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a16z Crypto

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Status

ACTIVE

Global HQ

Menlo Park, United States

Countries of investment

United States
United Kingdom
Singapore
South Korea
Switzerland
Israel
Germany
Cayman Islands
British Virgin Islands

Investment stages

Seed
Early Stage
Late Stage

Industries

Crypto
Blockchain
Web3
DeFi
NFTs
Gaming
AI
Infrastructure
Consumer Internet
Financial Services

About
a16z Crypto is the crypto-focused arm of Andreessen Horowitz founded by Chris Dixon in 2018, headquartered in Menlo Park with offices in New York, San Francisco, London, and Seoul; manages over $7 billion across four dedicated crypto funds, making it the largest individual crypto venture franchise globally; backs portfolio companies including Solana, EigenLayer, Alchemy, LayerZero, Aztec, Aleo, and zkSync, with active policy engagement and dedicated research, security, talent, and go-to-market support teams

Min check size: $1M
Max check size: $50M
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Investment Thesis

a16z Crypto invests in crypto, web3, and blockchain technologies as the foundational infrastructure for the next era of the internet, viewing blockchains as neutral platforms enabling user ownership, network effects, and decentralized economic models; focuses on protocols, infrastructure, consumer applications, gaming, DeFi, and the intersection of AI and crypto, with stage-agnostic investments from seed through growth

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Manager's Experience

Chris Dixon (Founder & Managing Partner) is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee 2006) and Hunch (acquired by eBay 2011), joined Andreessen Horowitz as General Partner in 2012, and founded a16z crypto with over $7 billion AUM across four funds; he previously worked at Bessemer Venture Partners and authored Read Write Own. Ali Yahya (General Partner) was previously a software engineer at Google X on the Everyday Robot project and at Google Brain as a core developer on TensorFlow, with academic research at Stanford Computer Security Lab. Arianna Simpson (General Partner) founded Autonomous Partners crypto hedge fund and has invested in crypto for nearly a decade. Sriram Krishnan (General Partner) was a senior product executive at Twitter, Snap, Facebook, and Microsoft before joining Andreessen Horowitz. The team also includes research partners like Stanford cryptographer Dan Boneh and operating leaders supporting portfolio companies globally.