The company plans to hire more engineers despite the intense bear market. Aztec Network – a privacy layer 2 chain for Web3 – announced raising $100 million in a Series B financing led by VC giant Andr...
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Aztec Network secures $100 million in Series B funding led by a16z
The private layer-2 chain Aztec Network announced on Dec. 15 a $100 million Series B funding round led by venture capital firm a16z crypto. Other investors in the round include A Capital, King River, ...
a16z leads $100 million raise for web3 privacy firm Aztec Network
The privacy-focused web3 firm Aztec Network raised $100 million in Series B funding led by the web3 investment firm a16z. Aztec aims to fully encrypt the Ethereum blockchain to add more privacy...
VC Giant ‘a16z’ Recruits Former CFTC Commissioner as Head of Policy
5 hours ago | 2 mins read Defi News Brian Quintenz will now serve as its full-time head of policy. Quintenz initially joined a16z in September 2021 as a senior adviser. Andreessen Horowitz, better kno...
A16z Elevates Former US CFTC Commissioner Quintenz to Policy Chief
“We’re believers in transparent, bipartisan, tailored policymaking that provides clear rules of the road, that embraces the technology and respects consumers’ needs,” Quintenz said in an interview. “T...
CFTC’s former commissioner Brian Quintenz joins a16z as head of policy
California-based venture capital firm a16z has made Brian Quintenz its new Head of Policy to lead the Web3-focused company’s bi-partisan policy efforts. Per a statement released on December 6, a16z ha...
A16z Leads $15M Round for Game Studio Roboto Games
The funding will go toward building out the company’s second game and hiring across a variety of roles, including artists and marketers, Roboto Games founders Curt Bererton and Mathilde Pignol told Co...
The crypto bets of a16z crumble, early investors still profit
Listen to this article. By Q1 this year, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) flagship crypto fund had returned almost five times for early backers, according to documents reviewed by Sem...
Deaton Slams a16z General Counsel For Wrongly Asserting Ripple Should Be Decentralized
– Advertisement – Deaton goes up against a16z general counsel Miles Jennings. In a tweet on Tuesday, Attorney John Deaton, popular for his role as amicus curiae in the case between the US ...
a16z ‘Temporarily’ Helping Out Elon Musk with Twitter
The a16z crypto general partner is not new to Twitter. He wrote on his LinkedIn page that he worked at Twitter for three years, between 2017 and 2019. VC company Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is also one...
A16z Loses Big In Bear Market, Crypto Daily TV 28/10/2022
In Todays Headline TV CryptoDaily News: Crypto behemoth a16z suffers huge investment losses. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a venture capital firm known for its huge investment in crypto and blockchain, ...
a16z continues pouring millions into crypto despite taking losses in H1
A report published by the Wall Street Journal revealed that the crypto winter seems to have caught up with Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley’s most sought-after venture capital firms. ...
Here’s How Much a16z’ Largest Crypto Fund Is Down: WSJ
Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, has been affected by the ongoing crypto winter, with the company’s flagship cryptocurrency fund losing nearly half of its value in the fi...
a16z dials back crypto investing as flagship fund gets rekt
Crypto-loving Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has had a rough year, reporting a 40% drop in its flagship crypto fund in the first half of 2022 — yet execs continue to regurgitate unwavering loyalty to its ...
A16z Opposes the Plan to Split Up the DeFi Giant MakerDAO –
24 mins ago | 2 mins read Blockchain News A16z disagrees with the founder’s plan to split MakerDAO. Almost 90% of voters support the establishment of MetaDAOs. The top venture capital firm, Andreessen...
A16z Doesn’t Support Plan to Break Up DeFi Giant MakerDAO
“Currently, MakerDAO is wrestling with the trade-offs between growing the protocol or hardening it against regulatory risks,” Dustin Teander, an analyst at crypto intelligence platform Messari, ...
Uniswap DEX Boasts $165M Raise from Polychain, a16z
Uniswap Labs raises $165 million in a Series B funding round led by Polychain Capital and earlier investors Paradigm and a16z. The company is the corporate entity behind the decentralized exchange Un...
Web3 Protocol Golden Raises $40M Led by A16z Venture Capital
2 seconds ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News According to Golden’s CEO and creator, existing data mining techniques are flawed. Golden presents a mechanism to penalize the entry of fraudulent data. With t...
A16z Make Moves to Improve NFT Copyrights
Andreessen Horowitz has released free NFT licenses dubbed “Can’t be Evil.” The organization is constantly working towards the development of Web3. Web3 is believed to be a user-owned space which trans...
Decentralized Web3 Protocol Golden Raises $40 Million Backed by A16z – Defi Bitcoin News
Golden, a startup that seeks to build a decentralized data hub, has raised $40 million dollars in a Series B funding round. The round, which was led by a16z crypto, will allow the company to keep buil...
A16z leads $40M raise for decentralized knowledge protocol
Decentralized knowledge protocol Golden has closed a $40 million funding round led by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, with additional participation from Protocol Labs, OpenSea Ventures and ...
A16z Leads $40M Funding for Web3 Data Protocol Golden
“Knowledge is fragmented; to find reliable information, one needs to search across centralized repositories, personal webpages, news sites, blogs, and private databases. The world lacks a standardized...
A16Z Backs The Launch Of Shoppable Video App Flavrs With $7 Million Seed Funding
Cofounders of flavrs, Alejandro Oropeza (left) and François Chu (right), connected through their … [+] shared passion for food. flavrs Flavrs, a shoppable video application that combines premium...
a16z Introduces Free NFT Licensing Framework To Control Ownership
Ownership recognition of Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has become a critical issue that raises many other legal problems and copyright vulnerabilities. A venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, also k...
A16z proposes a set of licenses especially for NFTs, based on Creative Commons model
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) announced Wednesday that it had devised a set of six licenses tailored to nonfungible tokens (NFTs) that are based on the model pioneered by Creative Co...
Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz
a16z led a $50 million Series A fundraise for non-fungible token (NFT) organization Proof, a private members only collective of 1,000 dedicated NFT collectors and artists. Additional participants in t...
A16z Creates NFT Licensing Framework to Standardize Collectors’ Rights
Licenses provide open source codified versions of intellectual property rights Murky IP licensing has recently caused confusion regarding rights of NFT buyers Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz’...
Moonbirds Parent Firm PROOF Closes $50M Series A Round Led by A16Z
PROOF, the parent company of Moonbirds NFT, has received $50 million in Series A financing in a new round of financing led by a16z. Other participants in this round of financing were venture capital f...
A16z Wants to Standardize NFTs by Giving You a License for Your Token
His firm – as explained in a Wednesday blog post from Jennings and Chris Dixon, an Andreessen Horowitz managing partner who founded its crypto arm – is releasing “a set of free, public ‘Can’t Be Evil’...
NFT Collective Proof Raises $50M in Funding Round Led by a16z
During Tuesday’s event, the company released new details about PROOF’s third NFT collection: Moonbirds Mythics, a 20,000 PFP (profile pic) collection slated to launch in early 2023. Moonbirds DAO, a d...