Andreessen Horowitz

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Aiden Slavin is Policy Partner at a16z crypto, where he works on the firm's global web3 policy objectives. Before joining the firm, he led crypto policy initiatives across government and industry at the World Economic Forum, covering DAOs, decentralized ID, and the metaverse, and earlier worked on decentralized ID governance and standards. He was previously affiliated with the University of Oxford and Columbia University.

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.

Bob Cronin is an investment banker with about 25 years of experience advising emerging growth technology companies on M&A, private capital raising, and strategic advisory. He was previously a Managing Director at Bowen Advisors, a Boston technology investment banking firm covering enterprise information management software including advanced analytics, business intelligence, enterprise content management, and data integration and management. Earlier he spent more than 15 years at Stonebridge Associates, LLC as a founder and Senior Managing Director leading its technology practice.

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.

Constance Scholten left law school at 19 to start her first company, which she later sold to Van Beuningen & Partners. She then served as Commercial Director at TravelBird and founded the personal bonding app Camarilla, which was acquired by HR-tech company Appical in 2017. She was named among the Netherlands' 50 most inspiring female tech entrepreneurs in 2016 and 2017.

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.

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.

Software industry executive who served as CEO of Fortify Software and Covalent, and COO at The Vantive, with a career spanning sales and senior leadership roles starting at Sybase.

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.

Registered nurse with a BSN from Boston College who worked in cardiac intensive care and as a travel nurse before pursuing nursing leadership. Currently enrolled in a dual MPH/MBA program at Johns Hopkins.

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

Michael Chan is an Events Partner for Crypto at Andreessen Horowitz with over 13 years of experience in event planning. He has organized internal and external brand events for as many as 8,000 attendees, managed budgets exceeding $20 million, and worked with executives on event series that generated more than $106 million in revenue.

Michael Lee is a Partner on the Executive Talent team focused on crypto at Andreessen Horowitz. His prior experience includes roles at Netflix, Facebook, and Google.

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.

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.

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.

Ali Yahya leverages Google Brain and Google X robotics to invest in crypto infrastructure builders, promoting a network flywheel model and urging founders to build coordination engines with 30-year horizons.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Chief Technology Officer at a16z crypto, having joined the firm in 2019 as a data scientist and investing partner before becoming Head of Engineering in 2021. He leads the firm's engineering, data science, research, and security teams. Prior to a16z, he held data science and engineering roles at Facebook and Netflix.

Elizabeth Harkavy focuses on web2.5 infrastructure bridging legacy web2 and on-chain systems, bringing founding‑engineer experience at Corsali, NASA JPL reinforcement‑learning research, MIT degrees, and hands‑on mentorship.

Frank Chen is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz with a background in product and user experience design. His focus areas include venture capital, artificial intelligence and machine learning, enterprise software, and product development.

Guy Wuollet leverages hands-on Protocol Labs research to invest in foundational crypto infrastructure—wallets, identity, liquidity—advocates DePIN to tokenize telecoms, energy, transportation, and explores AI–crypto agentic commerce.

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.

Joe Morrissey, an ex-operator who ran revenue and international expansion at MySQL and MongoDB, now advises and angels in data/AI, bringing product-led and enterprise-sales expertise across EMEA/APAC.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Aditya Mehta previously built and sold recommender systems to financial institutions, worked operationally in e-commerce, and founded a talent marketplace startup focused on recommendation-based matching.

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.

Anish Agrawal is co-founder and CEO of Chatter, a Y Combinator S23 company. He studied computer science and robotics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Anthony Albanese is Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer of a16z crypto, where he oversees operating teams spanning legal, regulatory, policy, compliance, network governance and operations, trading operations, security, marketing/comms, and talent, and advises portfolio companies on strategy, hiring, and scaling. He previously served as chief regulatory officer of the New York Stock Exchange and as 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 partner at Weil Gotshal specializing in securities litigation and corporate governance. He holds a JD from St. John's University School of Law and a BA from Union College, and clerked for Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa on the New York State Court of Appeals.

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.

Brian MacCarthy founded and leads Booz Allen Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Booz Allen, which he launched in 2022 to invest in early-stage dual-use startups. Under his direction the fund grew from $100 million to $300 million and made 18 investments across AI, cyber, defense tech, quantum, space, and reindustrialization. Earlier at Booz Allen he created the Helix Center for Innovation, ran a Department of Defense hackathon series, and led the firm's Tech Scouting team from 2015; he holds a bachelor's degree in political science and international studies from James Madison University.

Founded Saxovent in 1997 together with partners, directly after completing his mechanical engineering studies.

Emma Leavy holds an MBA with a Certificate in Sustainable Investing from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and a postgraduate degree in Peace & Conflict Studies from the University of St. Andrews, where she was a fully funded R&A Ransome Scholar. She began her career as a management consultant at the McChrystal Group and later led domestic financial inclusion programming at the Clinton Global Initiative and served as Director of Grant Programs at Comic Relief, where she oversaw a large social impact investment portfolio. During her MBA she interned at Gratitude Railroad and ZX Ventures and held roles with Haas-affiliated impact and ESG investment funds.

Feross Aboukhadijeh is the founder and CEO of Socket, a technology company that builds security infrastructure for the internet. Socket's software is used by businesses ranging from startups to public companies, and the company's stated mission is to improve security and privacy on the web.

Jamie Turner is Co-Founder and CEO of Convex, working in distributed systems, scale, web technology, and application development, primarily in startups. Turner also serves as a scout and angel investor at Andreessen Horowitz and currently focuses on leadership roles.

Founder of nunu.ai, which develops multi-modal AI agents for game testing, simulation, and player cooperation.

Khalid focuses on identifying investment opportunities and scaling founders at Raed. He is Co-Founder and Chairman of ClearGrid and Managing Director and Vice Chairman of East40 Holding.

After a decade at Google and Meta leading trust-and-safety, building privacy APIs to counter misinformation, Lauren Wagner uses research-heavy social web-stack mapping to back founders reimagining privacy and decentralized identity.

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.

Mo Mahallawy is cofounder and CTO of Shepherd.

Mohamed Eisimat Mohamed is founder and CEO of Smart Bricks, an applied AI lab developing autonomous systems for sourcing, underwriting, and managing real estate and infrastructure investments. He previously held roles in strategy and investment at Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company, and earlier worked in investing at Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Atomico, and Greycroft. Mohamed holds degrees from the University of Oxford, Wharton School, and London Business School, serves as a scout for the Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun Fund, and advises the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund.

Pranav Garimidi is a research partner at a16z crypto, where he studies mechanism design and algorithmic game theory in the context of blockchain systems, with a focus on how incentives interact across the blockchain stack. He previously studied at Columbia University, graduating with a degree in Computer Science.

Ravish Agrawal is co-founder and CEO of Able, having previously held a role at Udacity. His background includes growth marketing experience.

Rotem Weiss is the founder and CEO of Tavily, a real-time search engine intended to provide contextual information to large language models. He also created the open-source projects GPT-Researcher and GPT-Newspaper, and previously co-founded The Bulletin, an app aggregating campus events at US universities. Earlier in his career, he worked as a data scientist at Talenya, an AI recruitment technology company later acquired by Paycor Inc.

Scott Walker is the Chief Compliance Officer at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), overseeing the firm's regulatory compliance. He previously worked at the SEC as Senior Special Examiner & Counsel for Blockchain Technology, co-chairing the Digital Assets working group in the Division of Examinations, and held roles in the Division of Corporation Finance and the Investment Adviser & Investment Company Program. Before regulatory work he was Vice President & Counsel at BlackRock, and he teaches securities and blockchain technology as an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School.

Sherwood Callaway is a software engineer with over ten years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, and observability engineering at VC-backed companies including Crunchbase and Brex. He is founder and CEO of Sazabi, an observability platform.

Tim Roughgarden is Head of Research at a16z crypto and a professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. Before Columbia, he taught computer science at Stanford for 15 years, after earning a PhD at Cornell and completing a postdoc at UC Berkeley. His work spans the intersection of computer science and economics, including the design, analysis, and limitations of algorithms.

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.

Yana Welinder founded Kraftful (acquired by Amplitude) and previously held product leadership roles at multiple technology companies, including as an early product manager at a high-growth unicorn and heading product teams working on products with millions of users.

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.

Daren Matsuoka is a partner on the crypto investment team at a16z, where he works with deal flow and portfolio companies using data derived from public blockchains. He was previously a Data Scientist at SVB Capital, where he built and managed a data and analytics platform, and earlier completed financial training programs at Morgan Stanley and State Street. He earned a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from UC Davis.

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.

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.

Sherman Leung is a venture investor at Andreessen Horowitz focused on biology and health, and an emergency medicine resident physician at Stanford. He has previously worked as a software engineer, AI researcher, and product manager. His investment focus includes healthcare technology applications serving underserved patient populations.