13 Facts About Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz is a private American venture capital firm, founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.

Andreessen Horowitz invests in both early-stage start-ups and established growth companies.

In May 2011, Andreessen ranked number 10 on the 2011 Forbes Midas List of Tech's Top Investors while he and Horowitz ranked number 6 on Vanity Fair's 2011 New Establishment List and number 1 on CNET's 2011 most influential investors list.

In January 2022, Andreessen Horowitz raised $9 billion for its venture capital, growth-stage and biotech-focused vehicles.

In 2009, Andreessen Horowitz made its two first investments: one in business management SaaS developer Apptio and the other in Skype stock.

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In 2010, Andreessen Horowitz invested $10 million in cloud company Okta while leading its Series A Round.

In 2011, Andreessen Horowitz invested $80 million in Twitter, becoming the first venture firm that held stock in all four of the highest-valued, privately held social media companies at the time: Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, and Zynga.

Andreessen Horowitz has invested in Airbnb, Lytro, Jawbone, Belly, Foursquare, Stripe and other high-tech companies.

In 2012, Andreessen Horowitz invested in 156 companies, including the 90 companies in its portfolio, and 66 start-ups through its funding of Y Combinator's Start Fund.

Andreessen Horowitz invested $100 million in GitHub, which netted over $1 billion for the fund when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft for $7.

In 2013, Andreessen Horowitz invested in Clinkle, Coinbase, Databricks, Lyft, Oculus VR, PagerDuty, Pixlee, Ripple, Soylent, Swiftype and uBiome.

Also in 2015 Andreessen Horowitz invested in the blogging platform Medium, Samsara, Improbable, Honor, Inc, OpenBazaar, a blockchain startup, and nootropics and biohacking company Nootrobox.

In March 2022, Andreessen Horowitz led the round to raise $450 million at a $4B Valuation in Yuga Labs.