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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Employees: 51-200
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A; Series B; Series C; Series D; Series E; Series G; IPO; Grant
Portfolio 521
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 25.06.2024 | K-ID | k-id.com | $45M | Singapore |
| 18.06.2024 | Decagon | decagon.ai | $35M | - |
| 12.03.2024 | Milu Healt... | miluhealth.com | $4.8M | United Sta... |
| 13.10.2023 | Aerodome | aerodome.com | $28M | - |
| 29.08.2023 | Ideogram A... | ideogram.ai | $96.5M | - |
| 29.08.2023 | Regrello | regrello.com | - | United Sta... |
| 29.08.2023 | Maza | withmaza.com | - | Brazil, Sã... |
| 29.08.2023 | Black Ore | blackore.ai | $60M | Anguilla |
| 21.08.2023 | Genesis Th... | genesistherapeutics.ai | $256.1M | United Sta... |
| 09.08.2023 | Zibra AI | zibra.ai | $500K | - |
| 05.08.2023 | Topkey | topkey.io | - | United Sta... |
| 02.08.2023 | Lightup Da... | lightup.ai | $9M | United Sta... |
| 21.07.2023 | Tilt | tilt.com | $30M | United Sta... |
| 21.07.2023 | Altitude L... | altitudelearning.com | - | - |
| 21.07.2023 | Tmunity Th... | tmunity.com | $175M | United Sta... |
| 20.06.2023 | Eleven Lab... | elevenlabs.io | $101.15M | United Kin... |
| 12.06.2023 | Gensyn | gensyn.ai | $55.91M | United Kin... |
| 11.06.2023 | ZeroMark | zeromark.com | $7M | United Sta... |
| 26.04.2023 | StartPlayi... | startplaying.games | $6.5M | United Sta... |
| 26.04.2023 | Kadabra In... | kadabrainc.com | - | Israel, Te... |
| 26.04.2023 | Neural Mag... | neuralmagic.com | $45M | United Sta... |
| 26.04.2023 | Opendoor | opendoor.com | $1.48B | United Sta... |
| 26.04.2023 | Grep.ly | grep.ly | - | - |
| 26.04.2023 | Datanomik | datanomik.com | $6M | Uruguay, M... |
| 26.04.2023 | Axoni | axoni.com | $139M | United Sta... |
| 21.04.2023 | LootRush | lootrush.com | - | - |
| 21.04.2023 | Core Loop | coreloop.gg | - | United Kin... |
| 18.04.2023 | Supermove | supermove.com | $18M | United Sta... |
| 18.04.2023 | Prisms of ... | prismsvr.com | $16.75M | United Sta... |
| 18.04.2023 | Inventa | inventa.shop | - | Brazil, Sã... |
| 18.04.2023 | Prologue | prologue.xyz | - | United Sta... |
| 18.04.2023 | Delphix | delphix.com | $108M | Brazil, Sã... |
| 18.04.2023 | Ventus The... | ventustx.com | $300M | - |
| 16.04.2023 | Ambience | ambiencehealthcare.com | $70M | United Sta... |
| 14.04.2023 | Keep Finan... | keepfinancial.com | $9M | United Sta... |
| 14.04.2023 | Avalanche | avax.com | - | - |
| 14.04.2023 | Locale (YC... | shoplocale.com | - | United Sta... |
| 23.03.2023 | Character ... | character.ai | $150.5M | Anguilla, |
| 23.03.2023 | Coactive A... | coactive.ai | $44M | United Sta... |
| 22.03.2023 | Clerk | clerk.com | $45M | United Sta... |
| 03.03.2023 | Svix | svix.com | $2.6M | - |
| 01.03.2023 | ModernFi | modernfi.com | $23.2M | United Sta... |
| 24.02.2023 | Snapser | snapser.com | $2.6M | United Sta... |
| 24.02.2023 | RLY Networ... | rly.network | - | Switzerlan... |
| 17.02.2023 | Latitud | latitud.com | $11.5M | Brazil, Sã... |
| 17.02.2023 | EarnBetter | earnbetter.com | - | United Sta... |
| 16.02.2023 | Thatch | thatch.ai | $6M | United Sta... |
| 15.02.2023 | Alongside | alongside.xyz | $11M | United Sta... |
| 14.02.2023 | Filmhub | filmhub.com | - | United Sta... |
| 11.02.2023 | Voldex | voldex.com | $3M | Canada, Qu... |
| 11.02.2023 | Champions ... | champions.io | - | - |
| 08.02.2023 | Seidr | seidr.com | - | Sweden, St... |
| 08.02.2023 | Macro | macro.com | $9.3M | United Sta... |
| 25.01.2023 | Apex | apexspace.com | $111M | United Sta... |
| 25.01.2023 | Synonym | synonym.bio | - | United Sta... |
| 24.01.2023 | Clerk.com | clerk.dev | $21.1M | United Sta... |
| 06.01.2023 | Yuga Labs | yuga.com | $320M | United Sta... |
| 03.01.2023 | SpaceX | spacex.com | $7.53B | United Sta... |
| 18.11.2022 | Tellus | tellusapp.com | $26M | United Sta... |
| 17.11.2022 | Rezo Thera... | rezotx.com | $78M | United Sta... |
| 11.11.2022 | Kindred | livekindred.com | $22.75M | United Sta... |
| 02.11.2022 | Odyssey In... | odysseyinteractive.gg | $25M | Canada, On... |
| 11.10.2022 | Rye | rye.com | $14M | United Sta... |
| 11.10.2022 | Canal | shopcanal.com | - | United Sta... |
| 07.10.2022 | SCiFi Food... | scififoods.com | $22M | - |
| 20.09.2022 | Sequence | sequencehq.com | $18.89M | - |
| 15.09.2022 | Codi | codi.com | $23M | United Sta... |
| 01.09.2022 | Titan | titan.com | $58M | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | Cider | shopcider.com | - | China, Hon... |
| 31.08.2022 | Stripe | stripe.com | $8.66B | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | Capitolis | capitolis.com | $269M | United Kin... |
| 31.08.2022 | Whatnot | whatnot.com | $484M | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | CoinSwitch | coinswitch.co | $300M | India, Kar... |
| 31.08.2022 | Sleeper | sleeper.com | - | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | Sourcegrap... | sourcegraph.com | $223M | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | Carta | carta.com | $880M | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | Ultima Gen... | ultimagenomics.com | $600M | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | ClickUp | clickup.com | $535M | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | Current | current.com | $381M | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | Overwolf | overwolf.com | $198.8M | Israel, Te... |
| 31.08.2022 | Black Tech... | hopin.com | - | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | Hex | hex.tech | $101.5M | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | Crossbeam | crossbeam.com | $101M | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | Alchemy | alchemy.com | $280M | United Sta... |
| 31.08.2022 | vanitybloc... | opensea.io | $425.05M | United Kin... |
| 30.08.2022 | Greenlight | greenlightcard.com | $552.5M | United Sta... |
| 30.08.2022 | Greenlight | greenlight.com | $260M | South Afri... |
| 23.08.2022 | Ready Play... | readyplayer.me | $69M | Estonia, T... |
| 16.08.2022 | Flow | flow.life | $350M | United Sta... |
| 04.08.2022 | Halliday | halliday.xyz | $6M | Philippine... |
| 02.08.2022 | IDRx | idrx.com | $122M | United Sta... |
| 02.08.2022 | Gym Class ... | gymclassvr.com | $8M | United Sta... |
| 26.07.2022 | Nash | usenash.com | $20M | - |
| 20.07.2022 | Cartograph... | cartography.bio | $57M | United Sta... |
| 20.07.2022 | Camp4 | camp4tx.com | $175M | United Sta... |
| 12.07.2022 | Morpho | morpho.xyz | $68M | France, Il... |
| 29.06.2022 | Tomorrow H... | tomorrowhealth.com | $92.5M | - |
| 28.06.2022 | Linera | linera.io | $12M | - |
| 10.06.2022 | Flowcarbon | flowcarbon.com | $70M | United Sta... |
| 19.05.2022 | Belong | belonghome.com | $80M | United Sta... |
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| - | Alex | Immerman | - | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Mark | Cranney | - | linkedin.c... | - | m******y@a... | - |
| - | Jay | Rughani | - | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Jonathan | Lai | - | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Jeff | Benson | - | linkedin.c... | - | j**f@a16z.... | - |
| - | Sarah | Wang | - | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
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| - | Scott | T. | - | linkedin.c... | - | s***t@a16z... | - |
| - | Angela | Strange | - | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Ellen | Lai Tunoa | Talent Par... | linkedin.c... | - | e***n@a16z... | - |
| - | Andrew | Chen | - | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Peter | Levine | General Pa... | linkedin.c... | - | p***r@a16z... | - |
| - | Vijay | Pande | - | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
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News 480
| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.08.2023 | BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI | “Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents, each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can’t figure it out. One thing I ... |
| 30.08.2023 | Supporting the Open Source AI Community | We believe artificial intelligence has the power to save the world—and that a thriving open source ecosystem is essential to building this future. Thankfully, the open source ecosystem is starting to develop, and we are now seeing open sou... |
| 29.08.2023 | What’s Next for FedNow (August 2023 Fintech Newsletter) | TABLE OF CONTENTSFedNow finally launched. Now what? After four years of development (and 10 years since its announcement), the Fed launched FedNow this past July with 41 banks, including JPMorgan Chase, BNY Mellon, and U.S. Bancorp, and 15... |
| 22.08.2023 | Why Do Investors Care So Much About LTV:CAC? | To put it simply: higher LTV:CAC → higher margins → higher valuation. Investors often use 3x LTV:CAC as a rough benchmark of a consumer company’s financial health. If your customer lifetime value (LTV) is 3 or more times your customer acqu... |
| 11.08.2023 | The Race to Capture Value: Cloud Lessons for the AI Era | When a platform shift reshapes the technology landscape, who wins? From mainframes to PCs, desktop to mobile, unnetworked to internet, and on-prem to cloud and SaaS, technical progress in software tends to follow Schumpeter’s creative dest... |
| 03.08.2023 | The Economic Case for Generative AI and Foundation Models | Artificial intelligence has been a staple in computer science since the 1950s. Over the years, it has also made a lot of money for the businesses able to deploy it effectively. However, as we explained in a recent op-ed piece for the Wall S... |
| 02.08.2023 | Where Will AI Have the Biggest Impact? Healthcare. | Recently, we received an email about a healthcare panel entitled “Using AI with Modern Fax Capabilities to Reduce Administrative Burden.” We immediately thought, “wait, what?” But yes, we had read it correctly: There was a panel on integr... |
| 01.08.2023 | Investing in Socket | Open source is the bedrock upon which all modern applications are built. But here’s the elephant in the room: There is a huge attack surface hidden within this seemingly solid foundation, and the proliferation of open source usage has opene... |
| 01.08.2023 | Announcing SPEEDRUN 2024: Accelerating Games x Tech | SPEEDRUN began with a simple question: how can we support the best gaming founders at the earliest stages of their journey? Our answer was to craft a bespoke accelerator for the gaming industry. We invested in all 32 companies from our firs... |
| 28.07.2023 | More Countries, More Problems: Selling AI Products Around the World Is Still Too Hard | A dynamic new wave of digital-first companies has emerged, driven by a significant decrease in the cost of building a minimal viable venture and further propelled by recent advancements in Generative AI. Founders can now quickly build chatb... |
| 27.07.2023 | Money on Autopilot: The Future of AI x Personal Finance | Seventy-seven percent of Americans report feeling financially stressed, making consumer personal finance an attractive market for new builders. And yet, the space is home to dozens (if not hundreds) of startups that have helped their users,... |
| 25.07.2023 | Anjney Midha | We’re thrilled to announce Anjney will be joining a16z as a general partner to lead our growing AI efforts. It’s clear we are at the start of a new technology supercycle driven by foundation models and generative AI. But very few people un... |
| 20.07.2023 | AI, Efficiency, and All Things Fintech in 2023: A Q&A with the CEOs of Adyen, SoFi, and Wise | From left to right: SoFi CEO Anthony Noto, Wise CEO Kristo Käärmann, Adyen co-CEO Pieter van der Does, and a16z Partner Alex Immerman. During a recent Connect/Fintech event hosted by a16z, Pieter van der Does, co-founder and co-CEO of lead... |
| 20.07.2023 | Greg Verdine, Bio + Health Venture Partner | As we strive to find and support the most ambitious life sciences founders, we also work to connect these founders with exceptional advisors who have traveled the journey before. Builders who have stood up impactful platform biotech compani... |
| 19.07.2023 | The NeverEnding Game: How AI Will Create a New Category of Games | The early discourse on the Generative AI Revolution in Games has largely focused on how AI tools can make game creators more efficient – enabling games to be built faster and at greater scale than before. While true, we believe the largest ... |
| 13.07.2023 | Washington: Will You Let AI Make Us Healthier? | The world is amidst an AI-driven industrial revolution. As a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen recently wrote, AI will save the world. The United Kingdom just staked its claim on the AI frontier, challenging US policymakers to reaffirm America’s... |
| 13.07.2023 | Summer Reading List (July 2023 Fintech Newsletter) | Summer’s here, bringing long days, warm nights, and hopefully some downtime to catch up on relaxing reads or learn something new. If you’re looking for something fun, or a bit more business-minded, to read, watch, or listen to, a16z’s Finte... |
| 11.07.2023 | Customer Success Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It. | In the late 2010s, customer success (CS) gained a lot of traction as an emerging category, and many companies created big CS teams made up of customer success managers (CSMs), renewals, support, and services. But as tougher macro climates i... |
| 23.06.2023 | The B2B Fintech Pricing Journey | Pricing a new product or service can be confusing, and founders—be they first-timers who’ve just shipped their MVP or veterans whose products have been in market for years—are often unsure how much time they should be spending on pricing st... |
| 23.06.2023 | The Next Token of Progress: 4 Unlocks on the Generative AI Horizon | Large language models (LLMs) have taken the tech industry by storm, powering experiences that can only be described as magical—from writing a week’s worth of code in seconds to generating conversations that feel even more empathetic than th... |
| 22.06.2023 | Investing in Captions | As an investor, one of the most rewarding aspects of my job is believing in and standing alongside great founders. Lucky for me, Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill were the first cofounders I invested in after joining a16z in 2020. Since the... |
| 22.06.2023 | Investing in Apex | Last year, 180 launches successfully reached orbit—a record year for space. SpaceX led the way with 61 launches, and the People’s Republic of China definitively replaced Russia as the world’s No. 2 space power. Without question, we have ent... |
| 22.06.2023 | It’s Not a Computer, It’s a Companion! | “The great thing about AI is that it is constantly evolving. One day it will be better than a real [girlfriend]. One day, the real one will be the inferior choice.” This quote is from one of more than 20,000 users who joined the early comm... |
| 21.06.2023 | The Getting Started with AI Stack for JavaScript | It’s hard to understand new software infrastructure technologies without using them. At least, that’s what the a16z infrastructure team has found— and because so many of us started our careers as programmers, we’re often learning by doing. ... |
| 21.06.2023 | AI at the Intersection: The a16z Investment Thesis on AI in Bio + Health | A Tale of Two Exponentials Harnessing Moore to combat Eroom Computers today are roughly 1000x more powerful, at the same price, than those a decade ago. And they are roughly a million times more powerful than twenty years ago. This dramati... |
| 20.06.2023 | Investing in ElevenLabs | https://a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Justine-New-Voiceover.mp3 Listen to Bryan Kim read this blog post, with voice generated by ElevenLabs. The human voice is one of our most primal, personal and expressive forms of communication. ... |
| 19.06.2023 | A Market Map of Brazil’s Credit Landscape | As a continuation of our debt capital market pieces, we decided to spend some time studying the credit landscape in Brazil. In recent years, we’ve noticed a significant increase in the number of funds, banks, and startups offering debt fin... |
| 14.06.2023 | The First Principles of Executive Hiring | How do you scale from a scrappy, early-stage startup with a handful of employees to a growth-stage company with hundreds, or even thousands, of employees? Hire the right executives. These first principles lay the foundation for making those... |
| 14.06.2023 | The Hard Things About Scaling: Executive Hiring | The holy grail of company building is finding product-market fit. But what most people don’t tell you is that once you’ve found it, you then need to ramp up your business and operations exponentially to continue delivering value to customer... |
| 14.06.2023 | The Hiring Process | Any time an executive takes a new job, it’s a big change—for the company and for the executive. For a CEO, executive hires are among the highest-stakes hires you will make, with implications for your organizational design, leadership team d... |
| 14.06.2023 | Executive Compensation | Your company’s compensation philosophy, process, and bands determine how most of your hires are compensated. Executive hires, however, are a little different. You’re often dealing with heated competition for a small pool of talent. Competit... |
| 11.06.2023 | Expanding to the UK | Over the last year it has become clear that blockchains and the software movement around them — usually called crypto or web3 — can only succeed with a clear regulatory regime that provides an open pathway for startups while also protecting... |
| 08.06.2023 | Investing in Pomelo Care | “In the United States of America, in the 21st century, being pregnant and giving birth should not carry such great risk. But the truth is…before, during, and after childbirth, women in our nation are dying at a higher rate than any other de... |
| 06.06.2023 | Why AI Will Save the World | The era of Artificial Intelligence is here, and boy are people freaking out. Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it. First, a short description of what AI is: The application ... |
| 05.06.2023 | The 2022 Effect: A Benchmarking Bulletin | When we released a16z Growth’s Guide to Growth Metrics at the end of last year, one of the biggest requests we received from founders was more information about how companies in our dataset were affected by 2022 macroeconomic conditions. We... |
| 02.06.2023 | How To Democratize Healthcare: AI Gives Everyone The Very Best Doctor | Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in May 2018. The greatest problem of health care in United States–the world leader in health inequality–isn’t actually about the quality of care. The greatest problem we have is access to ... |
| 31.05.2023 | Generative AI is Coming for Insurance (May 2023 Fintech Newsletter) | TABLE OF CONTENTS Generative AI is Coming for Insurance Because underwriting, selling, and servicing rely so heavily on humans processing large quantities of written or verbal communication, existing tools have struggled to properly autom... |
| 25.05.2023 | AI Canon A gentle introduction… Foundational learning: neural networks, backpropagation, and embeddings Tech deep dive: understanding transformers and large models Practical guides to building wit... | Source: Midjourney Research in artificial intelligence is increasing at an exponential rate. It’s difficult for AI experts to keep up with everything new being published, and even harder for beginners to know where to start. So, in this p... |
| 24.05.2023 | Full-Stack Startups in American Dynamism | The full-stack startup, as previously written about by our partner Chris Dixon, is an approach taken by some startups to bypass incumbents by building a complete, end-to-end product or service. This approach is in contrast to the traditiona... |
| 23.05.2023 | Aligning Founder Superpowers with Product Cycles | Watching the generative AI space shape up over the past several months has reaffirmed my belief that, as product cycles mature, different types of builders have leverage at different moments in the cycle. And, at this early stage in generat... |
| 23.05.2023 | Using Generative AI to Unlock Probabilistic Products | One remarkable thing about the invention of generative AI is that it’s one of the first examples of a probabilistic computer that produces outputs that are varied and non-deterministic. Some, who expect these systems to behave like traditio... |
| 22.05.2023 | The Rise of the Composable CDP | In our popular post on emerging data infrastructure, we highlighted technologies that have led to a new wave of data-stack investments. These stacks represent the culmination of a number of trends in the industry, including the migration fr... |
| 19.05.2023 | A Personal Update | I was well into my career when I discovered the magical world of technology start-ups. This anecdote from Adam Lashinsky’s excellent book Inside Apple summarizes the point quite well: I have been working in this tech start-up space for alm... |
| 18.05.2023 | Bat Out of Hell: Identifying Your Durable Advantage in Fintech | Imagine you are the founder of a fintech company that’s identified a massive broken market. As I’ve previously written about, to build your product and identify potential market opportunities, you’ve likely begun buying growth through paid ... |
| 17.05.2023 | The New Industrial Revolution: Bio x AI | Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in October 2021. We continue to be bullish on the power of AI to transform bio + health—especially as AI continues to drive the very industrial bio complex Vijay discusses below. We’ve now... |
| 16.05.2023 | 5 Founders on the Future of Data | It’s well understood that artificial intelligence is advancing like mad right now. What’s less appreciated is the role that data and infrastructure continue to play in these advances — whether that’s adding new data sources to train better ... |
| 16.05.2023 | Investing in Hippocratic AI | “Solving consumer engagement is worth $1 trillion to our organization,” said a health plan executive to me one day. He was obviously being a bit sensationalist with the magnitude of the number, but it’s been a common thread in strategic dia... |
| 15.05.2023 | Level Up: Welcoming our New Cultural Leadership Fund Nonprofit Partners | Over the last 5 years, the work of the Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) has been growing and evolving to increase access to career paths and leadership roles in technology as an important gateway to wealth generation for the Black community. ... |
| 10.05.2023 | Enterprise Startups: Advice on Hiring, Firing, Scaling, and Selling | A16z recently brought together a group of early-stage CEOs to talk shop and learn from their peers who have successfully navigated the journey from scrappy startup into large growth-stage or even public companies. The event featured a serie... |
| 09.05.2023 | It’s Time to Build For America: Announcing Our $500M+ Commitment to Companies Building in American Dynamism | We formalized our American Dynamism practice a little more than a year ago to galvanize support for solving our country’s most vexing challenges with an entrepreneurial and technology-first approach. We’ve been blown away at how this moveme... |
| 04.05.2023 | Embracing the Future: How Chatbots Can Become Great Companions | “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. But being understood by someone is everything.” – Lao Tzu Psychologist Abraham Maslow famously posited that human behavior can be classified ... |
| 03.05.2023 | Field Notes: Digital Branding with Susan Plagemann | This is Field Notes, a video podcast series by a16z that explores the business models and behaviors that are changing consumer technology. In this episode, host Connie Chan talks to Susan Plagemann, the president of WME Fashion and a veter... |
| 02.05.2023 | Channel Partnerships in Healthcare: A Founder’s Playbook | Over the last decade, many digital health companies have struggled to achieve escape velocity, not because their products and services weren’t transformative, but because they failed to find a sustainable path for distribution. The good ne... |
| 02.05.2023 | The 16 Commandments of Raising Equity in a Challenging Market | Between inflation, rising interest rates, geopolitical tensions, and growing recession concerns, 2022 was a year of reckoning for both public and private markets. Since the beginning of 2022, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has declined 23%... |
| 01.05.2023 | Beyond Payments for High-Risk Industries | Today, most merchants looking to sell a product or service online can quickly get their payment system live with the help of a modern checkout platform. If the merchant works in a “high-risk” industry like games, sports betting, telehealth,... |
| 28.04.2023 | How the U.S. Can Rewire the Pentagon for a New Era | We are in the early stages of a generational defense cycle that requires unconventional thinking and tools. The invasion of Ukraine highlights this evolution: comparatively low-cost weapons, from drones to precision artillery, are leveragin... |
| 27.04.2023 | Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute | Source: Midjourney The generative AI boom is compute-bound. It has the unique property that adding more compute directly results in a better product. Usually, R&D investment is more directly tied to how valuable a product was, and that... |
| 27.04.2023 | Both Sides of the Partnership: Executing Lyft’s “Impossible” Ask | If business partnerships are a high-stakes form of matchmaking, then the strategic partnership between Lyft and the automotive services giant Holman was something of an odd-couple proposition at the start. When first broached five years ago... |
| 27.04.2023 | Investing in Pinecone | With the inflection of large language models (LLMs), we’re witnessing a paradigm shift in software development and the computing industry as a whole. AI is happening and a new stack is forming before our eyes. It’s like the Internet all ove... |
| 26.04.2023 | Field Notes: Live-Selling and AI Styling with Tracy Sun | This is Field Notes, a new video podcast series by a16z that explores the business models and behaviors that are changing consumer technology. In this episode, host Connie Chan talks to Tracy Sun, the cofounder and SVP of Seller Experience... |
| 26.04.2023 | Investing in Orbital Therapeutics | “The fact that proteins are not synthesized directly on genes demands the existence of an intermediate information carrier…which receives genetic information from the gene in the form of an unstable intermediate…a special type of RNA molecu... |
| 24.04.2023 | Investing in Radiant | Most people don’t know that nuclear energy — a clean, carbon-free energy source — accounts for 20% of electricity in the United States and over half of its carbon-free electricity. However, while large nuclear reactors are often (erroneousl... |
| 20.04.2023 | Hey Tech, It’s Time To Build. In Healthcare. | In the past few months, the founders of Instacart, Spotify, and Coinbase have all started new healthcare companies. This may seem odd to some–why are these seasoned tech founders jumping into tech-driven healthcare? In 2013, Marc Andreesse... |
| 19.04.2023 | Financial Services Will Embrace Generative AI Faster Than You Think | Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been used in the financial services industry for more than a decade, enabling enhancements that range from better underwriting to improved foundational fraud scores. Generative AI via large ... |
| 19.04.2023 | Field Notes: Investing in Global Tech with Chris Schroeder | This is Field Notes, a new video podcast series by a16z that explores the business models and behaviors that are changing consumer technology. Subscribe to the a16z channel on YouTube so you don’t miss an episode. In this episode, host Con... |
| 14.04.2023 | Field Notes: Breakout Strategies with Deb Liu (Part 2) | This is Field Notes, a new video podcast series by a16z that explores the business models and behaviors that are changing consumer technology. Subscribe to the a16z channel on YouTube so you don’t miss an episode. This is part 2 of host Co... |
| 14.04.2023 | The Modern Transactional Stack | Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Because a steadfast database is generally the ultimate enforcement point for correctness in a messy, distributed world. Without them we’d overpay... |
| 13.04.2023 | Space Launch: Who, What, and Where We’re Going | For a full landscape of the commercial space market, see our previous post: Space: A Market Map. Few achievements illustrate American Dynamism in a more visceral way than a rocket blasting off. It is, in a sense, controlled chaos — the cul... |
| 12.04.2023 | Investing in Function Oncology | “The power in tailored therapeutics is for us to say more clearly to payers, providers, and patients: ‘this drug is not for everyone, but it is for you.’ That is exceedingly powerful.” —John C. Lechleiter, Ph.D., former Chairman, President,... |
| 12.04.2023 | Field Notes: Marketplace Tactics with Deb Liu (Part 1) | This is Field Notes, a new video podcast series by a16z that explores the business models and behaviors that are changing consumer technology. Subscribe to the a16z channel on YouTube so you don’t miss an episode. In this episode, host Con... |
| 07.04.2023 | Healthcare Marketplaces, Where Art Thou? | TABLE OF CONTENTS At a16z, marketplaces represent one of our favorite business models. Our annual Marketplace 100 provides insight into the latest consumer marketplace trends across industries. But we on the healthcare team have long lame... |
| 06.04.2023 | Vertical Operating Systems: One System of Record to Rule Them All | When computers were first built, each new application had to be programmed specifically for each chip. This was very complicated for developers and, as a result, the companies that created operating systems to simplify this complexity becam... |
| 30.03.2023 | For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More? | We’ve watched large language models (LLMs) become mainstream over the past few years and have studied the implementations in the context of B2B applications. Despite some enormous technological advances and the presence of LLMs in the gener... |
| 28.03.2023 | The Future of Payments is… Red? | Visa and Mastercard currently facilitate more than three-quarters of all credit card transactions in the United States, at a time when post-pandemic Americans are now using credit or debit cards for roughly 57% of all transactions (in 2016,... |
| 27.03.2023 | Healthtech: Show Your Magic | TABLE OF CONTENTS The public market situation for healthtech can seem pretty depressing. Recently IPOed healthtech stocks are underperforming the broader market, with some falling 95%+ from their IPO—meanwhile, more traditional companies l... |
| 23.03.2023 | Investing in Character.AI | The first time I tried Character.AI, it completely hijacked my husband’s birthday dinner. What had started as a party of 12 friends conversing quietly around the table quickly turned into picking Elon Musk’s brain on Mars, getting the Queen... |
| 23.03.2023 | The Future of Ecommerce: How a Product Becomes a Purchase Phase 1: Discovery Phase 2: Conversion Phase 3: Returns and Resale | General Partner Connie Chan on how leading brands are using AI and other technology to combine the serendipitous discovery of offline shopping with the infinite options of online shopping. Today, most of the Western world revolves around s... |
| 22.03.2023 | The Marketplace 100: 2022 | 2022 marks our third year releasing the Marketplace 100, a ranking of the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies. When we started this series in early 2020 (based on data from 2019), we had no way of knowing how... |
| 22.03.2023 | SPEEDRUN Your Gaming Startup | Starting a gaming company is like playing one of the most difficult video games out there. It’s an expensive and time-consuming grind with the vast majority of games never making it to launch. But what if there was a hack to build a success... |
| 22.03.2023 | The a16z Marketplace 100: 2020 | Click here for 2021 edition of the Marketplace 100. Today we introduce the Marketplace 100, a ranking of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies. Over the past few decades, marketplaces l... |
| 21.03.2023 | Investing in Coactive | Understanding what’s in an image — one of the simplest cognitive tasks for most humans — is a stubbornly difficult problem for artificial intelligence systems to solve. Over the past decade, AI models have gotten better and better at analy... |
| 21.03.2023 | Investing in CCP Games | Years before the first blockchain was created, the sci-fi space MMO EVE Online proved out many of the core principles that define web3 today. This is why we are excited to be partnering with CCP on a new project set in the EVE Universe. Con... |
| 21.03.2023 | “Adventure is out there!”: Opportunities in AI x Travel | Travel is a trillion-dollar industry stuck in the past. The last major breakthrough came in the 1990s, with the emergence of online travel agencies (OTAs) like Booking.com and Expedia to aggregate inventory. Unless you hire a travel agent, ... |
| 17.03.2023 | Space: A Market Map | In “The Space Age”, I wrote about the importance of mankind extending our reach into the stars. Moreover, I suggested that America is — and should remain — the leader in this endeavor. It was, in many ways, an appeal to the past and possibl... |
| 17.03.2023 | The Generative AI Revolution will Enable Anyone to Create Games | As the Generative AI Revolution in Games progresses, it will completely reshape User Generated Content (UGC) creating a world where anyone can build games and expanding the games market beyond what many thought was possible. In the coming y... |
| 16.03.2023 | Investing in Wingspan | The contractor payroll market is massive. Roughly one-third of U.S. workers have performed freelance work in the last year, and $1.4 trillion is paid out to contract workers annually. In many ways, contractors are the backbone of the U.S. e... |
| 07.03.2023 | Investing in Believer | There is a moment of wonder in every great game that makes you sit back, take a breath, and really appreciate what it is that you’re experiencing: stepping out into the world of Zelda, overcoming Margit for the first time in Elden Ring, stu... |
| 03.03.2023 | Do You Have Lightning In a Bottle? How to Benchmark Your Social App | When a new social app starts to “work,” it feels like magic, but often looks like a black box. What causes a product to take off, and then continue to pick up steam—to the point where millions of people are using it daily for years to come... |
| 28.02.2023 | The First Step to Replanning in a Downturn | When market conditions worsen and there’s a gap between your current revenue plan and what your sales team can deliver, you need to build a credible and realistic replan. Introducing a replan can feel like pulling the handbrake on your team... |
| 22.02.2023 | Investing in Svix | Every so often, we meet founders with unusually strong conviction about solving systems problems. They’ve often lived through the pain of bad software, diagnosed the cause of their suffering, and made it their mission to convince the world ... |
| 21.02.2023 | Investing in Replicate | It’s very rare to see a new building block emerge in computing. If aliens landed on earth and decompiled our software, every app would look roughly the same: some combination of networking, storage, and compute. The way developers consume t... |
| 15.02.2023 | Negotiating Your First Warehouse Facility: Trade-offs Across Terms | This article is the second of four installments in our new series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. Read part one on Choosing the Right Funding Structure here. In our prior installment of this series, we explored ... |
| 14.02.2023 | Doing More with Moore: Biotech’s Tech Moment | Eroom’s Law (the backwards Moore) is the often cited, and arguably inaccurate, observation that drug discovery gets slower and more expensive over time. It’s certainly a slog, but R&D efforts have yielded 378 new FDA-approved drugs betw... |
| 09.02.2023 | Welcoming the Talent x Opportunity Spring ‘23 Cohort | Since kicking off the Talent x Opportunity (TxO) Initiative, we have invested in 27 companies building products and services based on unique cultural insights. The founders we backed and continue to support have taken tremendous strides fro... |
| 09.02.2023 | Investing in Marker Learning | Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. – George Evans Getting a formal learning disability diagnosis and proper early intervention can be the most impactful event in a person’s life, as it was for the co-founde... |
| 08.02.2023 | Investing in Macro | In recent years, we’ve seen a renaissance in productivity software. To make knowledge work seamless, internal teams have largely moved off of “hard files,” toward real-time workspaces with commenting, collaboration, and notifications. And y... |
| 08.02.2023 | Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI | When OpenAI released its chatbot ChatGPT last year, proponents were quick to announce the death of various writing-related fields, such as screenwriting, computer programming, and music composition. One particular field stood out as a secto... |
| 08.02.2023 | Investing in Snapser | We are thrilled to announce that a16z Games has led the Series Seed investment in Snapser, a games backend technology company poised to become the de facto platform for games studios. Twenty years ago, game studios had to develop their own... |
| 07.02.2023 | Generative AI: The Next Consumer Platform | We’ve entered the age of generative AI. The use cases are everywhere—from writing essays to creating comics to editing films—and adoption has outpaced every consumer tech trend of the past decade. Text generator ChatGPT surpassed 1 million ... |
| 02.02.2023 | Bio Eats World: From Faculty to Founder | Top 5 Takeaways: Fundraising is a process that should be managed like any other. The decision to stay in or leave academia is a common one contemplated by academic founders—and it’s important to gauge what your individual goals are when mak... |
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| 16.08.2024 | Controversial California AI Law Moves Forward With Amendments From Anthropic | The California Appropriations Committee passed the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act (also known as SB-1047) on Thursday, the latest move in the saga of regulating Silicon Valley. The state Assembly ... |
| 16.08.2024 | This Type of Content Will Impact Businesses Around the World — Here Are the Opportunities and Obstacles Entrepreneurs Need to Know About This article aims to provide entrepreneurs with basic knowledge... | "Spatial" is certainly one of the most popular words this year. In my opinion, Collins Dictionary is likely to include it at least on its shortlist for 2024. Spatial computing is an innovative technology that is changing the way w... |
| 14.08.2024 | Setpoint and Kiavi: Transforming the Credit Landscape with Innovation and Investment | In the fast-paced world of finance, innovation is the lifeblood that keeps the industry thriving. Two companies, Setpoint and Kiavi, are at the forefront of this transformation, each carving out a niche in the credit and real estate sectors... |
| 14.08.2024 | Fintech Tally Shuts Down as CEO Says Lack of Funding Doomed the Firm | Listen to this article 0:00 / 0:04 1X BeyondWords Tally, a Fintech created to assist consumers in paying of their credit card debt, has shuttered its doors. In a blog post, Tally CEO Jason Brown said it was the end of Tally as they were una... |
| 14.08.2024 | Nunu.ai secures USD 2 million in pre-seed funding | While quality is a critical factor in the gaming industry, the process of testing games is still manual. Studios invest countless hours in testing games for bugs, balancing gameplay, and ensuring a smooth player experience. The repetitive ... |
| 14.08.2024 | A Private Equity Takeover Is Coming for Startups PitchBook data shows software buyouts are on the rebound. | This article originally appeared on Business Insider. Scott Arnold was preparing to take his company, AuditBoard, a Southern California provider of audit and risk-management software, to the public markets. Hg had other ideas. The European... |
| 14.08.2024 | Levels Raises $10M to Expand Metabolic Health Platform | What You Should Know: –Levels, a software company that shows you how food affects your health, today announced a $10 million Series A Extension to bring its mission of solving the metabolic health crisis to an even wider audience. – The rou... |
| 13.08.2024 | Setpoint: Finance Infrastructure Provider Company Secures $31 Million (Series B) | Setpoint, a leading infrastructure provider for the credit industry, announced today the successful completion of its $31 million Series B funding round. 645 Ventures led the round, with significant strategic investments from Citi and Wells... |
| 13.08.2024 | IDRx Raises $120 Million To Transform Cancer Treatment With Precision Therapies | IDRx (a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming cancer treatment with purpose-built precision therapies) announced the completion of an oversubscribed $120 million Series B Preferred Stock financing. This financin... |
| 07.08.2024 | +++ Solytic +++ Aeditive +++ Pflegix +++ Black Forest Labs +++ Startup-Politik +++ KI +++ DHDL +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Mittwoch, 6. August) #STARTUPLAND: NUR FÜR FRÜHE VÖGEL +++ Kommt mit ins Startupland! Ab sofort könnt Ihr Eu... |
| 06.08.2024 | Google Cloud предложила выделенный кластер GPU Nvidia для стартапов Y Combinator | Google Cloud выделила стартапам Y Combinator доступ к субсидируемому кластеру графических процессоров Nvidia и тензорных процессоров самой компании для создания моделей искусственного интеллекта. Таким образом IT-гигант намерен стимулироват... |
| 03.08.2024 | The Race for AI Video Supremacy: Turbocharged Innovations and New Frontiers | The world of AI video generation is evolving at breakneck speed. New players are entering the arena, and established names are revving their engines. The latest developments from Runway and Hedra illustrate this dynamic landscape. Both comp... |
| 02.08.2024 | Black Forest Labs Unleashes FLUX.1: A New Era in AI Image Generation | In the world of artificial intelligence, innovation is the lifeblood. The recent launch of Black Forest Labs and its FLUX.1 image generation models marks a significant turning point. This startup, born from the minds behind Stability AI, is... |
| 02.08.2024 | Google strikes licensing deal with Character AI and poaches top executives for DeepMind | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI avatar company Character AI is getting close with Google. The startup today announced in a blog post that it w... |
| 02.08.2024 | Protocol Village: Arthur Hayes Releases NFT Collection 'Airheads' on Bitcoin Ordinals | Friday, Aug. 2 Arthur Hayes Releases NFT Collection 'Airheads' on Bitcoin Ordinals Arthur Hayes, co-founder of the BitMEX crypto exchange who now serves as chief investment officer of his own private-wealth office, Maelstrom, announced his ... |
| 02.08.2024 | Стартап Black Forest Labs выпустил модели генерации изображений FLUX.1 | Примеры генерации FLUX.1 от Black Forest Labs Стартап Black Forest Labs объявил о своём формировании и немедленно представил три модели для генерации изображений по текстовому промпту. FLUX.1, созданный выходцами из Stability AI, претендует... |
| 02.08.2024 | FLUX: This new AI image generator is eerily good at creating human hands | Enlarge / AI-generated image by FLUX.1 dev: "A beautiful queen of the universe holding up her hands, face in the background." FLUX.1 reader comments 118 On Thursday, AI-startup Black Forest Labs announced the launch of its company... |
| 01.08.2024 | Crypto Lending Firm Morpho Bags $50M in Funding Round Led by Ribbit Capital | Morpho did not disclose a valuation based on the funding, which was raised by a private token sale. Morpho previously raised $18 million in 2022, when the DeFi firm’s CEO, Paul Frambot, was still in his third year at college. Morpho, a dece... |
| 01.08.2024 | Hedra releases video-focused foundation model Character-1 | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI video creation platform Hedra raised $10 million in seed funding, continuing the demand for AI-focused investm... |
| 01.08.2024 | Stable Diffusion creators launch Black Forest Labs, secure $31M for FLUX.1 AI image generator | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Black Forest Labs, a startup founded by the original creators of Stable Diffusion, unveiled its brand new FLUX.1 ... |
| 01.08.2024 | Prepared Unveils New Two-Way Audio Translation to Save Valuable Time on Non-English 911 Calls | NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Prepared, the leading AI platform built to revolutionize emergency communications, announces the upcoming launch of two-way audio translation, a lifesaving audio feature for non-English 911 calls. Prep... |
| 30.07.2024 | Blackbird, Web3 Startup From Resy Co-Founder, Wants Diners to Pay for Meals in Crypto | Blackbird Labs, the restaurant loyalty platform founded by Resy and Eater co-founder Ben Leventhal, announced the launch of Blackbird Pay, a system that will allow participating restaurants to accept payment in cryptocurrency. Blackbird, ba... |
| 30.07.2024 | Welcome to the Age of Marketing Automation: Amazon and Google Open the Door to Generative for Marketers Let's take a deeper look at the early iterations of an automation landslide throughout marketing... | It's been a whirlwind of technological innovation since the arrival of ChatGPT by OpenAI in late 2022. Just 18 months on, the world's tech giants have already launched transformative new tools to steer marketing automation to brave new fron... |
| 30.07.2024 | Trump’s embrace of bitcoin is the art of the grift | Donald Trump Financial bubbles are inherently political. John Law’s doomed pumping of Mississippi Co stock in 18th-century France came with the state’s blessing. Deregulation also helped fuel Japan’s 1980s market boom. More recently, Sam Ba... |
| 28.07.2024 | Отчёт: мнение компаний непропорционально сильно влияет на то, как СМИ пишут про ИИ | Изображение из отчёта «Selective Perspectives: A Content Analysis of The New York Times’ Reporting on Artificial Intelligence» Некоммерческая организация Computer Says Maybe провела анализ 90 статей газеты New York Times, чтобы выявить, как... |
| 28.07.2024 | Talkpush Introduces Sam, the First Gen AI-Powered Voice Interviewer | Your interview days are over Talkpush has launched Sam, the first generative AI-powered voice interviewer, revolutionizing the recruitment process with real-time, personalized interactions. Sam, built on advanced NLP and machine learning te... |
| 26.07.2024 | Headway's Leap: Transforming Mental Healthcare with $100 Million Boost | In a world where mental health often takes a backseat, Headway is steering the wheel. The New York-based mental health platform recently secured $100 million in Series D funding, catapulting its valuation to a staggering $2.3 billion. This ... |
| 26.07.2024 | The Rise of AI in Marketing: Transforming Strategies and Engagement** ** | ** In the digital age, marketing is evolving faster than a speeding bullet. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new superhero, swooping in to save time, cut costs, and enhance creativity. From content creation to customer engagement, AI is ... |
| 25.07.2024 | Headway: $100 Million In Series D Closed At $2.3 Billion Valuation To Build New Mental Healthcare System | Headway, a company building a new mental healthcare system, announced a $100 million Series D funding round and its planned expansion to Medicare Advantage and Medicaid. These developments will enable clinicians on the platform to scale the... |
| 25.07.2024 | Harris vs Trump and the battle for Silicon Valley | Kamala Harris’s ascent as the likely US Democratic presidential nominee is quelling the party’s fears that recent endorsements of Donald Trump by a handful of high-profile venture capitalists might turn Silicon Valley into a Republican stro... |
| 24.07.2024 | Не только ChatGPT: какие нейросети используют в маркетинге | Содержание: Как сэкономить время и деньги на создании контента Как создавать изображения и видео для рекламы Как персонализировать контент Как использовать чат-боты для службы поддержки Как создавать креативный контент, звуки и вкусы Как ан... |
| 24.07.2024 | Iconiq Capital привлекла $5,75 млрд для нового фонда инвестиций в стартапы | По словам представителя компании Iconiq Capital, этот фонд является седьмым фондом роста Iconiq и представляет собой существенное увеличение по сравнению с предыдущим фондом, в который было вложено $4,06 млрд. В этом году инвесторы вложили ... |
| 23.07.2024 | AI arms race escalates: OpenAI offers free GPT-4o Mini fine-tuning to counter Meta’s Llama 3.1 release | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI has intensified the AI arms race by announcing free fine-tuning for its GPT-4o Mini model, just hours afte... |
| 23.07.2024 | District Cover raises $7 million | Small business insurance broker District Cover District Cover Founded: 2022 Headquarters: Nashville, Tennessee, United States Total Funding: $7M See full company profile "> has raised over $7 million in a funding round led by Mosaic... |
| 23.07.2024 | Headway scores $100M, more than doubling its valuation to $2.3B | Photo: Anchiy/Getty Images New York-based mental health platform Headway announced it secured $100 million in Series D funding, more than doubling its valuation to $2.3 billion. Spark Capital led the round, joined by existing investors a16z... |
| 23.07.2024 | Saronic: Defense Technology Leader Raises $175 Million At $1 Billion Valuation | Saronic, a defense technology leader that designs and manufactures autonomous surface vessels (ASVs), announced a $175 million Series B funding round, putting the company’s valuation at $1 billion. And the funding round was led by Andreesse... |
| 22.07.2024 | Gaming Startup Funding Fell In Q2 | 3 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Funding to gaming startups is a lot like gaming itself. Sometimes players are up or down due to factors like skill, practice and perseverance. Other times, it’s just dumb luck. Investment in gaming s... |
| 19.07.2024 | Saronic Latest Defense Tech Startup To Hit Unicorn Status | 8 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Autonomous surface vessels maker Saronic locked up a $175 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz — minting the defense tech startup as the newest unicorn in the growing... |
| 19.07.2024 | Humana backs Healthpilot | Health company Humana announced a minority investment in Healthpilot, which offers a digital enrollment experience for Medicare options. Founded in 2020, Healthpilot claims to use an AI-powered model, developed by co-founder Dr. Jonathan Ko... |
| 18.07.2024 | Thyme Care Revolutionizing Cancer Care with $95M Funding Boost | Thyme Care, a game-changer in value-based cancer care, secures a whopping $95M in funding to expand its innovative platform and make waves in the healthcare industry. Thyme Care, a leading player in the value-based cancer care arena, has ju... |
| 18.07.2024 | Design startup Figma secures new investors | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore"> Design software startup Figma has closed a tender offer valuing the design software startup at $12.5 billion, a spokesperson tells Axios. Why it matters: The transact... |
| 18.07.2024 | Q Bio Secures $27M to Expand Full-Body MRI with Mark I Scanner | What You Should Know: – Q Bio Inc., a pioneer in medical imaging technology secures $27M in strategic funding to propel its innovative Mark I full-body scanner towards market launch. This investment round welcomes new investor TELUS Global ... |
| 17.07.2024 | Thyme Care Secures $95M to Expand Value-Based Cancer Care Platform | What You Should Know: – Thyme Care, a leading value-based cancer care enabler raises $95M in funding capital led by Concord Health Partners, with participation from existing investors including CVS Health® Ventures, Town Hall Ventures, a16z... |
| 17.07.2024 | Figma confirms undisclosed funding round that brings its value to $12.5B Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provide ... | Collaborative design software startup Figma Inc. today confirmed it has closed on a significant funding round led by a group of investors including Coatue Management, Alkeon Capital Management and General Catalyst Partners. The size of the ... |
| 17.07.2024 | Trump allies want to “Make America First in AI” with sweeping executive order | Enlarge / Former US President Donald Trump during a campaign event at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Florida, US, on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. Getty Images reader comments 349 Allies of former President Donald Trump have reportedly d... |
| 17.07.2024 | AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li reportedly raises $100M for new spatial intelligence startup Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission t... | World Labs, a new startup founded by prominent artificial intelligence researcher Fei-Fei Li, has reportedly raised about $100 million in funding. The Financial Times reported the investment today. According to the paper’s sources, World La... |
| 15.07.2024 | Google In Talks To Buy Cyber Startup Wiz For $23B — Report | 7 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The somewhat stagnant M&A market may be about to get a jumpstart. One of its biggest ever involving a venture capital-backed startup. Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is reportedly in adva... |
| 15.07.2024 | Worldcoin — провал Сэма Альтмана? | В 2019 году Альтман и два других инвестора, заручившись поддержкой Andreessen Horowitz и сооснователя LinkedIn Рида Хоффмана, запустили Worldcoin. Стартап быстро привлек внимание, предложив бесплатные криптовалютные токены людям, которые со... |
| 13.07.2024 | AI Revolution: Hebbia's $130M Series B Funding Sparks Innovation | In a groundbreaking move that has sent shockwaves through the tech industry, the AI startup Hebbia has recently secured a monumental $130 million Series B funding round led by a16z. This significant investment not only underscores the growi... |
| 11.07.2024 | VC Firms Are Stocking Up on Nvidia A.I. Chips to Win Deals Amid GPU Shortage | The venture capital firm was founded by Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen in 2009. Photos by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for WIRED and Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images As the tech world races to get their hands on a d... |
| 10.07.2024 | Pokemon Go: история революции в дополненной реальности | Многим жителям российских городов-миллионников 2016 год запомнился новым веянием. На улицах, в подъездах, на дорогах и в метро сотни молодых людей как оголтелые носились с телефонами наперевес и пытались поймать мультяшных монстров. Доходил... |
| 09.07.2024 | Parallel, a hangout app where you can hang out with friends, has over 5 million registered users! Monthly users are rapidly increasing, and it has grown to the same scale as famous overseas platforms. | parallel company Parallel, a hangout app where you can hang out with friends, has over 5 million registered users! Monthly users are rapidly increasing, and it has grown to the same scale as famous overseas platforms. The latest user trends... |
| 09.07.2024 | Command Zero launches with $21M to speed up breach investigations Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provide free, d... | Startup Command Zero Inc. launched today with $21 million in funding and a platform designed to help companies investigate data breaches faster. Andreessen Horowitz led the investment. According to Command Zero, the venture capital firm was... |
| 08.07.2024 | Hebbia nets $130M to build the go-to AI platform for knowledge retrieval | We want to hear from you! Take our quick AI survey and share your insights on the current state of AI, how you’re implementing it, and what you expect to see in the future. Learn More In the age of AI, enterprises want to drive critical int... |
| 07.07.2024 | Function Health: Transforming Health Management for a Better Future | Function Health, a pioneering platform in the realm of health assessment, has recently secured a significant investment of $6.5 million. This funding boost, led by Andreessen Horowitz, marks a pivotal moment in the company's journey towards... |
| 06.07.2024 | Function: Health Assessment Company Raises $6.5 Million | Function is a first-of-its-kind platform transforming how people manage their lifelong health starting with providing the deepest possible understanding of their body and what they should do to improve their health. Function also revealed t... |
| 02.07.2024 | k-ID Closes $45 Million Series A from Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners to Set a New Global Benchmark | k-ID is a cross-platform, instant sign-on solution for kids and teens built as an all-in-one answer for solving the complex issue of privacy and online safety worldwide. This latest of three funding rounds in less than nine months comes as ... |
| 02.07.2024 | The Talent Studios has placed Harley Butler as the Chief Executive Officer of the fast-growing personal care and home products brand, Public Goods | NEW YORK, July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Mr. Butler joins Public Goods after holding the CEO role at personal care and beauty brand, Hairstory. Mr. Butler was formerly the Chief Marketing Officer of the shopping and delivery service, Shipt he... |
| 27.06.2024 | Formation Bio: Revolutionizing Pharma with AI | Formation Bio, a NYC-based tech-driven and AI-native pharma company, recently secured a staggering $372M in Series D funding. This funding, led by a16z and with significant participation from Sanofi, marks a significant milestone for the co... |
| 27.06.2024 | AI Startups in Legal Battle with Record Labels | AI startups Suno and Udio are facing legal battles with major record labels over alleged copyright violations. The record labels, including Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Records, are seeking compensation for what they claim ... |
| 27.06.2024 | Deals in brief: Samsara Eco bags USD 65 million, Mekari acquires Jojonomic, Hozon Auto files for Hong Kong IPO, and more | NewsDeals in brief: a16z and Lightspeed co-lead Series A investment in k-ID, Pawprints Group secures extension to seed round, Earth VC invests in Orbillion Bio, and more Written by KrASIA Writers k-ID, Pawprints Group, Opilot, and more led ... |
| 27.06.2024 | Talkiatry: In-Network Psychiatric Care Company Closes $130 Million In Series C Funding | Talkiatry, a leading provider of in-network psychiatric care, announced a $130 million equity and debt financing as part of a Series C round. This equity round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Perceptive Advisor... |
| 26.06.2024 | k-ID: Transforming the Digital Landscape for Youth Safety and Privacy | In a groundbreaking move, k-ID, a trailblazing Singapore-based company, has successfully closed a monumental $45 million Series A funding round. This significant investment is set to propel k-ID to the forefront of the online safety and pri... |
| 26.06.2024 | Function Raises Series A; $53M Raised in Total | Function, an Austin TX-based provider of a platform that manages lifelong health, closed a Series A funding. The round, which brought the total amount to $53M, was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health with support from the a16z Cu... |
| 26.06.2024 | Crypto Giants Notch Wins in Expensive Quest to Sway U.S. Politics – Without Mentioning Crypto | The crypto industry has been deploying a $169 million fund that's so far supported more than 20 congressional primary wins in the 2024 elections – including helping knock off an incumbent congressman in New York this week. The companies beh... |
| 26.06.2024 | Formation Bio secures $372MM Series D funding to grow drug pipeline and continue expanding AI-driven drug development platform | NEW YORK, June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Formation Bio, a tech-driven and AI-native pharma company, announced today that it has raised $372MM of Series D financing. The financing was led by a16z with significant participation from Sanofi. Cu... |
| 26.06.2024 | AI-powered drug development startup Formation Bio raises $372M Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provide free, deep... | Formation Bio Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to speed up drug development, today announced that it has closed a mammoth $372 million investment. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series D funding round. It was joined by pharmaceuti... |
| 25.06.2024 | k-ID Closes $45 Million Series A from Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners to Set a New Global Benchmark for Age-appropriate Gaming Experiences | k-ID is a cross-platform, instant sign-on solution for kids and teens built as an all-in-one answer for solving the complex issue of privacy and online safety worldwide. This latest of three funding rounds in less than nine months comes as ... |
| 25.06.2024 | A Microsoft-Partnered AI Startup Is Being Sued By the Biggest Record Labels in the World The company is allegedly profiting from AI without compensating the human work that fed the technology, the law... | Since AI can take a written command and create an image, movie, or song within seconds, the process can seem almost magical at first glance. Yet there are key legal issues that persist underneath the shine. Does the company behind the AI mo... |
| 25.06.2024 | k-ID Closes $45 Million Series A from Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners to Set a New Global Benchmark for Age-appropriate Gaming Experiences | k-ID is a cross-platform, instant sign-on solution for kids and teens built as an all-in-one answer for solving the complex issue of privacy and online safety worldwide. This latest of three funding rounds in less than nine months comes as ... |
| 21.06.2024 | SoundHound AI Acquires Allset | SoundHound (Nasdaq: SOUN), a Santa Clara, CA-based company which specializes in voice artificial intelligence, acquired Allset, a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of an online ordering platform that connects restaurants and local customers. T... |
| 20.06.2024 | Decagon Disrupts Customer Support Landscape with Innovative AI-Powered Agents | In a groundbreaking move, Decagon, a leading generative AI company, has secured a substantial $35 million in funding to revolutionize the customer support industry. The company's emergence from stealth mode has been met with great anticipat... |
| 19.06.2024 | Talkiatry Revolutionizes Mental Health Care with $130M Funding | Talkiatry, a NYC-based provider of in-network psychiatric care, recently secured a whopping $130 million in Series C funding. Led by Andreessen Horowitz, this funding will propel Talkiatry's mission to expand its value-based care model for ... |
| 18.06.2024 | Talkiatry Raises $130M in Series C Funding | Talkiatry, a NYC-based provider of an in-network psychiatric care, raised $130M in Series C funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Perceptive Advisors. Debt financing was provided by Banc of Califor... |
| 18.06.2024 | Telepsychiatry Practice Talkiatry Secures $130M to Expand Value-Based Mental Healthcare Model | What You Should Know: – Talkiatry, a leading provider of high-quality, in-network psychiatric care raises $130M led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Perceptive Advisors and debt financing from Banc of California. – Talk... |
| 18.06.2024 | Decagon Secures $35Million from Accel and a16z for AI-Powered Customer Support | The company emerges from stealth with Eventbrite, Bilt, Substack, and Rippling as customers Decagon, a generative AI company powering enterprise customer support, emerged from stealth and announced its Seed and Series A funding round of $35... |
| 13.06.2024 | Google's Anti-Theft AI Feature Takes on Brazil's Smartphone Security Landscape | In a bold move to combat smartphone theft, Google has chosen Brazil as the testing ground for its innovative anti-theft AI feature for Android phones. This new technology aims to revolutionize smartphone security by utilizing artificial int... |
| 12.06.2024 | Mistral AI: €600 Million Raised At About A €6 Billion Valuation | Mistral AI, a Paris-based open and portable generative AI service for developers and businesses, announced it has raised €600 million in a Series B funding round. General Catalyst led the round, which also included Lightspeed, Andreessen Ho... |
| 11.06.2024 | Mistral AI Emerges as a Powerhouse in the European AI Arena | Mistral AI, a rising star in the realm of artificial intelligence, has recently made waves by securing a substantial €600 million in funding. This funding round, spearheaded by General Catalyst and supported by a consortium of investors inc... |
| 11.06.2024 | Mistral raises massive $640M to take on OpenAI, Anthropic in the global gen AI race | It's time to celebrate the incredible women leading the way in AI! Nominate your inspiring leaders for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards today before June 18. Learn More A year after entering the generative AI race with Europe’s largest-ever... |
| 11.06.2024 | Elon Musk Withdraws Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Contract Breach Allegations | By Inno Flores Published Jun 11, 2024 11:12PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket Elon Musk's recent decision to drop his lawsuit against OpenAI marks a significant dev... |
| 11.06.2024 | French AI challenger Mistral AI raises €600M | Challenger AI startup Mistral has raised a €600M round for its bid to rival industry leader OpenAI. The round was led by General Catalyst as well as existing investors Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Bpifrance and BNP Paribas. Microsoft, w... |
| 11.06.2024 | French open-source AI model startup Mistral AI raises $640M at $6B valuation Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to prov... | Mistral AI, a Paris-based artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has raised €600 million ($640 million) in new funding at a valuation of $6 billion in a round led by General Catalyst. The funds come from a Series B round a... |
| 10.06.2024 | ZeroMark: Revolutionizing Defense Technology with AI-Powered Auto-Aiming System | In a world where drone technology poses an evolving threat to armed forces, defense technology company ZeroMark has raised a significant $7 million in seed funding to propel the development of its groundbreaking AI-powered auto-aiming syste... |
| 10.06.2024 | Apple Intelligence first reactions: from ‘pure slop’ to ‘excellent work’ | Apple had been among the tech giants most conspicuously absent from — or at least, low-key about — the generative AI craze, at least until today. At its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC 2024) in Cupertino, California, the company... |
| 10.06.2024 | ZeroMark: Defense Technology Company Raises $7 Million | Defense technology company ZeroMark announced a $7 million seed funding round led by Ground Up Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. This funding accelerates the development of ZeroMark’s groundbreaking AI-powered auto-aiming system, which tran... |
| 07.06.2024 | Most-Active US Investors In May: Andreessen Horowitz And General Catalyst Lead Month With A Lot Of Big Rounds | 9 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn This is a monthly feature that runs down some of the most-active investors in U.S.-based companies, looks at some of their most interesting investments, and includes some odds and ends of who spent w... |
| 07.06.2024 | Jensanity! Nvidia valuation tops $3T — until regulators and naysayers weigh in In AI, it’s all about the data Around the enterprise: Big spending on fabs and data centers Cyber beat: Microsoft sort of... | Have we reached peak AI? This was a week in which CEO Jensen Huang’s Nvidia hit $3 trillion in market capitalization, only to fall back below that mark on reports of an antitrust probe by the Justice Department. Easy come, easy go. Meantime... |
| 06.06.2024 | Stripe: самая дорогая финтех-компания в Кремниевой долине | Содержание Что такое Stripe и зачем он нужен Компания в период пандемии Самый дорогой финтех-стартап Как у Stripe получилось вырасти почти до $100 млрд Какие компании используют Stripe Плюсы и минусы сервиса Преимущества Недостатки Альтерна... |
| 04.06.2024 | UK wealthech backed by Tom Blomfield looks to crowdfund £1m | A UK wealthtech targeting the mass affluent and backed by Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield is returning to the crowdfunding market, looking to raise £1m. Prosper was co-founded in 2020 by former Tandem executives Ricky Knox and Nick Perrett (... |
| 03.06.2024 | Flood of Cash from Coinbase Gives Crypto One of the Biggest Campaign War Chests | The crypto industry has so far gathered about $161 million after Coinbase became the latest company to donate $25 million to its political action committees for this election, which potentially makes it among the most formidable campaign-fi... |
| 31.05.2024 | EasyA Reaches One Million Developers Milestone | EasyA, the world’s leading Web3 education app, proudly announces that it has surpassed one million developers actively engaged. This achievement underscores EasyA’s pivotal role in accelerating the world’s shift from Web2 to Web3. EasyA off... |
| 30.05.2024 | Eye On AI: xAI’s Backers Have A Lot Of Other Bets Besides Musk’s LLM | 2 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. Looks like we are back to weekly billion-dollar raises at multibillion-dollar valuations, at least when it comes to ... |
| 29.05.2024 | Viewpoint Partners with Rasa to Explore Innovations in Generative AI | Rasa The informational program highlights how technology can aid businesses... MIAMI, May 29, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Viewpoint, the esteemed educational program hosted by renowned actor Dennis Quaid, is excited to announce a collaborati... |
| 29.05.2024 | Odyssey Secures $10 Million Series A Funding to Expand Education Opportunities for Families Nationwide | Award-winning technology platform makes high-quality education more accessible NEW YORK, May 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Odyssey, a mission-driven tech startup providing the most advanced school choice platform available, today announced it se... |
| 27.05.2024 | Руководство по написанию промптов | Написание промптов — это искусство общения с генеративной ИИ-моделью. В этой статье мы расскажем о том, как мы в GitHub подходим к составлению промптов и как можно использовать эти принципы для создания собственного приложения на основе LLM... |
| 27.05.2024 | Elon Musk’s xAI Record $6 Billion in Series B Funding | Share Tweet Share Share Email Elon Musk’s xAI Record $6 Billion in Series B Funding Takeaway Points Elon Musk’s xAI Record $6 Billion in Series B Funding xAI said that its technology updates and products will soon be announced. Andreessen H... |
| 27.05.2024 | Empresa de IA de Elon Musk arrecada US$ 6 bilhões de investidores | Elon Musk também revelou que valor de mercado da xAI subiu para US$ 18 bilhões (Imagem: Vitor Pádua/Tecnoblog) Saiba mais sobre Elon Musk no nosso canal no WhatsApp Entre Agora A xAI, empresa de IA generativa de Elon Musk, anunciou que rece... |
| 27.05.2024 | Elon Musk’s xAI Secures $6 Billion Funding to Rival OpenAI, Other AI Firms | By Joseph Henry Published May 27, 2024 7:11PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket Artificial intelligence (AI) companies are continuously appearing and integrating them... |
| 27.05.2024 | xAI привлек 6 миллиардов долларов чтобы бросить вызов OpenAI | Илон Маск вложил внушительные 6 миллиардов долларов в свой ИИ-стартап xAI, чтобы бросить вызов своим бывшим союзникам из OpenAI. Раунд финансирования серии В, объявленный 26 мая, состоялся менее чем через год после запуска xAI и на данный м... |
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