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Brex’s compliance head has left the fintech startup to join Andreessen Horowitz as a partner
Ali Rathod-Papier has stepped down from her role as global head of compliance at corporate card expense management startup Brex to join venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as a partner…
a16z-backed ZeroMark wants to give soldiers guns that don’t miss against drones
The product, which ZeroMark calls a “fire control system,” has two components: a small computer that has sensors, like lidar and electro-optical, and a motorized buttstock.
Valar Labs debuts AI-powered cancer care prediction tool and secures $22M
Biotech startup Valar Labs has built a tool that accurately predicts certain treatment outcomes, potentially saving precious time for patients.
a16z’s American Dynamism team launches program to introduce technical minds to VC
Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism fund has established a new fellowship program aimed at introducing top engineers and technologists to venture investing, a move that could help the firm identify less…
a16z promotes Jennifer Li to help lead the new $1.25B Infrastructure fund
Silicon Valley powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just promoted Jennifer Li to general partner to help lead infrastructure investments.
Mahbod Moghadam, who rose to fame as the co-founder of Genius, has died
Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, as well as an angel investor, passed away last month at age 41 owing to “complications from a recurring brain…
Upstash’s serverless data platform hits ARR of $1M just two years after seed funding
Upstash announced a $1.9 million seed round almost exactly two years ago, and an idea for building a serverless data platform for data-intensive applications built with Redis and Kafka. That…
Quora is back at it, raising funding for the first time in nearly seven years. The questions and answers website nabbed $75 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which will be…
a16z will give literally any politician money if they help deregulate tech
Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz has announced its intent to begin lobbying the U.S. government, and their plan is as tone-deaf and obtuse as this summer’s dreadful “Techno-Optimist Manifesto.” Essentially,…
a16z-backed Apex Space opens new factory to ramp satellite bus production
When Apex Space emerged from stealth last October, the company had a provocative goal: remove the “new bottleneck” hitting the space industry by manufacturing satellite buses at scale. To get…
Companies are increasingly curious about AI and the ways in which it can be used to (potentially) boost productivity. But they’re also wary of the risks. In a recent Workday…
Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round
French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round. The company has raised €385 million, or $415 million at today’s exchange rate — according to…
EarnBetter applies generative AI to writing resumes and cover letters
Will AI make resumes and cover letters even less useful than they were before? Quite possibly. Case in point, EarnBetter, a startup founded by former Credit Karma employees, is developing…
Israeli biotech startup Mana.bio launches AI-fueled programmable drug therapy
Israeli biotech startup Mana.bio has been planning to launch its programmable drug treatment solution for months, and decided to forge ahead in spite of the attacks that happened this past…
a16z-backed Castelion wants to mass-produce defense hardware, starting with hypersonics
One builds weapons in the hope that they are not used. Thus goes the central premise of deterrence theory, which says it is the credible threat of aggression — not…
EV boat startup Arc wades into watersports with $70M in fresh funding
Arc is making a splash with investors as it wraps up deliveries of its limited edition $300,000 electric boat and eyes its next target: watersports. And, specifically the kind that…
Bastion launched a suite of products so companies can integrate web3 infrastructure into their existing enterprise technologies.
a16z’s Arianna Simpson believes crypto will be just fine, thank you for asking
If the crypto investment craze of 2021 could be defined with one investor name, that would be Andreessen Horowitz — or a16z for short. The well-known VC firm has raised over…
Lightup wants to shine a light on data quality with $9M Series A
We all know how important data quality is. That’s where the timeless phrase “Garbage in, garbage out” came from. As the pace of data creation accelerates, and it gets used…
Fund of funds are starting to play a different role for venture LPs
Fund of funds are designed to give funds access. Newer FoF strategies can help LPs get access to emerging managers.
No SSN, no problem, says Maza, a fintech startup aimed at undocumented immigrants
There are many fintech companies offering digital banking services to a variety of demographics, but one segment of the population has been underserved more than others: the undocumented immigrant.
Andreessen Horowitz, Shield Capital back satellite bus manufacturing startup Apex Space
Satellite bus manufacturing startup Apex Space has closed a $16 million Series A round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and new investor Shield Capital as it prepares for its first demonstration…
Andreessen Horowitz creates ‘Perennial’ evergreen fund amid market slowdown
Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture firm known for being an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies (including Airbnb, Coinbase and GitHub), has created a new fund to…
Fidelity, the lead investor in Reddit’s most recent funding round in 2021, has slashed the estimated worth of its equity stake in the popular social media platform by 41% since…
This is not the first time that we’ve seen funds try to go earlier in the investing world. Will the a16z effort pay off? Will it be ultimately good for…
AI, specifically generative AI, has the potential to transform healthcare. At least, that’s the sales pitch from Hippocratic AI, which emerged from stealth today with a whopping $50 million in…
Senate Banking chair urges FDIC to look into Tellus, a fintech backed by Andreessen Horowitz
Tellus, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed fintech company that claims it can offer people higher yields on their savings balances by using that money to fund certain U.S. single-family-home loans, is under…
Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raises $100M
Investors continue to pump money into generative AI tech. Case in point, Replit, an IDE startup developing a code-generating AI-powered tool called Ghostwriter, this week raised nearly $100 million ($97.4…
Pinecone drops $100M investment on $750M valuation, as vector database demand grows
When Pinecone launched a vector database aimed at data scientists in 2021, it was probably ahead of its time. But as the use cases began to take shape last year,…
Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite US strains
Andreessen Horowitz is openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains. According to Bloomberg, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz appeared onstage with WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann to talk for…
