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Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz (also called a16z, legal name AH Capital Management, LLC) is a private American venture capital firm, founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Andreessen Horowitz invests in both early-stage start-ups and established growth companies.[1] Its investments span the mobile, cryptocurrency, gaming, social, e-commerce, education and enterprise IT (including cloud computing, security, and software as a service) industries.[2]
Between 2006 and 2010, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz actively invested in technology companies. Separately, and together, they invested $4 million in 45 start-ups including Twitter.[3] During this time, the two became known as "super angel" investors.[3]
On July 6, 2009, Andreessen and Horowitz launched their venture capital fund with an initial capitalization of $300 million.[4] In November 2010, at a time when the field of venture capitalism was contracting, the company raised another $650 million for a second venture fund.[4][5] In less than two years, the firm was managing a total of $1.2 billion under the two funds.[2]
In May 2011, Andreessen ranked number 10 on the 2011 Forbes Midas List of Tech's Top Investors[6] while he and Horowitz ranked number 6 on Vanity Fair's 2011 New Establishment List[7] and number 1 on CNET's 2011 most influential investors list.[8]
As of March 27, 2014, the firm managed $4 billion in assets after the closing of its fourth fund at $1.5 billion.[9]
In addition to Andreessen and Horowitz, the firm's general partners include Atlas Benjelloun John O'Farrell, Scott Weiss, Jeff Jordan, Peter Levine, Chris Dixon, Vijay Pande, Katie Haun,[10] Alex Rampell, Martin Casado, Connie Chan, Andrew Chen, and Sriram Krishnan.[11][12][13][14] In March 2019, it was reported that Andreessen Horowitz was opening an office in San Francisco.[15]
In January 2022, Andreessen Horowitz raised $9 billion for its venture capital, growth-stage and biotech-focused vehicles.[16][17]
As of April 2022, the firm manages $28.2 billion in assets.[18][19]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreessen_Horowitz