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Chris Dixon co-founded the startups SiteAdvisor and Hunch before joining Andreessen Horowitz in 2013, where he built and leads a16z crypto, the firm's multi-billion-dollar web3 arm. His investments include Coinbase, Uniswap, and OpenSea, and he ranked first on the Midas List in 2022. His book Read Write Own makes the case for blockchain-based networks as the internet's next architecture.

Andrew Chen led Uber's rider growth team before joining Andreessen Horowitz, where he is a general partner investing in consumer startups, games and AI, including through the firm's Speedrun accelerator. He is the author of The Cold Start Problem, a widely read book on network effects, and has published essays on growth and marketplaces at andrewchen.com for two decades. His newsletter and writing made him one of the best-known thinkers on user acquisition before he ever wrote a check.

Erik Torenberg has spent a decade building the same thing four different ways: Product Hunt, where he was the first employee; Village Global, the seed firm backed by Bezos, Gates, Hoffman and Schmidt that he co-founded in 2017; On Deck, the cohort-based founder community; and Turpentine, the podcast network he started in 2023. In April 2025 Andreessen Horowitz acquired Turpentine and made him a general partner, where he invests and runs the firm's marketing and ecosystem organisations. His co-investments include Figma, Flexport, Applied Intuition and Replit.

Fabrizio Serafini is an investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He focuses on AI application investments. The available pages describe his current role at the firm but do not detail his earlier career, education, or specific deals.

Alisha Litman is an Events Partner for Crypto at Andreessen Horowitz. She has more than 13 years of experience organizing internal and external brand events for audiences of up to 8,000 attendees, working with executives to plan event series that generated over $106M in revenue. Her work has included managing budgets exceeding $20M and leading event teams.

Chase Roberts grew up in rural Oklahoma and studied Finance and Entrepreneurship at the University of Oklahoma, graduating summa cum laude before working briefly at a venture fund-of-funds and an equity research desk. After reading Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma, he cold-emailed Box CEO Aaron Levie and landed a sales development role, spending five years at Box moving from SDR to Senior Manager of Partner Strategy and Alliances. He then became Segment's first business development hire while completing an Evening and Weekend MBA at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, graduating in 2019. That year he joined Vertex Ventures US, where he focused on early-stage B2B startups in data infrastructure and enterprise software, making roughly two investments per year. In October 2022 he led the Seed round in Northflank, a production workload platform, and roughly two years later joined the company as its COO. By 2025 he had moved to Andreessen Horowitz as an AI Operations Partner supporting the Infrastructure team, where he helps portfolio companies build operational and go-to-market capabilities. He is also known for public writing on enterprise software, including an argument that AI will expand software markets rather than shrink them.

Connor Love is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz focused on the American Dynamism practice, investing in defense, aerospace, space, manufacturing, energy, and autonomous systems companies. He previously served as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and as an active duty Captain in the U.S. Army, including a deployment to Northern Iraq in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. Love holds a Master's degree from the University of Oxford, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Emily Bennett is an investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she focuses on pre-seed investments through a16z Speedrun. Before joining a16z, she was a partner at Owl Ventures, leading early-stage investments across EdTech and the future of work. Her operating background spans several media and technology companies: she served as a product marketing manager for news integrity at Meta, as a product manager of Video at the New York Times, and worked on creator product strategy at Spotify. Her career reflects a move from product roles in media and technology into early-stage venture investing.

Emily Westerhold is a partner on the crypto team at Andreessen Horowitz, where she focuses on portfolio-facing finance and operations advisory. Before joining the firm, she served as CFO of VSCO, spending seven years helping build and scale the company, and she continues to serve on its board. Prior to VSCO, she held various finance and accounting roles, beginning her career at PwC. She holds a BS in accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a certified public accountant. She grew up in the Chicago suburbs and now lives in Arizona.

Founder of Jemi, an online streaming platform offering films and TV series across Bollywood, Hollywood, Korean dramas, Bangla cinema, South Indian films, anime, and Western content.

Jason Rosenthal is an Operating Partner at a16z crypto, where he heads the Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) and works with founders and CEOs. He previously served as Vice President of Subscription Services at Google, CEO of Lytro (later acquired by Google), CEO of Ning, and an Operating Executive at Silver Lake Partners, and earlier held roles at HP, Opsware, Netscape, and AOL. He holds a B.A. in history from Pomona College, where he serves on the board of trustees, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Former CEO of Fortify (acquired by HP).

Josh Elman is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz focused on consumer technology and AI investments. He brings over 25 years of experience across product development and investing, including leadership roles at Apple, Robinhood, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, as well as early-stage investments in Discord, Medium, and Musical.ly. His work spans multiple technology cycles from social networking and mobile computing through artificial intelligence.

Lisha Li holds a PhD in machine learning from UC Berkeley and previously worked as a principal at Amplify Partners before founding Rosebud AI.

Robbie Petersen, a junior partner, is a prominent public thinker on agentic commerce who writes analytical essays and connects payments, crypto infrastructure, and AI communities around practical constraints for AI-native commerce.

Samantha Gelt works in venture capital operations, currently serving as the Investment Operations Partner for a16z crypto, where she helps keep the deal process on track. Before Andreessen Horowitz, she was the Operations and Communications Manager at Uncork Capital (also known as SoftTech VC), handling firm operations, communications, platform assistance, and founder community leadership. Earlier in her career she held operations support and coordinator roles across tech startups and the non-profit sector, including positions at Alchemist Accelerator, Trumpet of Salvation, and Piscean Productions. She studied International Relations and Affairs at Oral Roberts University. She is an advocate for VC operations and serves on the board of the VC Platform Organization. Outside of work, she plays piano, visits museums, and spends time with her mini Australian Shepherd.

Zabie Elmgren is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she invests in founders building companies focused on critical infrastructure, public safety, and related areas as part of the firm's American Dynamism practice. She began her venture career on the founding team of Human Capital, which she joined while studying engineering at Harvard, and helped grow it from an engineering recruiting firm into a venture fund with more than $600M in assets under management. During that time the firm worked with companies including Anduril, Applied Intuition, and Verkada. She subsequently became a partner at Index Ventures, where she led early-stage investments and helped launch a future founders initiative. She competed athletically as a rower in the Harvard-Radcliffe 1V boat and as a skier on the Freeride Tour.

Andrew Lee is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He previously founded and led Esper, a machine learning company focused on automating administrative tasks like calendaring and task management. His background includes product roles at Zynga and the White House, as well as founding JamLegend, which was acquired by Zynga.

Andy McCall is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he works with the firm's American Dynamism and AI Apps funds. He has more than 30 years of experience spanning startups to large Fortune 500 companies, with executive leadership roles at Samsara, Cisco, and Meraki. As Chief Revenue Officer at Samsara, he built the revenue team over seven years, growing it from single-digit millions through the company's IPO to over $1 billion in ARR by the time of his departure. He now focuses on investing and working with entrepreneurs. McCall holds a BA from the University of California, Irvine, as well as an MBA and a doctorate from Pepperdine University. He serves on the boards of Skydio, AirGarage, and ChartHop.

Anjney Midha focuses on founder UX—offering uncapped convertible notes and no governance clauses—and brings rare founder/operator experience scaling AI and AR products.

Asaf Ezra is an investing partner on the Infrastructure team at Andreessen Horowitz. Before moving into venture investing, he co-founded Granulate in 2018, a runtime optimization company. He served as CEO of Granulate, continuing in that role after the company became a subsidiary of Intel. At a16z, he focuses on infrastructure investing.

Bill Krause spent 14 years at Hewlett-Packard from 1967 to 1981 in marketing and general management roles, where he helped grow the HP 3000 minicomputer into a billion-dollar product line and later ran HP's personal computer business as general manager of the General Systems Division. In 1981 he joined 3Com as president, became CEO, and served as chairman from 1987 to 1993, leading the company's growth from a venture-funded startup into a global, publicly traded data networking company. Since 1991 he has been president of LWK Ventures, a private advisory and investment firm. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor to The Carlyle Group and as a Board Partner with Andreessen Horowitz. Over his career he has held numerous public company directorships, including at Brocade Communications Systems, Coherent, CommScope Holding, Adobe, Sybase, and Exodus Communications. He was elected Chairman of the American Electronics Association in 1989. Together with his wife L. Gay Krause, he established the Krause Foundation in 1995 to support education and youth development.

Bing Wong is a partner at a16z Perennial, where he leads the private equity fund. Before joining a16z Perennial, he was a Managing Director at Macquarie Asset Management, where he worked across private equity and infrastructure investing and led the investment strategy and process for a newly launched private markets platform. At Macquarie he also served as an Investment Committee member and worked with the Corporate Development team. Earlier, he was at Pantheon, a global private markets investment firm, where he focused on sourcing, evaluating, and underwriting private equity investment transactions. He began his career as a management consultant working with technology clients. The a16z Perennial platform addresses the investment needs of entrepreneurs, leaders, and institutions across venture capital, real assets, multi-generational strategy, and philanthropy.

Chris Schnabl is an investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he backs AI application companies at the seed and Series A stage across the U.S. and Europe. Before joining the firm, he worked on quantitative trading at Optiver, pricing models at QuantCo, and marketplaces at Willhaben, and published research in AI security. Originally from Lower Austria, he studied at the HTL technical college in Wiener Neustadt, where he competed in robotics competitions, then earned a computer science degree at TU Munich. He completed a research internship at UC Berkeley in 2023 and began a master's at the University of Cambridge, earning an M.Phil. with Distinction. He entered venture capital through a16z's scout program, investing in friends' startups before being hired as an investing partner. His investment focus spans AI applications including voice, agentic systems, and computer use, with a thesis centered on the merging of the infrastructure and application layers.

Christian Keil is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he invests through the firm's American Dynamism practice. Before joining the firm, he was an executive at Astranis, a company building and launching geostationary communications satellites, where he led finance, government relations, marketing, recruiting, and other business functions. During his time there, the company scaled from no revenue to more than $1 billion in sales, grew from 50 to 500 employees, and transitioned from an R&D operation to an aerospace-grade factory. He began his career as a management consultant at Deloitte. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley. He is based in San Francisco.

Christine Cheng is an investing partner on the Infrastructure team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The provided pages describe her current role in infrastructure investing but offer limited detail about her prior career arc or specific deals. No education, work history, or investment specifics tied to this individual are stated in the citable sources about the a16z investor.

Connie Chan bridges China and U.S. tech, translating Chinese models like super apps and live video commerce, using a customer-backward approach to champion unconventional bets like Pinterest and Lime.

Daniel Penny is a Deal Partner supporting Andreessen Horowitz's American Dynamism investing team, which focuses on companies serving American interests across aerospace, defense, public safety, education, housing, supply chain, industrials, and manufacturing. He is a former Marine who studied architecture at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech). In December 2024, he was acquitted of a charge of criminally negligent homicide stemming from a 2023 New York City subway incident, a case that drew wide public attention. He was hired by Andreessen Horowitz in early 2025, with partner David Ulevitch noting the firm intended to teach him the business of investing. As a newly hired deal partner, he is still early in his investing career.

Eric Alby is a partner on the a16z Perennial team, where he focuses on diversifying investments, including credit investments, and designing quantitative strategies, including structuring derivatives across multiple asset classes. Before joining a16z, he was a managing director at Macquarie Bank, responsible for the quantitative investment strategies business in the United States. Earlier in his career, he was a managing director at Morgan Stanley, where he most recently led financial engineering and structuring for derivative products within the bank's Institutional Equities Division. He also worked as a senior structurer within Morgan Stanley's CLO and Structured Credit groups in London and Hong Kong. Born in France, he has built a career spanning London, Hong Kong, and the United States. He holds an MS in engineering economic systems and operations research from Stanford University and an engineering degree from École Polytechnique in Paris.

Eva Steinman is an Investing Partner on the Bio + Health team at Andreessen Horowitz, where she concentrates on healthcare technology. Before joining the firm, she worked as an investor at Left Lane Capital, where she backed early-stage founders across the healthcare, technology, and consumer sectors. She started her career at Morgan Stanley, serving as an analyst in the firm's investment banking and trading groups. She holds a BA in Financial Economics from Columbia.

Gio Ahern is a partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz. Before joining the firm, he worked at Bain Capital, where he invested in later-stage healthcare IT, enterprise application, and infrastructure technology businesses. He studied Mathematics and Computer Science at MIT. He grew up in Illinois and remains a Cubs fan. In his spare time he enjoys running.

Guy Wuollet is a General Partner on the a16z crypto investment team, focusing on infrastructure and application-layer investments across crypto. Before joining a16z, he conducted independent research with Protocol Labs on decentralized networking protocols, and he holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford.

Jacqueline Young is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she supports the investor ecosystem for the firm's a16z speedrun program. Her role is positioned within the Speedrun marketing team rather than the investing team. Public profile data associates her education with MIT Sloan School of Management, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of California, Berkeley.

James da Costa is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he invests in B2B software and financial services. Before joining the firm, he founded a Y Combinator-backed fintech startup. Earlier in his career, he worked as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company. He earned an MBA from Stanford University, where he also conducted research in Stanford's Human Centered AI Lab on the economic implications of AI. Originally from the UK, he is based in San Francisco and is a published author.

Jamie Sullivan is a partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz. Before joining the firm, he worked at Leonard Green & Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. He is a CFA charterholder and studied finance and theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated summa cum laude. He is based in San Francisco.

Jeff Bramel is a partner on the Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Perennial team, where he focuses on real assets. He began his investment career as a proprietary options trader and has accumulated roughly 25 years of investment and portfolio management experience. Before joining a16z, he was managing director and head of taxable real assets at UBS Asset Management, which managed approximately $1 trillion in assets including about $150 billion in private real assets. Earlier, he served as head of real assets at Jordan Park, a multi-family office managing around $18 billion in portfolios, and held senior portfolio manager roles in alternative investments at Spring Creek Investment Management, the Sequoia Heritage Fund, and Jasper Ridge Partners. He studied mechanical engineering and economics at Caltech and earned a master's in management science and engineering from Stanford. His work centers on developing real asset investment strategies.

Jéssica Leão is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz on the American Dynamism team, focusing on investments in defense, aerospace, energy, manufacturing, semiconductors, and critical infrastructure. She previously worked as a Foreign Development Executive at Palantir in the government business division.

Joel de la Garza is an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and an Advisor at Socket. He has experience as a founder and operator, with a focus on early-stage investment and security companies.

John Aguillard is an Engineering Fellow on the American Dynamism team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). In this role he works alongside the firm's American Dynamism investing partners, focusing on technology relevant to that thesis. He is active on X, where he comments on topics including American supply chains and engineering. The available page does not detail his prior career, education, or specific investments.

Josh Lu is an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, working with a16z speedrun, where he focuses on studios and the intersection between games and social applications. He spent more than a decade in the games industry before moving into investing, with roles including VP of Product/Publishing/Analytics at Blizzard Entertainment and Head of Product Management at Zynga, and earlier work at PlayDom and Scopely. He later served as Product Group Lead and Product Management Director for Horizon Worlds at Meta, where he oversaw the launch of the company's flagship metaverse product. At Zynga he worked on social games such as Words with Friends, developing expertise in viral growth, core loop design, and retention. He studied economics and diplomacy at Occidental College and entered gaming out of a longstanding personal interest in games. He supports education-focused nonprofits and is active as a board member at several organizations.

Justin Kahl is a partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on later-stage technology companies. Before joining the firm, he worked at Bain Capital, investing in later-stage software and consumer internet businesses. He studied management science and engineering as well as economics at Stanford University, earning a BS with distinction. During his time at Stanford, he also played on the varsity soccer team. He grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Katia Ameri is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she focuses on a16z speedrun Alpha, a fellowship program that invests in highly technical founders at the earliest stages. She founded Tech Week and spearheads the Alpha program. Before joining a16z, she was the first hire on the investment team at Pear VC. She later founded her own startup studio, which raised more than $2M from investors including Pear, Sweet Capital, and GFC. She draws on her own startup experience to help founders move from zero to one. She holds a B.S. from Stanford University and is a native of Los Angeles.

Kenan Saleh built Halo Cars with no-code and sold it to Lyft in 7–9 months, led Lyft Media, and now invests on a games-focused speedrun team after 50+ angel investments.

Lars Dalgaard is an investor and general partner at Dalgaard Family Office, where he manages investment and capital deployment. He has founded and led companies and maintains an investment focus on technology companies.

Lejla Johnsen is an investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, working on the a16z speedrun program. Before joining the firm, she built her career on Wall Street, beginning in investment banking at Goldman Sachs with a focus on financial institutions. She then spent four years on the buy side, investing across industries, capital structures, and company life cycles. Johnsen moved to the United States from Bosnia and Herzegovina at age 16 to attend Deerfield Academy. She studied economics at Harvard, where she also minored in History and Spanish. She describes herself as a techno-optimist.

Margit Wennmachers is a venture capitalist and partner emeritus at Andreessen Horowitz, where she has served as the firm's chief marketer. Born in 1965 and raised in a small village in West Germany, she earned a business degree before emigrating to the United States and moving to San Francisco to join the high-tech communications firm Blanc & Otus. In 1997 she co-founded OutCast Communications (now The OutCast Agency) with Caryn Marooney, building it from two employees into a multimillion-dollar marketing and communications business serving clients such as Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and VMware. She joined Andreessen Horowitz as a partner in 2010, advising the firm and its portfolio companies on marketing, branding, and communications strategy. She has worked in technology marketing for over 25 years and has mentored numerous leaders in the field. She serves on the board of the German Marshall Fund and was named to the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's 100 Women of Influence in 2012.

Melanie Galang is a partner on the venture marketing team at Andreessen Horowitz, where she leads communications and brand strategy for the firm's fintech vertical. Before joining the firm, she served as head of communications at the early-stage venture capital firm Day One Ventures. Earlier in her career, she was a vice president at Moxie Communications Group, where she launched dozens of consumer technology brands and worked with emerging startups on their storytelling. She studied media studies at UC Berkeley. She spent her early years in New York City and is now based in Los Angeles.

Michael Amoako is a product and investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). According to the firm, he is part of the Operations team, with a role that spans both product and investing responsibilities. The available sources provide limited detail beyond his current title and team placement at the firm.

Michael Cialone is an investing partner on the Bio + Health team at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on biotech and supports the firm's life sciences portfolio with financing and business development strategy, planning, and execution. Before joining a16z, he co-led Wilson Sonsini's Life Sciences Business Advisory practice, advising biotech and pharma clients on corporate development, fundraising, and other strategic priorities. Earlier in his career, he held corporate strategy roles at Sumitovant Biopharma and Pfizer. He studied Finance and Pharmacology at the University of Vermont. He is based in Manhattan.

Michel Del Buono is an operating partner and the chief investment officer for a16z Perennial, where he leads the Perennial team. Before Andreessen Horowitz, he was the founding chief investment officer of Jordan Park, a multi-family office managing roughly $18 billion in global multi-asset class portfolios. Earlier he served as a managing director and global strategist at Makena Capital Management, an endowment-style firm managing about $19 billion, overseeing global investment strategy, portfolio construction, and risk management. He previously worked as the sole investment analyst at Scion Capital, a hedge fund known for its use of credit instruments ahead of the global financial crisis. He also spent time as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Co, supporting private equity clients with due diligence and valuation. He holds degrees in engineering and economics from the University of Virginia, Stanford, and Cambridge, and earned a PhD from Stanford.

Mindy Isenstein is a partner at a16z Perennial, where she leads the firm's venture capital fund. Her career has spanned investing, research, entrepreneurship, and institutional finance, with experience across both fund and direct investing. Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, she was a principal at TrueBridge Capital Partners, a venture capital fund-of-funds and direct investment firm, where she worked across the full investment process. Earlier, she served as a vice president at Goldman Sachs in the Equities and Global Investment Research divisions, covering the IT software and hardware industries. She began her career in technology risk consulting and has also been a founder. She holds a BS in Systems and Information Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Nathan Abramoff is an Engineering Fellow on Andreessen Horowitz's American Dynamism team. In this role he contributes technical expertise to the firm's investing work focused on sectors supporting American national interests. The provided source offers limited detail about his prior career or specific investments.

Oliver Hsu is a partner on the American Dynamism investing team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he focuses on emerging computing platforms and applications for the physical world. Before joining a16z, he was an early product hire and chief of staff at Mos, an education financing startup, where he led several business operations functions and launched new products. Earlier, he worked on building developer ecosystems in Africa at Andela. He also served as a fellow investing in seed-stage companies with Susa Ventures. He studied public and international affairs at Princeton University, where he also played rugby.

Owen Colby is an investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he works on the firm's Infrastructure team. His focus is on infrastructure-related investments.

Ryan McEntush is an investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he focuses on companies in the firm's American Dynamism area. Before joining a16z, he worked at Teleport, an infrastructure cybersecurity company, where he started in sales and then moved into operations, leading planning and go-to-market initiatives. He studied Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating early to move to San Francisco. Outside of investing, he writes essays on topics including lunar colonization, Arctic trade routes, industrial policy, and maritime history, which he publishes on his blog, Ryanomics.

Sarah Wang, a growth-stage investor focused on AI, reduces growth plans to the 3–5 essential questions and is a trusted advisor on unit economics, cloud costs and scaling.

Seema Amble is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she has invested since 2019 in early-stage SaaS and B2B fintech companies worldwide. She brings more than a decade of software investing experience, having previously served as a vice president at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, a venture growth fund, and held roles at LeapFrog Investments and Altamont Capital Partners. She started her career at Blackstone.

Shangda Xu is a partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on AI models and infrastructure, AI hardware, and enterprise applications. Before joining the firm, he was an investor at Warburg Pincus, working with later-stage software, tech-enabled services, and industrial companies. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University. He grew up in Connecticut.

Stephenie Zhang is a partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz, where she concentrates on enterprise technology companies. Before joining the firm, she worked at Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm, investing in growth-stage and late-stage technology companies. She studied computer science at MIT, earning a BS and Phi Beta Kappa recognition. Her investing focus centers on enterprise technology at the growth and late stages. She has publicly described partnering with the Typesafe AI team.

Steven Sinofsky is a business and product development executive who spent his career at Microsoft, beginning as a software design engineer in 1989 and rising to senior leadership roles in Office and the Windows division, where he oversaw major releases including Windows 7, Windows 8, and Surface through 2012. He co-authored "One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making" with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti, drawing from his experience leading the Windows team. Sinofsky currently works as an independent investor and advisor, maintains a focus on technology's role in developing markets, and is the author of "Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution."

Troy Kirwin is an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he serves as a Cohort Lead for the a16z speedrun program, which he has been part of since its first batch. He partners with founders at inception and works with them through the zero-to-one stage, investing as a generalist in AI-native companies across enterprise software, infrastructure, and the physical world. He also leads the majority of the firm's investing in Israel. Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, he was a Senior Manager at Unity on the Corporate Strategy and Development team, where he led more than 20 acquisitions, including Parsec and IronSource. He began his career in investment banking at Jefferies, supporting media and technology clients. He holds a B.S. in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

Will Bitsky is an investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he supports the firm's American Dynamism team. In that role he focuses on investments tied to the American Dynamism thesis.

Zak Doric is an Investing Partner in the Bio+Health practice at Andreessen Horowitz, where he works with founders and academics in life sciences innovation. His focus includes the intersection of AI, engineering, and biology applied to disease diagnosis, treatment, and management.

Ben Horowitz ran Loudcloud and Opsware through the dot-com crash and sold the company to HP for $1.6 billion before co-founding Andreessen Horowitz in 2009. He led the firm's investments in companies such as Okta, Databricks, and Nicira, and writes about management with a signature habit of opening chapters with rap lyrics. His two books on leadership and company culture are staples of startup reading lists.

Martin Casado co-founded software-defined networking pioneer Nicira, which VMware bought for $1.26 billion in 2012, before joining Andreessen Horowitz in 2016 to lead its infrastructure practice. He has become one of the firm's most prominent voices on AI, backing companies such as Cursor, World Labs, Thinking Machines and Safe Superintelligence. He holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford and began his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Katherine Boyle co-founded Andreessen Horowitz's American Dynamism practice, which invests in defense, aerospace, manufacturing, energy and other companies tied to the national interest. A former Washington Post reporter, she previously co-led the seed practice at General Catalyst, where she invested in the earliest rounds of Anduril and Vannevar Labs. Her essays on dynamism and seriousness in American institutions have shaped how a generation of founders talks about building for the state.

Jai Ramaswamy leads legal and compliance at Andreessen Horowitz as Chief Legal Officer. He previously served as Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at cLabs (working on Celo), held risk and AML compliance leadership roles at Capital One and Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, and spent over a decade at the U.S. Justice Department, including as Chief of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section. He holds degrees from Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Cambridge University.

Marcus Segal is a Partner at a16z Speedrun at Andreessen Horowitz. He has experience scaling consumer-facing product companies across operations areas including product, people operations, organizational development, and fundraising. He has led a team developing virtual reality adaptations of traditional games at ForeVR Games.

Deborah Embaie is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz's Cultural Leadership Fund (a16z CLF), where she leads work spanning sports, culture, technology, and venture capital. Her role involves connecting athletes, team owners, and sports executives to technology investments through strategic partnerships.

Judene Small is a partner with the Cultural Leadership Fund at Andreessen Horowitz, which connects cultural leaders with technology companies and supports Black builders and creators in the industry. She is co-founder and CEO of CHIENET, a strategy, marketing, and operations company, and co-founder and COO of RootsxWings, a digital media company focused on the stories of young Black girls and Black people aged 13 to 20 who identify as women, non-binary, or agender. She holds bachelor's degrees in Theatre & Dance and Sociology from Trinity College, an MFA in choreography and performance from Mills College, and an MBA from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Sarah Rebello is an Operations Coordinator for the Cultural Leadership Fund at Andreessen Horowitz. Her work focuses on project management, program execution, and stakeholder relationship management.

Stacia Murray is a Partner and CLF Events Lead at Andreessen Horowitz. Her work focuses on global events, experiential marketing, and brand strategy, with prior experience at companies including Salesforce, IBM, and Adobe. Her areas of expertise include event portfolio development, demand generation, and the use of analytics and AI tools for event performance.

Alex Rampell is a serial fintech founder who built shareware as a child, co-founded seven startups including TrialPay (acquired by Visa), bringing hands-on expertise in payment flows, interchange and risk.

Angela Strange, a mechanical engineer and former Google Chrome mobile lead, applies technical expertise to payments and fraud infrastructure, champions every company becoming fintech, and bridges Canadian policy networks.

David Ulevitch is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he leads the firm's American Dynamism practice, focusing on companies that advance the national interest across sectors including national security, aerospace, housing, education, public safety, and logistics. Before venture capital, he founded OpenDNS, a cloud-based security company that Cisco acquired for $635 million, after which he ran Cisco's global security business as Senior Vice President and General Manager. Earlier he founded EveryDNS, which grew into the largest free DNS service before being acquired by Dyn (now Oracle). He holds a BA in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, where he now sits on the Board of Trustees. He and his family divide their time between New York City and Big Sky, Montana.

Jeff Jordan combines hands-on marketplace operating experience leading eBay, PayPal and OpenTable with a structured approach to fragmented supply and network effects, mentoring student-athletes through 6:45 a.m. Stanford pickup basketball.

Jorge Conde co-founded a synthetic biology company with genomics pioneer George Church at Harvard before entering venture capital and regularly hosts podcasts interviewing scientists and CEOs, bridging academia and entrepreneurship.

Julie Yoo, a computer scientist and Kyruus co‑founder/Chief Product Officer turned operator-investor, uses living-the-plumbing experience in provider scheduling and referrals to back healthcare fintech rebuilding claims, payments and routing infrastructure.

Matt Bornstein is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on investments in artificial intelligence and data companies.

Adam Alpert is a co-founder of Pangea.app, a fractional hiring platform. He has worked as a freelance videographer.

Aiden Slavin is Policy Partner at a16z crypto, working to advance the firm's global web3 policy objectives. Before joining, he led crypto policy initiatives across government and industry at the World Economic Forum covering DAOs, decentralized identity, and the metaverse, and previously worked on decentralized ID governance and standards, as well as at the University of Oxford and Columbia University.

Andy Hall is a Research Advisor to the a16z crypto team. He is the Davies Family Professor of Political Economy at Stanford GSB and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he applies large-scale datasets to study the governance of online and offline systems, with a focus on crypto and AI governance and the intersection of business, technology, and politics. He also advises the Wearables Business Group at Meta Platforms.

Anthony Albanese is Managing Partner and COO of a16z crypto, overseeing operating teams spanning legal, regulatory, policy, compliance, network governance and operations, trading operations, security, marketing/comms, and talent, and advising portfolio companies on strategy, hiring, and scaling. He previously served as chief regulatory officer of the NYSE and acting superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, where he issued New York's first BitLicense, and spent over a decade as a securities litigation and corporate governance partner at Weil Gotshal.

Bill Hinman is an Advisory Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a Senior Advisor to the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and a Senior Advisor to the &vest group. From May 2017 through December 2020, he directed the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and earlier worked as a corporate finance partner at Simpson Thacher, where he worked on the IPOs of companies including Alibaba, Facebook, Google, eBay, Square, Agilent, Seagate, and VMware. He holds a B.A. from Michigan State University (1977) and a J.D. from Cornell University Law School (1980), and is a member of the California and New York State Bar Associations.

Erin Price-Wright leverages Palantir Head of Product experience and Oxford/Stanford mathematical training to guide AI and infrastructure companies, arranging strategic compute during GPU shortages and favoring applications-first approaches.

Operating Advisor to The 98; Business Development Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

Michael Lee is co-inventor of Abstract, a quantum-resistant blockchain backed by Founders Fund, and helped incubate and launch ZKsync, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed zero-knowledge protocol for scaling Ethereum. He was previously a Vice President at Activision Blizzard, where he contributed to the launch of titles including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Overwatch II, and Diablo IV, and was an early contributor to Ethereum. Earlier in his career, he worked on the commercialization of Kubernetes through an IPO, supported the Democratic National Committee, and developed television projects for ABC, Comedy Central, and Showtime.

Mike Jones is a Partner on the Executive Talent team, focused on crypto, at Andreessen Horowitz. His previous experience includes roles at Netflix, Facebook, and Google.

Pranav Garimidi is a research partner at a16z crypto focused on mechanism design and algorithmic game theory in blockchain systems, particularly how incentives interact across the blockchain stack. He previously studied computer science at Columbia University.

Scott Walker is a16z's Chief Compliance Officer, responsible for regulatory compliance. He previously served as Senior Special Examiner & Counsel for Blockchain Technology at the SEC, and held roles in private fund regulation and hedge fund strategy including Vice President & Counsel at BlackRock. He is an adjunct professor of securities and blockchain technology at Columbia Law School and a member of the California Bar.

Tim Roughgarden is Head of Research at a16z crypto and a Computer Science professor at Columbia University, having previously spent 15 years on the Stanford CS faculty. His work spans the intersection of computer science and economics, including algorithm design, analysis, and applications.

Tim Sullivan is Editor for crypto at Andreessen Horowitz. He previously worked as an editor at Harvard Business Review, contributing to its books, magazine, and website, and co-wrote two books on popular economics, "The Org" and "The Inner Lives of Markets."

Tom Hollands graduated first in his cohort in theoretical physics at University College London. He has since led marketing at the USV-backed startup Wren, managed creator partnerships at Turpentine, and developed AI products serving more than 10 million users at Xydus.

Advith Chelikani is the founder of Pylon, which provides post-sales workflow management tools for B2B teams across multiple communication platforms.

Ali Yahya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto) focused on crypto investing, working with portfolio companies such as Alchemy, Aleo, Aztec, EigenLayer, Espresso, Gensyn, Jito, LayerZero, Solana, XMTP, and zkSync. He previously was a software engineer and researcher at Google X (Everyday Robot) and Google Brain (a core TensorFlow developer), and studied computer security, distributed systems, and networking at Stanford.

Anish Acharya, a multi-time founder and ex-GM at Credit Karma whose startups were acquired by Google and Credit Karma, uses a product-first approach to distribution, trust, regulation and platform shifts.

Ben Portney is an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz focused on biotechnology venture investment. He has background experience as a molecular biologist and entrepreneur working in biotechnology strategy and business development.

Chris Lyons is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the Cultural Leadership Fund, launched in 2018 to link cultural leaders with emerging technology companies and to support Black builders and creators entering the tech industry. The fund's first vehicle, an $18M fund, was backed entirely by African American limited partners, with all management fees and carry directed to nonprofit organizations aligned with the fund's mission.

Coyne Lloyd is a founder and investor focused on vertical SaaS companies. He was a founding team member of Snapdocs, a company that reached a $1.8 billion valuation, and has spent the last four years building and launching SaaS businesses, including Aloft Appraisal, which raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz, and Fractal, where he helped deploy over $650 million across 145 vertical SaaS ventures. He currently builds at Monarch Migrations and invests across various business sectors.

Daisy Wolf pairs a Yale JD and Stanford MBA with Meta government-and-politics growth leadership, bringing regulatory and Big Tech insight while championing Instacart and Spotify founders building AI-driven consumer-fintech healthcare.

Daren Matsuoka is a partner on a16z's crypto investment team, where he supports deal flow and portfolio companies through data extraction from public blockchains. He previously worked as a Data Scientist at SVB Capital and completed financial training programs at Morgan Stanley and State Street. He holds a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from UC Davis.

David George emphasizes paying fair prices for companies, avoids momentum chasing, uses a customer-pull Post-it to vet demand, integrates public-market perspectives, and is a scale partner for long-runway compounders.

David Haber combines fintech founder/CEO and Goldman Sachs strategy experience with a New York super-connector reputation, focusing on B2B software that applies fintech horizontally to transform manual processes across industries.

Eddy Lazzarin is a General Partner at a16z crypto, focusing on the firm's portfolio and token strategy and on how the firm identifies, evaluates, and supports new crypto networks and companies. He was previously a software engineer at Netflix and a data engineer at Facebook, and holds a B.A. in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.

Liz Harkavy is a partner on the a16z crypto investment team focused on web 2.5 / picks-and-shovels and decentralized infrastructure. She was previously a founding engineer at Corsali (now Vana), and earlier worked at Facebook and JPL; she holds bachelor's degrees in Physics and Computer Science and a master's in Computer Science from MIT.

Guillaume Roux-Romestaing is the founder of a stealth startup and is currently scaling a faith app, Heysamaritan, while providing go-to-market advisory. He invests in and advises early-stage ventures through a16z Scout and 181 Angels, with a focus on European founders relocating to the United States. He previously held growth and sales roles at Sauna by Wordware and 11x.ai, and studied geopolitics and defense at Sciences Po.

Jay Rughani is an Investing Partner focused on health technology at Andreessen Horowitz. He works with a team of former operators investing across pre-seed through growth stages in healthcare and life sciences companies, including Benchling, Freenome, Insitro, and others.

Jennifer Li helps founders turn complex infrastructure and data into simple developer interfaces, from product leadership at Solvvy and AppDynamics, research that shaped her firm's data thinking, and open-source commercialization.

Jonathan Lai, a former Riot, Tencent and Dots game/product leader, scaled games in China and applies time-to-fun and retention-loop design to make consumer, enterprise, fintech products socially engaging.

Justine Moore operates as a venture twin with sister Olivia—co-branding and co-authoring content—and focuses on AI-native consumer products and prosumer creators while publicly documenting consumer AI trends.

Kevin Nishioka is an Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on tax and general partner finance matters. He has extensive experience in tax consulting, tax controversy, and transactional assistance for institutional investors. Previously, he built and led professional teams delivering tax and financial advisory services.

Marty Kausas is co-founder and CEO of Pylon. He began programming in middle school, developed software skills through high school robotics, and gained product-building experience via collegiate hackathons.

Megan Holston-Alexander is a Kauffman Fellow, a member of Class 26 of the two-year venture capital leadership program run by Kauffman Fellows. The program's member directory lists them at Andreessen Horowitz in United States.

Nadav Lidor founded Weav, a fintech infrastructure company acquired by Brex, where he subsequently led Brex Banking as a business unit.

Noah Levine blends data-driven crypto and fintech expertise from leading on-chain strategy at Visa and heading RTFKT analytics pre-Nike acquisition, and publishes research on crypto reshaping commerce and merchant infrastructure.

Olivia Moore tests dozens of AI apps weekly, turns findings into practical frameworks and rankings for founders, and—with twin sister Justine—publicly explains consumer AI trends via content, newsletters, and podcasts.

Software engineer and startup founder with expertise in developer tools and infrastructure. Founded Stream Club, a web browser streaming platform that raised $2.1M and was acquired by Mux in 2021. Currently building Browserbase, a web browser for AI agents and applications.

Peter Levine is an engineer-turned-exec-turned-investor who scaled Veritas to multi-billion revenue, led XenSource as CEO, focuses on enterprise infrastructure, and builds frameworks to commercialize open source for an edge-mobile future.

Rajiv Ayyangar is CEO at Product Hunt. He previously served as CEO and co-founder of Tandem, a remote team collaboration platform; earlier roles include product manager at Delectable and data scientist at Aviate (acquired by Yahoo). He holds a degree in Bioengineering from Princeton.

Bob Swan served as CEO of Intel from 2019 to 2021, where he oversaw the company's strategic transformation into a multi-architecture XPU company and held the role of CFO beginning in 2016. Prior to Intel, he spent nine years as CFO of eBay, including during the PayPal spin-off, and held CFO positions at Electronic Data Systems and TRW. Swan currently serves as an Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and holds board seats at Nike, Micron, ADP, Flexport, and other companies.

Spencer Rascoff, founder of Hotwire, Zillow and Pacaso, runs a fund/studio that directly incubates companies and builds deal flow and mentorship through Office Hours podcast on crisis leadership and fundraising.

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and founder of a16z Bio+Health; former Stanford professor of structural biology and computer science and founder of Folding@Home and Globavir Biosciences, with expertise in computational biology and ML applications in health.

Vineeta Agarwala pairs active clinical work as a board-certified physician with an MD and PhD from Harvard/MIT and product leadership at Flatiron Health, combining patient-care insight and computational biology experience.

Yoko Hongyu Li blends roles as cartoonist, engineer, and product manager—using her public cartoonist persona stuffyokodraws to explain complex technical and product ideas visually, uncommon among infrastructure and AI investors.

Zane Lackey leverages hands-on hacking, CISO experience at Etsy and founder experience building Signal Sciences to back founders embedding security into developer workflows and pursuing AI-native, ground-up security.