Andreessen Horowitz

ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ - Description and Overview

INVESTOR TYPE	Venture Capital
FOUNDED	07/2009
STATUS	Alive

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture fund which was launched by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz in July 2009. Andreessen Horowitz looks at companies across all stages and will invest as little as $50,000 and and as much as $50 million in a company per the firm. The fund expects to do many seed-stage investments in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Per the firm, they are open to participating in a variety of investment structures including buying founder shares, investing in public stocks, and contributing to leveraged buyouts. The firm's general partners, Horowitz and Andreessen, expect to participate on company Boards generally only when they've invested more than $5M.

In terms of investment criteria, Andreessen Horowitz expects to fund startups that (1) attack a large market, (2) have a technical founder who intends to be CEO and (3) in the domain of computer science and information technology.

Specifically, the firm will consider the following areas: (1) consumer internet, (2) business internet (SaaS / Cloud Computing), (3) mobile software and services, (4) software-powered consumer electronics, (5) infrastructure and applications software, (6) networking, (7) storage databases and (8) other back-end systems.

Geographically, Andreessen Horowitz is primarily interested in Silicon Valley-based startups but will opportunistically look at opportunities outside of Silicon Valley.

Per the firm, Andreessen Horowitz does not invest in clean tech, green tech, energy, transportation, life sciences (biotech, drug design, medical devices), nanotech, movie production companies, consumer retail, electric cars, rocket ships, space elevators.