

a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building. Venture capital firm typically invest in business opportunities that are considered high risk. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent top media and marketing resources Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. As the first and only venture fund dedicated to working with and investing in startups in highly regulated industries, our unique model provides significant. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping founders and their companies impact and change the world. Founder Alister Coleman said when Folklore Ventures began, the VC market was.

The firm is led by general partners, many of whom are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services. Folklore Ventures is the most mature of the newer VC firms, managing about 160m in funds since it started in 2013.

a16z has $35B in assets under management across multiple funds.Ī16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company building process we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to venture to late-stage technology companies, across bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and companies building toward American dynamism. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. Space Capital is an early-stage space venture capital fund focused on unlocking the value in space technology stacks.
