-profile backers. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Billboard Magazine)

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Leads $50M Funding Round for Matter Labs

Matter Labs will use the funding to expand its scientific and engineering teams and finance its business growth.

andreessen

Videos

a16z Exec Explains Firm's Vision on Web 3 as Facebook Renames Itself 'Meta'

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)'s Tomicah Tillemann shares insights into the firm's Web 3 policy framework titled "We Deserve a Better Internet" and the challenges of getting U.S. lawmakers to embrace Web 3. ​This comes as Facebook has renamed itself "Meta," raising the potential threat of big centralized companies controlling the decentralized internet of the future. Plus, his views on CBDCs and stablecoins.

Recent Videos

Finance

‘Crypto AWS’ Alchemy Hits $3.5B Valuation in $250M Round Led by A16z

The venture giant invests in the kinds of companies Alchemy has called clients for years.

Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan

Finance

A16z Leads $7.5M Funding Round in NFT Toy Firm OnChain Studios

The company will soon launch Cryptoys, NFT-based interactive digital toys that consumers can buy, play with, collect and sell.

(Unsplash-Xavi Cabrera)

Markets

Andreessen Horowitz Doubles Down on Crypto Investments With New $515M Fund

Andressen Horowitz pointed to next-generation payments, decentralized finance, new monetization models and Web3 as use cases it would look into for its new $515 million fund.

Marc Andreessen, a16z co-founder (Joi/Wikimedia Commons)