Meet the a16z Design Engineer Fellows
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the 73 fellows selected for its inaugural Design Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week cohort of AI-native design leaders from companies like OpenAI, Cursor, Stripe, and …
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the 73 fellows selected for its inaugural Design Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week cohort of AI-native design leaders from companies like OpenAI, Cursor, Stripe, and …
A16z's latest charts show that the current market cycle mirrors the post-GFC period with tech as the repeat winner, but other sectors have inverted—healthcare and consumer lag while energy and materia…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested in Netris, a startup that provides network management software for GPU data centers. The company's solution addresses the complexity of managing multiple networ…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led Mirendil's seed round to build a lab-grade research platform that enables engineers and domain experts to conduct frontier AI work. Mirendil aims to democratize AI devel…
Josh, a new partner at A16Z, announced that the AI wave is opening new opportunities for consumer startups, drawing on his experience building Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Robinhood. He believes A…
A16z is leading Probook's $34 million Series A, bringing total funding to $40 million, to expand its AI-powered dispatch platform for home services. Probook's system centralizes dispatch, intake, and …
Paul Bakaus launched Renaissance Geek, the company behind Impeccable, with backing from a16z led by Anish Acharya and a new partnership with GitHub. Impeccable is an open-source design skill for AI co…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led Prosper AI's $30 million Series A funding round. Prosper AI provides an AI-native platform that automates voice-heavy healthcare administrative tasks such as appointment…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) launched the Talent Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week cohort for engineers and talent leaders building AI-driven recruiting systems. The program aims to address the challenge o…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led a $33 million Series A investment in Telepatia, an AI-native clinical platform for Latin America that combines AI documentation, clinical decision support, and AI health…
AI will transform biopharma unevenly, with drug discovery becoming abundant while clinical development remains the binding constraint. Companies that build durable positions around the development bot…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) launched a CFO community program that brings together small cohorts of finance leaders for in-person sessions over a year, aiming to provide a trusted peer network for discu…
Workplace conversations are now being recorded by default as artificial intelligence transforms how companies operate, with tools like Granola and OpenAI's systems capturing meetings to build a "livin…
Nationwide weekday office visits remain at about 70% of pre-pandemic levels, with office vacancy rates climbing to 14%, the highest since the Global Financial Crisis. Newer office buildings are thrivi…
Dr. Fei-Fei Li and the World Labs team published a functional taxonomy of world models, distinguishing between renderers, simulators, planners, and the reinforcement learning loop that connects them. …
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading a $55 million Series A investment round in Town, a startup developing a personal AI assistant that learns user behavior across email, calenda…
Small businesses across the U.S. are spending hundreds of hours each month on administrative tasks like data entry and billing, diverting owners from patient care and core services. AI agents now have…
Special, a new company founded by former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leaders, announced it is building an AI-powered operating system called SpecialOS to transform critical American ind…
Visual AI is shifting from generating final images and videos to producing the underlying code artifacts that create those visuals, according to a new analysis. This transition from pixel-native to co…
Venture capital firm a16z is leading Endra's Series A funding round. Endra automates the design work of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) consultants, a $150 billion global market, by using a…