a16z
Confidence 0.80 · 3 sources · last confirmed 2026-07-09
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm (founded 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz). Promoted to a wiki entity page on 9 July 2026 on its third wiki mention — the first two were passing references (Amjad Masad naming a16z as Replit’s seed investor; Benedict Evans naming it as his former employer) — this third appearance is a16z’s own publishing channel, the a16z Show podcast.
Appears in this wiki via
- 2026-07-07-sinofsky-amble-a16z-software-in-the-age-of-agents — Software in the Age of Agents (the a16z Show, 7 Jul 2026). Seema Amble (a16z enterprise partner) and Steven Sinofsky (a16z board partner) on headless software, “exception handling is the entire game,” vibe-coding-into-enterprise skepticism, and startup positioning strategy. First source under this channel.
- 2026-04-25-masad-replit-ceo-only-two-jobs-left — passing mention: a16z (specifically Marc Andreessen) led Replit’s seed round. Dangling, deferred.
- 2026-05-31-benedict-evans-rational-conversation-on-where-ai-is-actually-going — Benedict Evans is a former a16z partner (“House of a16z”); a16z is his former employer, referenced repeatedly across the interview.
People associated with a16z (referenced across the wiki)
- Steven Sinofsky — board partner; wiki entity page.
- Seema Amble — enterprise partner; co-host of the a16z Show episode; first wiki mention, deferred (single source).
- Marc Andreessen — co-founder; referenced across multiple sources but not yet a wiki entity page (deferred, per Benedict Evans’s dangling list).
- Benedict Evans — former a16z partner, now independent analyst; first wiki source under his own name.
Open questions
- a16z’s own published essays (Seema Amble’s Is Software Losing Its Head? and the companion The Death of Software? Nah., both referenced inside the podcast episode) are not yet directly ingested — either would sharpen the headless-software / enterprise-stickiness argument beyond what the podcast conversation alone captures.
- a16z’s portfolio-company overlap with topics it covers editorially (standard VC-content caveat, noted on the source page) — worth tracking if a16z becomes a recurring wiki channel, to keep the wiki’s own citation discipline aware of the incentive structure.