Articles about Andreessen Horowitz

Seattle data analytics startup MotherDuck emerges from stealth, reveals $47.5M in funding

MotherDuck is peeking its head above water. The Seattle startup lifted the hood Tuesday on its data analytics system based on… Read More

A ‘Prairie’ in the desert: Tech vet gets his hands dirty planting immersive light show at Burning Man

James Gwertzman has always been a “tinkerer.” He has early memories of soldering together an AM radio kit with his… Read More

‘Intersection of innovation’: Why top tech VC firms are betting big on life science startups

Machine learning, data science and other computational methods are wielded by a growing number of biopharma startups to find new… Read More

Pacific Northwest startups well-represented in new Andreessen Horowitz top 100 marketplace list

Six Pacific Northwest startups made Silicon Valley venture capital titan Andreessen Horowitz’s new ranking of the 100 top consumer marketplaces. … Read More

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel building mysterious biotech startup, backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Sujal Patel has seen a world-changing trend coming before. In 2001, in his mid-20s, he founded data storage technology company… Read More

FlyHomes raises $17M to purchase homes for buyers battling cash offers in hot housing markets

In Seattle, the nation’s hottest housing market for 19 straight months, frustrated buyers are losing out to all-cash offers left… Read More

This Andreessen Horowitz partner loves marketplace business ideas, and here’s why

Andreessen Horowitz partner Jeff Jordan loves him some online marketplaces. Jordan, the OfferUp and Airbnb investor and former eBay executive… Read More

Airbnb vs. Expedia: Top company insiders explain how the rivalry is changing

How people get to a travel destination hasn’t changed much in recent decades, but where they stay once they arrive… Read More

Live blog: Andreessen Horowitz partner Jeff Jordan at the GeekWire Summit 2016

Jeff Jordan has worked with pretty much every type of technology company in his career. He is a general partner at the venture capital… Read More

Craigslist rival OfferUp raises $119M, confirms $1B valuation and cites ‘global ambitions’

Bellevue, Wash.-based OfferUp says it has closed a $119 million funding round, led by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. The round has… Read More

Healthcare company Accolade, helmed by Concur co-founders, lands $70M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona

Accolade, a healthcare company led by Concur co-founders Raj Singh and Mike Hilton that helps people and companies navigate the… Read More

Tips from top investors: How startups can succeed in an uncertain economy

How should startups navigate turbulent economic times? That was one of the questions posed to a panel of investors at the recent… Read More

Geek of the Week: Rahul Singh is a ‘dev at heart,’ aiming to transform the world of DevOps

It’s quite a compliment when one of the most prominent venture capital firms around calls you, “one of those 10x founders.” It’s… Read More

Amazon rolls out ‘Launchpad’ for startups, partners with Y Combinator, Indiegogo, Techstars and others

Amazon is working with some of the top startup programs and investors in the country on a new initiative called Amazon… Read More

The New Yorker profiles the big, bold life of Marc Andreessen

Speaking of great profile pieces today, The New Yorker‘s May 18 edition features a super-lengthy profile piece on Marc Andreessen. You… Read More

Marc Andreessen is retweeting a lot about weed today

Could Marc Andreessen be the next major investor eyeballing the burgeoning legal marijuana market? Mayhaps. It came to our attention today that… Read More

Amazon Web Services vet scores $2.8M from Andreessen Horowitz and others for hot Seattle startup Distelli

Rahul Singh spent eight years at Amazon working on key platform technologies that helped power Amazon Web Services through its… Read More

Instacart’s $44M funding round raises the stakes in grocery delivery

Grocery delivery service Instacart has raised a $44 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator President Sam Altman and Box CEO… Read More

Andreessen Horowitz leads $22M series B round for mobile OS-maker Cyanogen

Cyanogen’s plans to disrupt the mobile operating system market just became a little more legitimate. The Seattle-based company today announced… Read More

Usermind raises $7.6M from Andreessen Horowitz to build software for enterprise business operations

Andreessen Horowitz Partner Scott Weiss was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal article talking about his firm’s interest in enterprise… Read More

Cosmetics upstart Julep reels in another $5M from Maveron, Andreessen Horowitz

It usually doesn’t happen this way. But Julep, the fast-growing Seattle cosmetics upstart, has gotten bigger as its metrics have improved.… Read More