Company
Andreessen Horowitz
American venture capital firm
Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z) is an American privately-held venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States. It was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
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“Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z) is an American privately-held venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.”
Named in 3 pieces
Safety & Security
The Signal Brief: A Council, a Confession, and a Five-Billion-Dollar Bet
Three frontier-lab chief executives told the UN Security Council their industry needs oversight, and hours later a former Anthropic pair priced a self-improving AI startup at $5 billion anyway.
Web3 × AI
The Crypto-AI Talent Corridor
Rob Witoff's July 2026 promotion to Coinbase chief technology officer arrived alongside a workforce cut built around AI tooling, while a16z crypto's Sriram Krishnan cycled from Web3 investing into the White House's top AI policy seat, tracing a talent corridor that now runs in both directions.
Policy & Regulation
Washington's Preemption Fight
A White House pushing federal preemption of state AI laws, a Senate that rejected a blanket moratorium 99 to 1, and rival super PACs from Anthropic and OpenAI-adjacent investors turned 2026 into the year AI policy split labs into camps.