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3 weeks ago | 
a16z.com | Angela Strange |James da Costa
At a16z'a fourth annual Connect/Fintech event, discussions spanned what's working in AI, operational lessons on how to scale faster, and the future of banking charters.
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1 month ago | 
a16z.com | Angela Strange |James da Costa
For voice agents in finance to become successful, they will need to navigate a number of industry-specific nuances.
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2 months ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Towner |Soups Ranjan |Andrew Steele |Angela Strange
Sardine, the leading AI risk platform for fraud, compliance, and credit underwriting, today announced a $70 million Series C funding round, bringing the total capital raised to $145 million. The round was led by Activant Capital, with participation from new and existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Nyca Partners, Google Ventures, Geodesic Capital, Cross Creek Capital, Moody’s Analytics, Experian Ventures, and NAventures.
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2 months ago | 
a16z.com | Marc Andrusko |Seema Amble |Angela Strange
In the January 2025 Fintech newsletter, we break down the rise of vertical AI in accounting, big ideas for 2025 in fintech, and market intel.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Kimberly Ane Tan |David Ulevitch |Angela Strange |Jeff Silverstein
As AI turns labor into software, the opportunity to productize external professional services (e.g., in legal or accounting) has become a hot topic. However, we believe there is also substantial opportunity in productizing internal work within organizations. These responsibilities often fall under the umbrella term of “operations” and can range from full-time data entry and front desk roles, to routine operational tasks embedded in every other role.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Angela Strange |Santiago Rodriguez |Alex Immerman |James da Costa
In this month's fintech newsletter, we look at how AI is driving a new beginning for fintech. Plus, when fintechs look more like banks, what does it mean for valuations?
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Angela Strange |Justin Kahl |David George |Alex Immerman
This is the first installment of a two-part series on AI Inside Vertical SaaS. In 2020, we wrote about how fintech scales vertical SaaS and noted that by adding fintech, SaaS businesses can increase revenue per customer by 2-5x and open up new SaaS markets that were previously inaccessible due to market size or customer acquisition cost. Four years later, vertical SaaS (VSaaS) is scaling once again, but now it’s for a different reason: artificial intelligence.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Angela Strange
Every White-Collar Role Will Have An AI Copilot. Then An AI Agent. | Andreessen HorowitzWe believe every white-collar role will have an AI copilot. Some of these roles will be fully automated with AI agents. While incumbents are often …
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Angela Strange |Marc Andrusko |Dileep Thazhmon |Santiago Suarez
We believe every white-collar role will have an AI copilot. Some of these roles will be fully automated with AI agents. While incumbents are often slow to respond to changes in technology (there’s a reason why the average tenure of an organization in the S&P 500 has fallen from 35 years in the 1970s to less than 20 years today!), the most natural place for these copilots and agents to live is the incumbent workflow or system of record (e.g., sales agents launched from Salesforce).
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Alex Rampell |Marc Andrusko |Angela Strange |Anish Acharya
For centuries, the biggest goal of science was alchemy — to turn lead into gold. It turns out this is actually possible in nuclear physics and is called transmutation. Bombard mercury with neutrons in a nuclear reactor or particle accelerator…and presto! Gold. Today, thanks to AI, we are witnessing potentially the greatest transmutation in history. Software becomes labor. It’s the new E=MC2. Capital buys coffee, engineers, and GPUs. Out comes code that takes the role of labor.
