Andreessen Horowitz

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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 co-leads an American Dynamism practice focused on defense, energy and critical infrastructure, and leverages founder-to-executive OpenDNS experience—including running a $2.4B security business—to mentor technical founders in regulated sectors.

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.

Macy Mills is Head of Go-to-Market at a16z speedrun, a division of Andreessen Horowitz. She has experience in business development across multiple revenue streams, with particular focus on product and partnership initiatives. Her background includes managing global programs from conception through execution and leading cross-functional teams.

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.