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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
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$1M
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$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.

Team

Chris Dixon - Founder & Managing Partner

Ali Yahya - General Partner

Arianna Simpson - General Partner

Sriram Krishnan - General Partner

Daren Matsuoka - Partner

Eddy Lazzarin - CTO

Tim Roughgarden - Head of Research

Miles Jennings - Head of Policy

Carra Wu - Partner

Sam Ragsdale - Partner

Daniel Reynaud - Partner

Guy Wuollet - Partner

Anthony Albanese - COO

SungMo Park - Head of APAC GTM

Portfolio

Solana

EigenLayer

Alchemy

LayerZero

Aztec

Aleo

zkSync

Babylon Labs

Loop Crypto

Seismic Systems

Daylight

NEAR Protocol

Goldfinch

Dynamic Labs

Farcaster

Heritage Distilling

Oro

Halliday

EigenCloud

Sound.xyz

Espresso

Gensyn

Jito

XMTP

Flow

Blackbird

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