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Kleiner Perkins announces $2 billion in fresh capital, showing that established firms can still raise large sums
Many VC firms are struggling to attract new capital from their own backers amid a tepid IPO environment. But established, brand-name firms are still able to raise large funds. On…
a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to AI characters over calls. The feature currently supports multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese…
k-ID wins $45M to help game devs speedrun the child safety compliance puzzle
k-ID’s platform makes it easy for game devs to comply with child safety and data privacy regulations.
Brex’s compliance head has left the fintech startup to join Andreessen Horowitz as a partner
Ali Rathod-Papier has stepped down from her role as global head of compliance at corporate card expense management startup Brex to join venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as a partner…
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has raised $6 billion in a new funding round, it said today, as Musk shores up capital to aggressively compete with rivals including OpenAI, Microsoft…
a16z’s American Dynamism team launches program to introduce technical minds to VC
Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism fund has established a new fellowship program aimed at introducing top engineers and technologists to venture investing, a move that could help the firm identify less…
Wiz raises $1B at a $12B valuation to expand its cloud security platform through acquisitions
Wiz, the buzzy startup building an all-in-one cloud security platform, is on an acquisition march to expand its business quickly en route to an IPO. Now, it has closed a…
Here’s a lab-grown diamond startup that’s attracted a16z’s attention
Throughout hip-hop’s long history, jewelry has served as an important vehicle for artists to convey their ideas and affluence, or simply to dazzle onlookers. Diamonds, in particular, serve as an…
Post News, the a16z-funded Twitter alternative, is shutting down
Post was backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator, but the platform never disclosed how much it raised.
a16z promotes Jennifer Li to help lead the new $1.25B Infrastructure fund
Silicon Valley powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just promoted Jennifer Li to general partner to help lead infrastructure investments.
Cape dials up $61M from a16z and more for mobile service that doesn’t use personal data
“You can’t leak or sell what you don’t have,” according to the company’s website.
a16z-backed Rewind pivots to build AI-powered pendant to record your conversations
a16z-backed Rewind is now pivoting to build AI-powered meeting suit along with a hardware product to record your conversations.
What is worth $11 billion and wants to go to Mars to collect rocks? NASA’s mission to Mars to collect rocks that was expected to…
Kiki World, a beauty brand that uses web3 for customer co-creation and ownership, raises $7M from a16z
If you think that choosing a nail polish color or which ingredients go into your face cream can’t have anything to do with blockchain, think again. Kiki World, a beauty…
Wonderschool, a startup that provides software and support to help individuals and local governments spin up childcare businesses, has acquired EarlyDay, which operates an early…
Apex Space just moved one step closer to its goal of upending satellite bus manufacturing, with the startup announcing on Tuesday that its first vehicle is healthy on orbit. The…
Inngest, a startup that makes it easier for developers to build and manage serverless backends, today announced that it has raised a $6.1 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz,…
UK insurtech Hyperexponential raises $73M and eyes US expansion
Hyperexponential, a London-based insurance technology (insurtech) startup that serves the property-casualty (P&C) insurance industry with “decision intelligence” for pricing, has raised $73 million in a Series B equity round of…
Quora is back at it, raising funding for the first time in nearly seven years. The questions and answers website nabbed $75 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which will be…
Countdown Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on hard tech industrial startups, will shut down by the end of March and return uninvested capital, firm founder and solo general…
a16z backs London-based crypto startup Pimlico as it ramps up UK focus
Upon opening its first overseas office in London last Thursday, a16z made its first U.K. investment announcement today. The venture capital firm has led a $4.2 million seed round in…
When was the last time Marc Andreessen talked to a poor person?
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen posted a manifesto on the a16z website, calling for “techno-optimism” in a frenzied, 5,000-word blog post that somehow manages to re-invent Reaganomics, propose the colonization of…
Backed by a16z, Relay races to market with Zapier in its crosshairs
A new automation startup is setting out to eat Zapier’s lunch, formally launching to the public today after an extended period in beta. Relay, as the company is called, touts…
Video editing startup Captions launches a dubbing app, Lipdub, with support for 28 languages
Captions, an AI-powered video editing startup, has launched a new app called Lipdub for translating clips into 28 languages. Lipdub is available in the App Store for free and supports…
a16z-backed Castelion wants to mass-produce defense hardware, starting with hypersonics
One builds weapons in the hope that they are not used. Thus goes the central premise of deterrence theory, which says it is the credible threat of aggression — not…
Okta acquires a16z-backed password manager Uno to develop a personal tier
Okta, the U.S.-based identity management giant, announced today that it has acquired password management app, Uno. The company said that Uno’s team will help speed up the public launch of…
Nx, a startup developing tooling to make it simpler for software dev teams to work within a single code repository, today closed a $16 million Series A round with participation…
Bastion launched a suite of products so companies can integrate web3 infrastructure into their existing enterprise technologies.
a16z’s Arianna Simpson believes crypto will be just fine, thank you for asking
If the crypto investment craze of 2021 could be defined with one investor name, that would be Andreessen Horowitz — or a16z for short. The well-known VC firm has raised over…
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