Charts of the Summer: Featuring Deel
Welcome to a special Vacation Week issue of chart deep dives, where we go into a specific topic with data from a portfolio company. Tod…
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The 2026 Summer Reading List
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville Topic : Obsession, Revenge, Seafaring, Whale Anatomy, How to negotiate startup equity, American Dynamism…
Meet the a16z Design Engineer Fellows
A few weeks ago, we announced the a16z Design Engineer Fellowship —an 8-week cohort of AI-native design leaders at the forefront…
Charts of the Week: Cycles, different but the same
Cycles, different but the same If you compare this cycle to the previous one, in some ways it’s exactly the same, and in other wa…
NASA’s Artemis II Mission
William Whittenbury is an astronautical engineer who supported space missions including the Artemis Program and the James Webb Telescop…
Investing in Netris
Every technology cycle changes data center architecture and the AI revolution is no exception. Most of the news today is about compute,…
Investing in Mirendil
The structure of the modern AI industry has been shaped largely by scaling laws. Large, general-purpose models have conclusively outper…
The World-Building Doors Are Open, Again.
Hi, I’m Josh, and I’m thrilled to be here. Today I’m joining A16Z as a partner to help find and support the next gene…
Investing in Probook
Every business has one decision that everything else bends around. In home services, that decision is dispatch: which technician goes t…
Impeccable by Design
Today I’m launching Renaissance Geek – the company behind Impeccable – with backing from a16z led by Anish Acharya, a…
How to Win a Space War
Orbits are now battlefields — and it’s time we admitted it. Russia is jamming GPS satellite receivers across most of Easter…
Investing in Prosper AI
Healthcare runs on the office landline. Behind every doctor is a room you never see: staff in headsets, scheduling patient visits while…
Meet the second cohort of a16z New Media Fellows
The a16z New Media Fellowship is back for round two! We’re excited to introduce a brand-new cohort of 65 generational storyteller…
New Media, One Year In
We’re excited to announce a16z’s Talent Engineer Fellowship : an 8-week cohort for the people building at the forefront of…
Introducing the a16z Talent Engineer Fellowship
Today we’re launching the a16z Talent Engineer Fellowship: an 8-week cohort for the people building the next operating system for…
Investing in Telepatia
Nicolás Abad’s father was the kind of doctor patients never forget. A physician in Colombia, he became known as “Telep…
Investing in Convey
Legend has it that in the early days of DoorDash, the whole delivery network ran on one guy named Steve. An order would come in, and St…
Uneven Frontiers
Today’s post is by Ben Liu, co-founder and CEO of Formation Bio. It’s one of my favorite long reads in a while. AI will tra…
The a16z CFO Community
News as of this morning: SpaceX is acquiring Cursor . Here’s founder Michael Truell and a16z’s Martin Casado at last year&#…
SpaceX & the Sentient Sun
This is the inaugural issue of Profiles of the Future, a new monthly series from a16z that profiles the future of an industry through t…
Charts of the Week: Making the Stuff that Makes the Stuff
Making the Stuff that Makes the Stuff There’s a decent amount of evidence that a manufacturing “boom-let” is underway…
Late Stage Venture Is About Late Stage Founders
“Growth-stage venture” has emerged as its own asset class, and we think it’s the most important asset class in the wo…
Everything is Recorded Now
One of the biggest ways that AI is transforming work (and also one of the most taboo subjects inside companies at the moment) is that m…
Month-End Is Now Just Another Day
You know the line: “We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” (It’s often attributed to Marshall McLuha…
Charts of the Week: RTO Stalled
RTO Interrupted It’s been about 5 years since the grand post-pandemic re-opening, and people still aren’t going to the offi…
A16Z's Global Mission
At Andreessen Horowitz, we believe that the best thing that a society can do for a person is to give them a chance . We unapologeticall…
Helping Our Portfolio Companies Expand Globally
This piece from Raghu Raghuram, Managing Partner and General Partner at a16z, is a part of today’s announcement: A16z’s Glo…
A16Z Investor Relations is now Global Partnerships
This piece from Jen Kha, Managing Partner and Head of Global Partnerships, is a part of today’s announcement: A16z’s Global…
Technology is Security, for America and Her Allies
This piece from Anne Neuberger, our newest GP and Head of Global Affairs, is a part of today’s announcement: A16z’s Global…
A Functional Taxonomy of World Models
Today, we’re excited to be publishing an excerpt from Dr. Fei-Fei Li ’s recent blogpost on World Models. You can read more…
Investing in Town
For the past few years, using AI has mostly meant staring at a blank prompt box and knowing the right thing to ask it. You open a chatb…
Small Businesses are the Next Frontier for AI
Truth be told, when I immigrated from Amsterdam to San Francisco ten years ago, spending 15,000 hours with hundreds of small business o…
Investing in Lassie
Most small businesses have something in common: they are run by reluctant operators. These are owners who set out to provide a service…
Introducing Special
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk Justin and I spent the…
Investing in Westmag
One of the underrated advantages of investing across the entire hardware stack is firsthand exposure to the supply chain challenges tha…
Why We Founded Westmag
America does not make the motors that move its drones and its robots. We started Westmag to change that. Most aerial drones fly with fo…
The Next Frontier of Visual AI Is Code
For the last few years, visual AI has mostly been judged by its pixels . The better the final image or video looked, the better the mod…
Investing in Endra
The built world runs on software older than some of the engineers using it. We wrote 2500 words about why, and now we’re backing…
Keeping the Drone Swarm Alive
During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, officers joked that there was “nothing unmanned about unmanned aircraft.” A single…
Charts of the Week: Retail to the Moon
Retail to the moon While many (if not most) of the big pandemic themes have reverted to their pre-pandemic trend, one of them most cert…
Narrative Violation: In B2B customer support, AI is a Copilot, Not a Replacement
We’re excited to announce a16z’s FDE Fellowship : an 8-week cohort for FDEs and Applied AI leaders at the forefront of depl…
Introducing the a16z FDE Fellowship
Today we’re introducing the a16z FDE Fellowship - an 8-week cohort for FDEs and Applied AI leaders at the forefront of deploying…
Avoiding Death on the Yellow Brick Road
recently sat down with Apollo’s Marc Rowan on the a16z Podcast—check out their conversation here . - AD The question I keep…
Everything, Everywhere is Compliance
Over the last 20 years the fastest-growing occupation in the US was manicurists and pedicurists. But following close behind? Compliance…
Charts of the Week: Reflections from Sohn
Two things. First, we’re excited to welcome Peter Levine back as a full-time GP. Read more about his return here . Second, we get…
Flock and the Future of Safety in American Cities
Last Saturday morning, three teenagers stole a handgun from Central Texas Gunworks in Austin. In the next twenty-eight hours, they shot…
Exa is Building the Search Engine for the AI Era
Today’s post is by Will Bryk , cofounder and CEO of Exa. Exa announced their Series C this morning, led by a16z . AI agents will…
Investing in Exa
For the last two decades, search was built for humans. Google’s PageRank turned the web into something navigable: a system of lin…