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2 months ago | 
a16z.com | Olivia Moore |Anish Acharya |Seema Amble |Justine Moore
For enterprises, AI directly replaces human labor with technology. It’s cheaper, faster, more reliable — and often outperforms humans. Voice agents also allow businesses to be available to their customers 24/7 to answer questions, schedule appointments, or complete purchases. Customer availability and business availability no longer have to match 1:1 (ever tried to call an East Coast bank after 3 p.m. PT?); with voice agents, every business can always be online.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Justine Moore |Anish Acharya |Olivia Moore |Bryan Kim
Featured Creativity Content
Elevating AI + Art Artists are at the forefront of the AI platform shift. As new high fidelity tools emerge along the creative stack, technology is extending the impact of filmmakers, designers, animators, illustrators, photographers, and multimedia artists.
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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.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Zeya Yang |Marc Andrusko |Angela Strange |Anish Acharya
The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation. In sales tech, it’s easy to assume incumbents like Salesforce and Hubspot have the edge. First, they are embedded as “systems of record,” so sales leaders are loath to rip them out and replace them.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
360wisemedia.com | Anish Acharya
Gynger, a platform that lends capital to companies to purchase technology, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by PayPal Ventures, TechCrunch reported exclusively. The financing brings the New York startup’s total enterprise capital to $31.7 million and includes participation from Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused enterprise fund), Velvet Sea Ventures, BAG Ventures and Deciens Capital.
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May 13, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Alex Rampell |Bryan Kim |Anish Acharya |Angela Strange
Here’s a math puzzle:A good salesperson can sell 50 widgets a year, earns $100,000 a year, and will not take a pay cut. A company has an amazing new widget that needs to be sold (people will not find it on their own/aren’t looking for it). Prospective customers of this company’s new widget will happily pay $500/year, but not a dollar more. How will this company do? To quote Mean Girls: “The limit does not exist!” Or, more accurately, the company cannot exist.
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May 9, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Jonathan Lai |Jack Soslow |Anish Acharya |Alex Immerman
If history is a guide, transformative breakthroughs emerge when powerful creative tools reach the masses. That’s why we’re thrilled to lead the $5M seed round for Yellow, a company focused on revolutionizing 3D character creation through generative AI. The potential impact is immense.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Adela Tomsejova |Anish Acharya |Justine Moore |Olivia Moore
a16z General Partner Zane Lackey and Partner Joel de la Garza recently sat down with us to discuss the state of security in 2024. They addressed the top concern for CISOs: the impact of generative AI on enterprise security. Here’s what they had to say about the key considerations for technology adoption and strategies CISOs can employ to navigate the rise of AI-driven security solutions:1. What is the biggest security threat that enterprises face today?
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Anish Acharya |Justine Moore |Olivia Moore |Alex Immerman
It’s impossible to talk about new technology without talking about human flourishing — every new technology from the plow to the microchip has typically been followed by a period of newfound wealth for consumers in the form of cheaper goods, improved productivity, and longer, healthier lives.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Justine Moore |Anish Acharya |Olivia Moore |Bryan Kim
This post has been adapted from a thread from a16z Partner Justine Moore on X. Follow Justine on X for more analysis and observations. 2023 was a breakout year for AI video. At the start of the year, no public text-to-video models existed. Just 12 months later, dozens of video generation products are in active use, with millions of users worldwide creating short clips from text or image prompts.
