Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) manages approximately $42 billion in assets, founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The firm upended traditional VC by offering portfolio companies a suite of operational services including recruiting, marketing, and government affairs. Its notable investments include Facebook, Airbnb, Coinbase, GitHub, Lyft, and OpenAI, and it has become the most vocal VC advocate for crypto, AI, and "American dynamism" as a political philosophy.