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Andreessen Horowitz, based in Menlo Park, California, is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in technology-driven companies. The firm aims to redefine the venture capital landscape by prioritizing the support of entrepreneurs and their innovative ideas.

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In Consumer AI, Momentum Is the Moat | Andreessen Horowitz

2 weeks ago | a16z.com | Bryan Kim

Notes on distribution tactics, seizing mindshare…and an extended metaphor about pigeons.
Faster, Smarter, Cheaper: AI Is Reinventing Market Research

3 weeks ago | a16z.com | Zach Cohen |Seema Amble

For decades, companies have poured billions of dollars into market research to better understand their customers, only to be constrained by slow surveys, biased panels, and lagging insights. Despite the $140 billion spent each year on market research, software is little more than a rounding error.
How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Rewrites the Rules of Search

1 month ago | a16z.com | Zach Cohen |Seema Amble

It’s the end of search as we know it, and marketers feel fine. Sort of. For over two decades, SEO was the default playbook for visibility online. It spawned an entire industry of keyword stuffers, backlink brokers, content optimizers, and auditing tools, along with the professionals and agencies to operate them. But in 2025, search has been shifting away from traditional browsers toward LLM platforms.
Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz

1 month ago | a16z.com | Ben Horowitz

Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. As a matter of fact, it’s safe to say that they would rather switch than fight. —Public Enemy (sampled from Thomas Todd), Fight the PowerEarly in my tenure as product manager for the web servers at Netscape, we faced a terrible crisis. We just got our hands on Microsoft’s new web server, Internet Information Server (IIS), and benchmarked against our product.
What Stripe’s Acquisition of Bridge Means for Fintech and Stablecoins (April 2025 Fintech Newsletter) | Andreessen Horowitz

2 months ago | a16z.com | Robert Hackett |Sonal Chokshi |Daren Matsuoka |Sam Broner
Introducing Erik Torenberg

2 months ago | a16z.com | Marc Andreessen

When we started a16z, we decided that we were going to take a very network and media heavy approach to venture capital. That we wanted to treat venture as not only a craft, but also a product, and staff an organization set up for that goal. We sometimes called ourselves “a media company that monetizes via investing”. While these efforts are commonplace in 2025, they were not when we began them in 2009.
Investing in Krea | Andreessen Horowitz

2 months ago | a16z.com | Anish Acharya |Justine Moore |Olivia Moore

Krea is building an interface for creative professionals and enthusiasts to use AI tools. The product combines powerful primitives with the most cutting-edge models, acting as a copilot that multiplies human creativity.
AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

2 months ago | a16z.com | Justine Moore

What happens when AI doesn’t just generate content, but embodies it? AI has already mastered the ability to produce realistic photos, videos, and voices, passing the visual and auditory Turing Test. The next big leap is in AI avatars: combining a face with a voice to create a talking character. Can’t you just generate an image of a face, animate it, and add a voiceover? Not quite. The challenge isn’t just nailing the lip sync — it’s making facial expressions and body language move in tandem.
What's Working in AI, Rebuilding Core Banking (March 2025 Fintech Newsletter) | Andreessen Horowitz

2 months 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.
A Deep Dive Into MCP and the Future of AI Tooling | Andreessen Horowitz

2 months ago | a16z.com | Yoko Li

We explore what MCP is, how it changes the way AI interacts with tools, what developers are already building, and the challenges that still need solving.