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Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The firm specializes in investing across various stages of company growth, including seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage companies. It primarily focuses on the technology sector, particularly software businesses, and has a strong interest in areas such as cloud computing, enterprise software, consumer and business Internet, and mobile applications. Additionally, Andreessen Horowitz explores investments at the intersection of computer science and life sciences, with specific attention to digital therapeutics and computational medicine. The firm typically invests amounts ranging from $50,000 to $50 million, targeting innovative technology start-ups, especially those located in Silicon Valley.

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Matt Bornstein

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Katherine Boyle

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Martin Casado

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Connie Chan

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Frank Chen

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Jorge Conde

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Chris Dixon

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Ben Horowitz

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Jeffrey Jordan

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Scott Kupor

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Peter Lauten

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Chris Lyons

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Daren Matsuoka

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Kim Milosevich

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Olivia Moore

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John O'Farrell

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Alex Rampell

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Kristina Shen

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Sumeet Singh

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Anne Lee Skates

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Angela Strange

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Jeff Stump

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Sarah Wang

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Past deals in Blockchain

OnChain Studios

Series A in 2022
OnChain Studios is a software company that intends to bring ownership to interactive experiences. The company was founded in 2021 by Will Weinraub and is headquartered in Miami Shores, Florida, United States.

Alchemy

Series C in 2022
Alchemy Insights, Inc. develops a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that caters to hedge funds and financial institutions. Its platform provides data, exploratory tools, and proprietary insights on all parts of the blockchain, including on-chain data, market data, and community activity. The Alchemy platform enables companies to analyze the blockchain and ecosystem data. Its advance machine learning allows exchanges to identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain to inform sales, security, and strategy. Alchemy Insights, Inc. was formerly known as Nikil, Inc. Alchemy Insights, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Aleo

Series B in 2022
Aleo is building the world's leading developer platform for enabling absolute privacy on blockchains. With their vocal advocacy for privacy tech in the blockchain ecosystem, they are playing a major part in mainstream awareness and industry adoption of privacy-preserving technologies. they are proud to offer a platform of services that exemplify privacy.

Nansen

Series B in 2021
Nansen Limited develops software as a service blockchain analytics tool. It offers to combine on chain data with database. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Iron Fish

Series A in 2021
Iron Fish is a novel cryptocurrency focused on privacy and accessibility. Iron Fish is a Layer 1 blockchain that provides the strongest privacy guarantees on every single transaction.

Alchemy

Series C in 2021
Alchemy Insights, Inc. develops a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that caters to hedge funds and financial institutions. Its platform provides data, exploratory tools, and proprietary insights on all parts of the blockchain, including on-chain data, market data, and community activity. The Alchemy platform enables companies to analyze the blockchain and ecosystem data. Its advance machine learning allows exchanges to identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain to inform sales, security, and strategy. Alchemy Insights, Inc. was formerly known as Nikil, Inc. Alchemy Insights, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

OnChain Studios

Seed Round in 2021
OnChain Studios is a software company that intends to bring ownership to interactive experiences. The company was founded in 2021 by Will Weinraub and is headquartered in Miami Shores, Florida, United States.

Forta

Venture Round in 2021
Forta is a neat project that comes at an interesting point for the larger blockchain community. When bitcoin came to market, it attracted interest as a potential medium of exchange, or perhaps a store of value. The latter use case wound up being the key bitcoin value offering. But while bitcoin was maturing, other blockchains were built that featured more native programmability, allowing developers around the world to leverage smart (self-executing) contracts for a host of use cases.

Angle Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Angle Protocol focus on offering stablecoins pegged to currencies like the euro as an alternative to dollar-centric tokens.

Dapper Labs

Series D in 2021
Dapper Labs Inc. develops blockchain-based cryptokitties video games. The company offers consumer blockchain collectible cats games for entertainment brands. Dapper Labs Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Valora

Series A in 2021
Valora is a mobile-first crypto wallet native to the Celo Platform, available on both iOS and Android devices. Valora makes blockchain useful and accessible even on the most basic smartphones, enabling 6 billion smartphone users worldwide to reliably save, send, and spend crypto as easily as sending a text message.

Valora

Series A in 2021
Valora is a mobile-first crypto wallet native to the Celo Platform, available on both iOS and Android devices. Valora makes blockchain useful and accessible even on the most basic smartphones, enabling 6 billion smartphone users worldwide to reliably save, send, and spend crypto as easily as sending a text message.

Chia Network

Series D in 2021
Chia Network Inc. develops a blockchain-based transaction and cryptocurrency platform. It provides Chialisp, a smart transaction programming language that unlocks the security, transparency, and ease of use of cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Bitski

Series A in 2021
Bitski (currently in beta) allows anyone to build user-friendly and cross-platform Ethereum apps. Using Bitski, a user can build a decentralized app or game that feels just as easy to use as a standard app.

Anchorage

Series C in 2021
Anchorage is the first crypto-native Qualified Custodian for institutional investors, offering a comprehensive platform complete with trading, staking, and governance. Co-founded by security engineers from Square and Docker, Anchorage has raised $57 million in funding from such leading investors as Visa and Andreessen Horowitz, and counts as clients many of crypto’s largest and best-known funds, including Blockchain Capital, BlockTower, Polychain, and Paradigm. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Celo

Venture Round in 2021
Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Our mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all.

Matter Labs

Series A in 2021
Matter Labs is driven by a mission to accelerate the mass adoption of public blockchains. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.

NEAR

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
NEAR Protocol is a scalable blockchain designed to provide the performance and user experience necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. Unlike other next generation blockchains, this network has been built from the ground up to be the easiest in the world for both developers and their end users while still providing the scalability necessary to serve those users.

Anchorage

Series B in 2019
Anchorage is the first crypto-native Qualified Custodian for institutional investors, offering a comprehensive platform complete with trading, staking, and governance. Co-founded by security engineers from Square and Docker, Anchorage has raised $57 million in funding from such leading investors as Visa and Andreessen Horowitz, and counts as clients many of crypto’s largest and best-known funds, including Blockchain Capital, BlockTower, Polychain, and Paradigm. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Ava Labs

Series A in 2019
AVA Labs makes it simple to launch finance applications using blockchain technology–with highly scalable and efficient networks, customizable public and private blockchains, the capability to create any digital asset, and more. We are empowering people to build an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance.

Anchorage

Series A in 2019
Anchorage is the first crypto-native Qualified Custodian for institutional investors, offering a comprehensive platform complete with trading, staking, and governance. Co-founded by security engineers from Square and Docker, Anchorage has raised $57 million in funding from such leading investors as Visa and Andreessen Horowitz, and counts as clients many of crypto’s largest and best-known funds, including Blockchain Capital, BlockTower, Polychain, and Paradigm. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MakerDAO

Venture Round in 2018
MakerDAO develops and operates a smart contract platform on Ethereum blockchain that backs and stabilizes the value of Dai through collateralized debt positions (CDPs), autonomous feedback mechanisms, and appropriately incentivized external actors. It develops the Dai stablecoin system designed to issue a low volatile collateral-backed cryptocurrency, Dai. It also offers MKR, a token for utility, governance, and recapitalization resource of the Maker system. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Santa Cruz, California with additional offices in Copenhagen, Denmark.

DFINITY

Venture Round in 2018
Dfinity Beacon Fund invests early in strong teams who can launch and grow the open internet services and decentralized financial systems of the future. The fund is managed by Polychain Capital with additional backing from Andreessen Horowitz and the DFINITY Foundation.

Harbor

Corporate Round in 2018
Harbor is reengineering private securities with blockchain technology to help usher in a new wave of tokenized securities backed by real-world assets, such as real estate, company equity, investment funds, and fine art. The Harbor platform, powered by its compliance protocol, is the first to ensure tokenized securities comply with existing securities laws on every trade, everywhere across the globe.

Harbor

Venture Round in 2018
Harbor is reengineering private securities with blockchain technology to help usher in a new wave of tokenized securities backed by real-world assets, such as real estate, company equity, investment funds, and fine art. The Harbor platform, powered by its compliance protocol, is the first to ensure tokenized securities comply with existing securities laws on every trade, everywhere across the globe.

Keep

Venture Round in 2018
Keep helps contracts harness the full power of the public blockchain by enabling deep interactivity with private data. It is an off-chain container for private data. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in George Town, Midland.

Chia Network

Seed Round in 2018
Chia Network Inc. develops a blockchain-based transaction and cryptocurrency platform. It provides Chialisp, a smart transaction programming language that unlocks the security, transparency, and ease of use of cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Dapper Labs

Series A in 2018
Dapper Labs Inc. develops blockchain-based cryptokitties video games. The company offers consumer blockchain collectible cats games for entertainment brands. Dapper Labs Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

DFINITY

Venture Round in 2018
Dfinity Beacon Fund invests early in strong teams who can launch and grow the open internet services and decentralized financial systems of the future. The fund is managed by Polychain Capital with additional backing from Andreessen Horowitz and the DFINITY Foundation.

BlockTower Capital

Venture Round in 2018
BlockTower Capital DeFi Fund is a venture capital fund managed by BlockTower Capital. The fund is based in Stamford, Connecticut. The fund invests in cryptocurrency and decentralized finance sector.

MakerDAO

Venture Round in 2017
MakerDAO develops and operates a smart contract platform on Ethereum blockchain that backs and stabilizes the value of Dai through collateralized debt positions (CDPs), autonomous feedback mechanisms, and appropriately incentivized external actors. It develops the Dai stablecoin system designed to issue a low volatile collateral-backed cryptocurrency, Dai. It also offers MKR, a token for utility, governance, and recapitalization resource of the Maker system. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Santa Cruz, California with additional offices in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Axoni

Series A in 2016
Axoni serves the world’s largest financial institutions and capital markets service providers with full-stack blockchain solutions. It is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Axoni’s product offerings include distributed ledger technology deployments, bespoke smart contract development, and analytics tools. The company was founded in 2013 by a team of distributed ledger technology entrepreneurs and cryptography specialists.

OpenBazaar

Venture Round in 2016
OpenBazaar is a new way to trade online. By running a program on your computer, you can connect directly to other users in the OpenBazaar network and trade with them. This network isn't controlled by a company, it's a decentralized network that isn't run by any organization at all. This means there are no mandatory fees to pay, and that your trade is censorship-resistant. OpenBazaar uses Bitcoin, a digital currency that is also cheap to use, decentralized, and censorship-resistant. This project is open source, which means the code is publicly available, can be reviewed, and anyone can join the project and suggest changes.

Polychain

Seed Round in 2016
The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using software. Polychain Capital is committed to exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

Bracket Computing

Series C in 2015
Bracket Computing Inc. develops workload isolation software designed to address challenges and enable enterprises to run workloads securely in hybrid cloud environments with a single set of advanced IT security controls. It offers crypto-enforced micro-segmentation that includes always-on encryption of data at rest and in motion with customer-controlled keys, data and runtime integrity monitoring, and auditability and forensics capabilities that capture memory at the time of breach. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Blockspring

Seed Round in 2015
Blockspring lets you build visualizations from the most innovative blocks developed by engineers within your organization, and from around the world.

OpenBazaar

Seed Round in 2015
OpenBazaar is a new way to trade online. By running a program on your computer, you can connect directly to other users in the OpenBazaar network and trade with them. This network isn't controlled by a company, it's a decentralized network that isn't run by any organization at all. This means there are no mandatory fees to pay, and that your trade is censorship-resistant. OpenBazaar uses Bitcoin, a digital currency that is also cheap to use, decentralized, and censorship-resistant. This project is open source, which means the code is publicly available, can be reviewed, and anyone can join the project and suggest changes.

CipherCloud

Series B in 2014
CipherCloud, the leader in cloud information protection, enables organizations to securely adopt cloud applications by overcoming data privacy, residency, security, and regulatory compliance risks. CipherCloud delivers an open platform with comprehensive security controls, including AES 256-bit encryption, tokenization, data loss prevention, malware detection and visibility tools. CipherCloud’s ground breaking technology protects sensitive information in real time, before it is sent to the cloud, while preserving application usability and functionality.

TradeBlock

Seed Round in 2014
TradeBlock offers financial institutions with a range of execution and analysis tools for digital currency markets. The company acts as a global source of data which shares analyses on market data relating to cryptocurrencies, trading, regulations, mining, protocol updates, block chain analysis, and economic developments. TradeBlock was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, United States.

Bracket Computing

Series B in 2014
Bracket Computing Inc. develops workload isolation software designed to address challenges and enable enterprises to run workloads securely in hybrid cloud environments with a single set of advanced IT security controls. It offers crypto-enforced micro-segmentation that includes always-on encryption of data at rest and in motion with customer-controlled keys, data and runtime integrity monitoring, and auditability and forensics capabilities that capture memory at the time of breach. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Coinbase

Series B in 2013
Coinbase is an online platform that allows merchants, consumers, and traders to transact with digital currency. It allows its users to create their own bitcoin wallets and start buying or selling bitcoins by connecting with their bank accounts. In addition, it provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support many highly-trafficked websites on the internet. Coinbase was launched in 2012 with a mission to create an open financial system for the world. It is operated from San Francisco, California.

CipherCloud

Series A in 2012
CipherCloud, the leader in cloud information protection, enables organizations to securely adopt cloud applications by overcoming data privacy, residency, security, and regulatory compliance risks. CipherCloud delivers an open platform with comprehensive security controls, including AES 256-bit encryption, tokenization, data loss prevention, malware detection and visibility tools. CipherCloud’s ground breaking technology protects sensitive information in real time, before it is sent to the cloud, while preserving application usability and functionality.

CipherCloud

Seed Round in 2011
CipherCloud, the leader in cloud information protection, enables organizations to securely adopt cloud applications by overcoming data privacy, residency, security, and regulatory compliance risks. CipherCloud delivers an open platform with comprehensive security controls, including AES 256-bit encryption, tokenization, data loss prevention, malware detection and visibility tools. CipherCloud’s ground breaking technology protects sensitive information in real time, before it is sent to the cloud, while preserving application usability and functionality.