Vida Valiente Scholars As A New Iteration Of Philanthropy Through Wine

About a year ago, I wrote about wine and philanthropy through the example of the Vida Valiente Foundation, which provides financial support for first-generation college students who have been admitted...

Marc Andreessen: Ethereum and Web3 Lead Bitcoin on Tech Innovation

Marc Andreessen, best known for co-founding web browser Netscape and Silicon Valley venture capital fund a16z, is still invested in the crypto industry, even though his expectations around Bitcoin did...

Steve Stoute’s UnitedMasters Successfully Recruits Uber, Twitter And Adobe Execs

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 05: Steve Stoute attends the SelectCon 004 panel discussion with Issa Rae … [+] at 74Wythe on May 05, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dominik Bindl/Getty Images) ...

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...

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...

Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann’s New Real Estate Company Is Planning A Digital Wallet That Stores Crypto

Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has amassed more than 3,000 multifamily units for his new venture, Flow. © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Updated: When Adam Neumann revealed his new venture to WeWork-ify th...

A16z Crypto’s Record New $4.5 Billion Fund Doubles Down On Web3 Amid Market Crash

Midas List No. 1 Chris Dixon and co. have a record-sized crypto fund to deploy in another reset of valuations and coin prices that hasn’t come without a human cost. Ethan Pines/The Forbes Collec...

How Chris Dixon’s Dive Down The Crypto Rabbit Hole Made Him The World’s Top Venture Capitalist

The Andreessen Horowitz partner is the new no. 1 on Forbes’ 21st annual Midas List of top venture investors, thanks to savvy bets on tokens, NFTs and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. In fact, a dozen...

Sequoia, FTX Ventures And A16z Lead $135 Million Investment In Crypto Firm Breaking Down Barriers Between Blockchains

LayerZero Labs’ cofounders. From left to right, Caleb Banister, Ryan Zarick and Bryan Pellegrino. LayerZero ‘The future is multichain’ has become crypto’s latest favorite refrain. As opposed to the ma...

Andreessen Horowitz Hires Michele Korver, Former FinCen Advisor

Andreessen Horowitz announced that Michele Korver joined a16z. Michele is the new Head of Regulatory at a16z. Andreessen Horowitz is a well-known venture company that founded in 2009 by Marc Andreesse...

Sequoia Launches $500 Million Fund To Invest In Crypto Tokens As Silicon Valley Throws Billions At Blockchain

Topline Fresh off a record year for crypto funding deals, storied venture capital firm Sequoia Capital announced Thursday it has launched a crypto-focused fund with between $500 million and $600 milli...

Blockchain Company Alchemy Triples Valuation In Just Three Months To $10.2 Billion As Web3 Fever Rages

Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan (L) and CTO Joseph Lau (R) have spent most of their adult lives cofounding companies, including Alchemy, together. Alchemy In August 2020, Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau m...