Andreessen Horowitz
Investor www.a16z.com ● Covered in 18 stories + Follow ✴ AI Graph LinkedIn
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is an AI-focused venture investor that has recently backed companies across the AI stack, including AI agent-ready CRM startup Lightfield, agent-coding firm Cognition, disaggregated inference platform Gimlet Labs, and accounting AI platform Rillet. Recent coverage also notes the firm’s fund activity, including expanding its Growth fund to $8.5 billion and previously closing an AI hardware-focused fund. In parallel, the firm is facing a DOJ investigation into whether its partners improperly served on boards of competing AI companies, raising potential conflicts-of-interest questions.
Updated 16 September 2026
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11 sources
Source diversity
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Distinct publications behind this entity's visible coverage.
16 investments
Investment activity
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Source-backed invests-in relationships tracked from this investor.
Sep 2025 → Sep 2026
Coverage span
As of 17 Sep 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.
Management
updated 6 Sep 2026- Scott Kupor Managing Partner
- Jai Ramaswamy Chief Legal Officer
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Mindy Isenstein
Partner, Venture Capital
- Chris S. Chief Investment Officer
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Henry Williams
Partner, Research And New Media
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Jen Walsh
Design Director
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Deena Elitreby
Partner, Head Of Corporate Finance
- Tash Jefferies Startup Mentor (a16z TxO Fund)
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Anthony Albanese
Chief Operating Officer, A16z Crypto
- Rosa Davila Executive Assistant, Talent Network
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Jen Kha
Managing Partner, Head of Global Partnerships
- Andreas Papadimitropoulos Head Of Analytics & Systems, Talent Network
+ 56 more tracked
Portfolio
OpenAI SpaceX Mistral AI Databricks Cognition Etched Volta Vals AI Rillet Gimlet Labs Mariana Minerals Cognition AI Inc. Lightfield Cascade Convex Town
Latest developments
DOJ is probing whether Andreessen Horowitz partners improperly sat on competing AI company boards
Bloomberg · 4 weeks ago ·
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Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends
Fortune ·
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Q3 2026
Andreessen Horowitz invests in Lightfield Funding
Cognition AI Inc. invests in Andreessen Horowitz Funding
Cognition raises a $2 billion Series E at a $48 billion valuation for its AI coding agent Devin Funding
Andreessen Horowitz invests in Gimlet Labs Funding
Rillet raises $100 million Series C funding at $1 billion valuation Funding
Andreessen Horowitz invests in Rillet Funding
Andreessen Horowitz invests in Volta Funding
Andreessen Horowitz invests in Convex Funding
HappyRobot raises $150M Series C funding at $1.2B valuation Funding
China regulates anthropomorphic AI services and emergence of facial data licensing marketplace Policy change
- Meet Chris Schnabl, the 25-Year-Old Austrian Investing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
- AI-native CRM startup Lightfield raises $47M to build an AI agent-ready replacement for Salesforce
- AI coding startup Cognition raises $2B at $48B valuation as revenue nears $900M
- Gimlet Labs nabs $300M for its disaggregated inference platform
- Andreessen-backed Gimlet Labs hits $3B valuation with $300M round as AI goes multi-chip
- a16z expands Growth fund to $8.5B after backing Databricks, OpenAI, SpaceX and others
- DOJ is probing whether Andreessen Horowitz partners improperly sat on competing AI company boards
- Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends
- Andreessen Horowitz focus of DOJ probe over board directors
- a16z leads $40M Vals AI round at $400M valuation to test AI on real-world tasks
- Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
- Volta raises $300M at $2.4B valuation with Nvidia and Dell backing
- A16z backs HappyRobot at $1.2bn valuation
- Convex reels in $57M for its AI-optimized application backend
- Chinese Labs' Latest Product? Roleplay
- AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
- AI engineering project predictor startup Cascade wins backing from a16z accelerator
Q3 2025
Relationships
Investment & ownership
- Invests in Rillet · 2 sources
- Invests in Gimlet Labs · 2 sources
- Invests in Cascade · 1 source
- Invests in Mistral AI · 1 source
- Invests in Etched · 1 source
- Invests in Volta · 1 source
- Invests in Mariana Minerals · 1 source
- Invests in Vals AI · 1 source
- Invests in Town · 1 source
- Invests in Convex · 1 source
People
- Founded by Marc Andreessen · 1 source
- Founded by Ben Horowitz · 1 source