Andreessen Horowitz launched the a16z FDE Fellowship, an eight-week cohort for forward-deployed engineers and applied AI leaders deploying AI into enterprise settings. The program, starting in July 20…
AI is augmenting rather than replacing human workers in B2B customer support, according to data from Pylon, the agentic support platform. The technology resolves only about 15% of B2B support tickets …
Apollo's Marc Rowan told a16z that AI application layer startups can still succeed by avoiding direct competition with OpenAI and Anthropic on horizontal tools like code generation and writing. Rowan …
Compliance officers have become one of the fastest-growing occupations in the U.S., with over 400,000 employed nationwide representing $40 billion in annual labor costs, yet the field faces chronic ta…
Exa has raised a Series C round led by a16z to build a search engine designed specifically for AI agents, which the company says will soon search the web more than humans. The startup has spent five y…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading Exa's Series C funding round to support the company's development of a search engine built specifically for artificial intelligence agents. Exa's technology aims …
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has hired General (R) Bryan P. Fenton as a special advisor. The venture firm argues that plaintiff attorneys' business model—based on lead generation, underwriting, and bran…
Prices for DDR5 and DDR4 memory chips have more than tripled year-over-year as of March, driven by surging AI infrastructure demand and a global bidding war for high-bandwidth memory. Memory manufactu…
A new generation of enterprise software companies is shifting focus from owning the "system of record" to building "systems of intelligence," according to analysts. These systems sit above databases l…
Venture capital firm a16z is leading Stitch's Series A funding round, marking its first investment in Saudi Arabia. Stitch provides an API-first operating system for financial institutions, including …
Hyperscalers Amazon and Google reported that "other income" accounted for more than a third of their net income in the first quarter, driven by unrealized gains from private market investments totalin…
The U.S. Congress has introduced over 100 AI-related bills in the past two years, but only one standalone measure—the Take It Down Act—has become law. Structural hurdles, fragmented committee jurisdic…
Venture capital firm a16z is leading a Series A investment in Ethos, a startup building AI-powered infrastructure to match workers with professional opportunities. The company uses AI voice agents to …
The "AI job apocalypse" narrative is based on the "lump-of-labor" fallacy, which incorrectly assumes a fixed amount of work and ignores how human wants and markets expand, according to a new analysis.…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has selected 65 fellows for the inaugural cohort of its Growth Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week program for growth engineers and AI-native leaders. The fellows, who come from …