Tagged: andreessen horowitz

June 13, 2020 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rex Salisbury, partner on the Fintech team at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) and founder of Cambrian, a community at the “white-hot center” of Fintech, reveals that partner banks have “exploded” in recent years. Salisbury confirmed that today, there are over 30 partner banks, which… Read More

May 18, 2020 @ 3:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Giant VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is arguing that the growth of social media, application developers, digital asset prices, and the rise of blockchain startups may eventually lead to the development of a more stable cryptocurrency industry. The US-based firm published a report on May 15,… Read More

May 14, 2020 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)-backed dYdX, a non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange, has confirmed the public launch of its Bitcoin (BTC) perpetual contracts market. Perpetual contracts are derivatives that are somewhat like futures contracts, however, they don’t have an expiry or fixed settlement date. Perpetual contracts closely resemble a… Read More

May 1, 2020 @ 10:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Giant venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has finalized its second crypto asset fund which is valued at over half a billion dollars. Established in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz in 2009, the VC firm confirmed the news on April 30, 2020. The… Read More

April 29, 2020 @ 2:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

tBTC, an Ethereum (ETH)-based token that’s pegged to Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, is preparing for its public launch. During the course of the next two weeks, the tBTC project is planning to introduce its technical infrastructure with the help of more than 40 digital… Read More

April 15, 2020 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is planning to secure $450 million in capital for its second digital asset-focused fund, according to a recent report from the Financial Times (FT). Sources familiar with the matter told the FT that the giant VC firm… Read More

March 12, 2020 @ 7:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Facebook-led Libra stablecoin project might now have some competition. The Celo Foundation has managed to sign up 50 organizations to its “Alliance for Prosperity” program, which aims to enable greater financial inclusion by leveraging blockchain technology and helping people transact with digital assets. Giant… Read More

March 6, 2020 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain startup Arweave, a firm focused on enabling the permanent storage of Internet-based content, has secured $8.3 million in funding from giant VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase Ventures, and Union Square Ventures.  Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures have also invested in the firm’s operations… Read More

February 1, 2020 @ 9:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Veteran digital asset investor Arianna Simpson, who has been into crypto “before it was cool,” will reportedly be joining giant venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a deal partner. Simpson, the founder and managing director at crypto-asset hedge fund Autonomous Partners, confirmed the news on… Read More

January 25, 2020 @ 1:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized cloud computing developer Dfinity, which notably secured $102 million back in 2018, has unveiled what appears to be an “open version” of giant professional social network LinkedIn, referred to as “LinkedUp.” The LinkedUp app has reportedly been launched on Dfinity’s decentralized “Internet Computer,” instead… Read More

December 29, 2019 @ 6:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Snackpass, a food pickup app that has a loyalty rewards program that works in a manner that’s somewhat similar to a social media platform, recently secured $21 million via a Series A round led by giant venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Snackpass says it now… Read More

November 9, 2019 @ 3:57 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Prolific Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is offering a free seven-week program starting in late February 2020 called the “a16z Crypto Startup School.” Famous for being one of the early backers of Facebook and Instagram, Andreessen Horowitz has added a number of cryptocurrency/ “blockchain”… Read More

November 6, 2019 @ 9:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz recently led a $5 million investment round for Arweave, a blockchain firm that’s developing permanent online data storage solutions. On November 5, the developers of Arweave revealed that they had managed to receive investments from world-leading funds in… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Banking financial service software provider Synapse has closed on a Series B Funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Synapse raised $33 million in the funding round with participation from existing investors Trinity and Core Innovation Capital. As part of the investment, Angela Strange (General… Read More

January 8, 2019 @ 10:45 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Arnold Kling, an economist and adjunct scholar at the Libertarian think tank The Cato Institute, has blogged his reflections on a recent interview with blockchain proponents and tech VCs Andreessen-Horowitz (A-H). Like A-H, Kling was around during the Internet’s nascent phase and made money from… Read More

September 26, 2018 @ 10:04 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Representatives from Wall Street and prominent US crypto investment/services firms are convening in Washington this week to attend a legislative roundtable hosted by Republican Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio, CNBC reports. Attendees at the roundtable, titled “Legislating Certainty for Cryptocurrencies,” are reportedly hoping to influence… Read More

June 25, 2018 @ 6:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Andreessen Horowitz, perhaps the most prominent VC in the world, has gone crypto. In a blog post today, Chris Dixon,  a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, announced the a16z crypto venture fund backed with $300 million of fiat currency. Dixon said the new venture fund will… Read More

May 18, 2018 @ 8:09 am By Cali Haan  |  

Seasoned reporter Paul Vigna, who covers cryptocurrencies and blockchain at the Wall Street Journal and who also co-authored a fine book on the subject, The Age of Cryptocurrencies, sat down at Consensus with VCs Balaji S. Srinivasan and Fred Wilson to discuss the business realities that may… Read More

May 2, 2018 @ 11:00 am By Dror Futter  |  

The US initial coin offering (ICO) market is the subject of a great deal of regulatory uncertainty resulting, in large part, from the absence of comprehensive guidance by the SEC.   The uncertainty has caused frustration for issuers and investors and has also been counter-productive… Read More

April 18, 2018 @ 7:01 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Point, a fintech platform that allows homeowners to unlock home equity wealth without taking on new debt, has agreed to a forward flow purchase program with investment firm Atalaya Capital Management to purchase up to $150 million of Point’s structured home equity investment instruments. “We’re… Read More