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a16z crypto is a $300M venture fund that will invest in crypto companies and protocols. Our fund is designed to include the best features of traditional venture capital, updated to the modern crypto world:

We are long-term, patient investors. We’ve been investing in crypto assets for 5+ years. We’ve never sold any of those investments, and don’t plan to any time soon. We structured the a16z crypto fund to be able to hold investments for 10+ years.

We have an “all weather” fund. We plan to invest consistently over time, regardless of market conditions. If there is another “crypto winter,” we’ll keep investing aggressively.

We provide operational support to entrepreneurs. Our crypto investments have access to the same 80+ person a16z operating teams as do our non-crypto investments. Our operating teams have deep expertise in executive and technical recruiting, regulatory affairs, communications and marketing, and general startup management. We are responsible participants in the governance of companies and the governance of networks.

We are flexible with respect to stage, asset type, and geography. One reason we created a new fund is to have maximum flexibility. We invest at all stages, from early stage projects to fully developed later-stage networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. We’ll invest in traditional financial instruments like equity or convertible notes, and new instruments including the direct purchase of coins/tokens. Crypto is a global phenomenon, with great projects all around the world, and we’ll invest accordingly.

We are focused on non-speculative use cases. We want services powered by crypto protocols to be used by hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people. Crypto tokens are the native asset class of digital networks, but their value is driven by the underlying, practical uses cases.

ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ

Maryam Bahrani

Pranav Garimidi

Maggie Hsu

Jason Rosenthal

Ish Verduzco

Jeffrey Amico

Porter Smith

Riyaz Faizullabhoy

Nassim Eddequiouaq

Justin Gregorius

Sriram Krishnan

Tim Roughgarden

Eddy Lazzarin

Alex Pruden

Jane Lippencott

Corban Bell

Caroline Moon

Kathryn Haun

Surojit Chatterjee

Jesse Walden

Denis Nazarov

Kim Milosevich

Ali Yahya

Chris Dixon

Packy McCormick

Hilary Kivitz

Arianna Simpson

Guy Wuollet

Dan Boneh

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Azra Games

AminoChain

Story Protocol

Morpho

Daylight

Portfolio

CypherHunter Plus

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