| 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 th... |
| 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 e... |
| 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 s... |
| 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:CA... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ha... |
| 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 Capabilit... |
| 01.08.2023 | Investing in Socket | Open source is the bedrock upon which all modern applications are built. But here’s the elephant in ... |
| 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 s... |
| 28.07.2023 | More Countries, More Problems: Selling AI Products Around th... | A dynamic new wave of digital-first companies has emerged, driven by a significant decrease in the c... |
| 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 fin... |
| 25.07.2023 | Anjney Midha | We’re thrilled to announce Anjney will be joining a16z as a general partner to lead our growing AI e... |
| 20.07.2023 | AI, Efficiency, and All Things Fintech in 2023: A Q&A wi... | From left to right: SoFi CEO Anthony Noto, Wise CEO Kristo Käärmann, Adyen co-CEO Pieter van der Doe... |
| 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 ... |
| 19.07.2023 | The NeverEnding Game: How AI Will Create a New Category of G... | The early discourse on the Generative AI Revolution in Games has largely focused on how AI tools can... |
| 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 w... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 shi... |
| 23.06.2023 | The Next Token of Progress: 4 Unlocks on the Generative AI H... | Large language models (LLMs) have taken the tech industry by storm, powering experiences that can on... |
| 22.06.2023 | Investing in Captions | As an investor, one of the most rewarding aspects of my job is believing in and standing alongside g... |
| 22.06.2023 | Investing in Apex | Last year, 180 launches successfully reached orbit—a record year for space. SpaceX led the way with ... |
| 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 [... |
| 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’... |
| 21.06.2023 | AI at the Intersection: The a16z Investment Thesis on AI in ... | A Tale of Two Exponentials Harnessing Moore to combat Eroom
Computers today are roughly 1000x more ... |
| 20.06.2023 | Investing in ElevenLabs | https://a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Justine-New-Voiceover.mp3
Listen to Bryan Kim read this... |
| 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 cred... |
| 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 c... |
| 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 yo... |
| 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 ... |
| 14.06.2023 | Executive Compensation | Your company’s compensation philosophy, process, and bands determine how most of your hires are comp... |
| 11.06.2023 | Expanding to the UK | Over the last year it has become clear that blockchains and the software movement around them — usua... |
| 08.06.2023 | Investing in Pomelo Care | “In the United States of America, in the 21st century, being pregnant and giving birth should not ca... |
| 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... |
| 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 r... |
| 02.06.2023 | How To Democratize Healthcare: AI Gives Everyone The Very Be... | Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in May 2018.
The greatest problem of health care... |
| 31.05.2023 | Generative AI is Coming for Insurance (May 2023 Fintech News... | TABLE OF CONTENTS
Generative AI is Coming for Insurance
Because underwriting, selling, and servici... |
| 25.05.2023 | AI Canon
A gentle introduction…
Foundational learning: neu... | Source: Midjourney
Research in artificial intelligence is increasing at an exponential rate. It’s d... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 19.05.2023 | A Personal Update | I was well into my career when I discovered the magical world of technology start-ups. This anecdote... |
| 18.05.2023 | Bat Out of Hell: Identifying Your Durable Advantage in Finte... | Imagine you are the founder of a fintech company that’s identified a massive broken market. As I’ve ... |
| 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... |
| 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 appre... |
| 16.05.2023 | Investing in Hippocratic AI | “Solving consumer engagement is worth $1 trillion to our organization,” said a health plan executive... |
| 15.05.2023 | Level Up: Welcoming our New Cultural Leadership Fund Nonprof... | Over the last 5 years, the work of the Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) has been growing and evolving ... |
| 10.05.2023 | Enterprise Startups: Advice on Hiring, Firing, Scaling, and ... | A16z recently brought together a group of early-stage CEOs to talk shop and learn from their peers w... |
| 09.05.2023 | It’s Time to Build For America: Announcing Our $500M+ Commit... | We formalized our American Dynamism practice a little more than a year ago to galvanize support for ... |
| 04.05.2023 | Embracing the Future: How Chatbots Can Become Great Companio... | “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Bu... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 b... |
| 02.05.2023 | The 16 Commandments of Raising Equity in a Challenging Marke... | Between inflation, rising interest rates, geopolitical tensions, and growing recession concerns, 202... |
| 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 syst... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 27.04.2023 | Both Sides of the Partnership: Executing Lyft’s “Impossible”... | If business partnerships are a high-stakes form of matchmaking, then the strategic partnership betwe... |
| 27.04.2023 | Investing in Pinecone | With the inflection of large language models (LLMs), we’re witnessing a paradigm shift in software d... |
| 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 behavi... |
| 26.04.2023 | Investing in Orbital Therapeutics | “The fact that proteins are not synthesized directly on genes demands the existence of an intermedia... |
| 24.04.2023 | Investing in Radiant | Most people don’t know that nuclear energy — a clean, carbon-free energy source — accounts for 20% o... |
| 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 health... |
| 19.04.2023 | Financial Services Will Embrace Generative AI Faster Than Yo... | Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been used in the financial services industry for m... |
| 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 behavi... |
| 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 behavi... |
| 14.04.2023 | The Modern Transactional Stack | Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Becau... |
| 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.
Fe... |
| 12.04.2023 | Investing in Function Oncology | “The power in tailored therapeutics is for us to say more clearly to payers, providers, and patients... |
| 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 behavi... |
| 07.04.2023 | Healthcare Marketplaces, Where Art Thou? | TABLE OF CONTENTS
At a16z, marketplaces represent one of our favorite business models. Our annual M... |
| 06.04.2023 | Vertical Operating Systems: One System of Record to Rule The... | When computers were first built, each new application had to be programmed specifically for each chi... |
| 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 studie... |
| 28.03.2023 | The Future of Payments is… Red? | Visa and Mastercard currently facilitate more than three-quarters of all credit card transactions in... |
| 27.03.2023 | Healthtech: Show Your Magic | TABLE OF CONTENTS
The public market situation for healthtech can seem pretty depressing. Recently I... |
| 23.03.2023 | Investing in Character.AI | The first time I tried Character.AI, it completely hijacked my husband’s birthday dinner. What had s... |
| 23.03.2023 | The Future of Ecommerce: How a Product Becomes a Purchase
P... | General Partner Connie Chan on how leading brands are using AI and other technology to combine the s... |
| 22.03.2023 | The Marketplace 100: 2022 | 2022 marks our third year releasing the Marketplace 100, a ranking of the largest consumer-facing ma... |
| 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 e... |
| 22.03.2023 | The a16z Marketplace 100: 2020 | Click here for 2021 edition of the Marketplace 100.
Today we introduce the Marketplace 100, a ranki... |
| 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 th... |
| 21.03.2023 | Investing in Coactive | Understanding what’s in an image — one of the simplest cognitive tasks for most humans — is a stubbo... |
| 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 1990... |
| 17.03.2023 | Space: A Market Map | In “The Space Age”, I wrote about the importance of mankind extending our reach into the stars. More... |
| 17.03.2023 | The Generative AI Revolution will Enable Anyone to Create Ga... | As the Generative AI Revolution in Games progresses, it will completely reshape User Generated Conte... |
| 16.03.2023 | Investing in Wingspan | The contractor payroll market is massive. Roughly one-third of U.S. workers have performed freelance... |
| 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 a... |
| 03.03.2023 | Do You Have Lightning In a Bottle? How to Benchmark Your Soc... | When a new social app starts to “work,” it feels like magic, but often looks like a black box.
What... |
| 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 sale... |
| 22.02.2023 | Investing in Svix | Every so often, we meet founders with unusually strong conviction about solving systems problems. Th... |
| 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 decomp... |
| 15.02.2023 | Negotiating Your First Warehouse Facility: Trade-offs Across... | This article is the second of four installments in our new series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplif... |
| 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... |
| 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 buildi... |
| 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... |
| 08.02.2023 | Investing in Macro | In recent years, we’ve seen a renaissance in productivity software. To make knowledge work seamless,... |
| 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 v... |
| 08.02.2023 | Investing in Snapser | We are thrilled to announce that a16z Games has led the Series Seed investment in Snapser, a games b... |
| 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... |
| 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 sta... |
