2025-02-05
Today Voldex — backed by a16z — announced some huge news, the acquisition of Brookhaven, one of the most popular games in the world! Brookhaven has some insane stats: - 120 million monthly active users - 60 billion lifetime visits - the # 1 game on Roblox I spoke to the [video]
Variety
Brookhaven, a top title on Roblox with 120M+ monthly players, was sold by its anonymous creator Wolfpaq to game developer Voldex for an undisclosed sum
Popular Roblox life simulation game “Brookhaven” has been acquired by game developer Voldex in a deal funded by Raine Partners and Shamrock Capital.
2024-02-13
The VR race is back on, with Apple's Vision Pro being launched this month, and the Quest outselling the XBox. I've invested in a handful of VR/AR/spatial startups, and have some big lessons learned that might be interesting...
TechCrunch
Appfigures data: 52% of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, vs. 5% of apps in the wider App Store, with an average price of $5.67
2024-01-05
“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.” —Niklaus Wirth The second programming language I ever learned as a kid was Pascal Sad to hear that the Swiss creator, Niklaus Wirth, just passed away after... [image]
The Register
Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth, who devised nine programming languages and won the Turing Award in 1984, dies at 89
2024-01-02
Idle speculation: - Siri and Safari search replaced with local LLM that runs on your next next gen iPhone - iLLM 😂 obv it won't be called that - iLLM answers 80% of what you ask, the rest it farms out to mega Apple-hosted LLM - Apple builds this on an open source LLM of course...
Joan Westenberg
With its emphasis on user privacy, Apple is one of the few tech companies that could develop new AI data usage paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards
2024-01-01
Idle speculation: - Siri and Safari search replaced with local LLM that runs on your next next gen iPhone - iLLM 😂 obv it won't be called that - iLLM answers 80% of what you ask, the rest it farms out to mega Apple-hosted LLM - Apple builds this on an open source LLM of course...
Joan Westenberg
With its emphasis on user privacy, Apple is one of the few tech companies that can develop new AI data usage paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards
Joan Westenberg : Threads: @parkert , @rstephens , @joanwestenberg , @joanwestenberg , @parkerortolani , @justinfineberg_ , and @hi.im.vijay . X: @andrewchen Threads: Parker Thomp...
2023-12-31
Idle speculation: - Siri and Safari search replaced with local LLM that runs on your next next gen iPhone - iLLM 😂 obv it won't be called that - iLLM answers 80% of what you ask, the rest it farms out to mega Apple-hosted LLM - Apple builds this on an open source LLM of course...
Joan Westenberg
With its emphasis on user privacy, Apple is one of the few tech companies that can develop new AI data usage paradigms, setting much-needed industry standards
Apple has carved out a prestigious position in the consumer tech market through sleek designs, user-friendly interfaces, and a robust ecosystem.
2023-06-26
Excellent essay from @noam on “The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google” https://post.news/... Lots of great learnings, summarized by chatGPT 😎 1. The co-founders of Waze established a valuation framework before entertaining... https://twitter.com/...
Ynetnews
An interview with early Waze investors Yahal Zilka and Ehud Levy on why they invested, the impact of Google's acquisition on Israel's tech industry, and more
The disregard for map companies, the dilemma between BlackBerry and iPhone, the indifference on the part of Tim Cook …
2023-01-20
Also fun that Plai is now one of several dozen startups that a16z has backed in LA! 🌴🌴🌴 The tech ecosystem is booming in SoCal - have loved living here and see it grow https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Myspace co-founders Chris DeWolfe and Aber Whitcomb's PLAI Labs raised a $32M seed led by a16z to build social platforms leveraging generative AI and Web3
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
2022-05-26
Congrats to my colleagues on the a16z crypto team - @cdixon @AriannaSimpson @sriramk @alive_eth @carrawu @janehk @eddylazzarin @milesjennings @guywuolletjr @VirtualElena and friends - on the launch of Crypto fund 4! Excited for the future of web3 and to collab 😎 https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Andreessen Horowitz announces a $4.5B crypto fund, its fourth and largest so far, allocating about $1.5B for seed investments and $3B for venture investments
Since the advent of computing in the 1940s, there has been a major computing …
2022-05-19
Personal update: Today, I'm excited to be part of a16z's newest fund - a project that's taken years of teamwork to put together A16Z GAMES FUND ONE: A new $600M fund to build the future of games ... and we're dropping a hype vid. ... and blog: https://a16z.com/... 🚀🚀🚀 https://twitter.com/...
VentureBeat
An interview with a16z's Jonathan Lai on Games Fund One, the VC firm's new $600M fund for games that will invest in studios, infrastructure, and technologies
Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $600 million fund to invest in games. The storied venture capital firm is already a big investor in games … Source: Andreessen Horowitz .
2022-01-20
Big news! I'm leading the Seed round for Filmhub, a new marketplace startup disrupting film in Hollywood! Started by @kbadelt, a composer for films like The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, and Pirates of the Caribbean + @alandescrag, from the tech world. https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Filmhub, which lets filmmakers distribute their work to over 100 streaming channels, including Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV, raises a $6.8M seed led by a16z
2022-01-09
Announcing a couple new funds at A16z 😎 https://twitter.com/...
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz raises $9B across three funds: a $1.5B Bio Fund, a $5B Growth Fund, and a $2.5B Venture Fund
2022-01-08
Announcing a couple new funds at A16z 😎 https://twitter.com/...
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz raises $9B across three funds: a $1.5B Bio Fund, a $5B Growth Fund, and a $2.5B Venture Fund
Ben Horowitz / Andreessen Horowitz :
2021-11-16
It's still early days for Substack - but incredible momentum so far! https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Substack says it has reached 1M paying subscribers, up from 250,000 last December
Many top journalists have left legacy media to go it alone on publishing platform — Newsletter start-up Substack has reached 1m paying subscribers, underlining the growing power ...
2021-11-11
Doubling down on @SandboxVR with Craft and Alibaba! Steve and the team have been on a wild journey during COVID, and have now fully recovered and exceeded on every metric They're back in business, just in time to build the Metaverse 😎 Congrats @zhaosaurus and team! https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Sandbox VR, which offers VR experiences at a dozen retail locations worldwide, raises a $37M Series B led by a16z, following its $68M Series A in 2019
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
2021-08-28
Quick announcement: Excited to be working with my dear friend and ex-Uber colleague @jahan on his new company, Firemaps — a new marketplace startup to minimize fire risk to peoples' homes. Couldn't come at a better time! https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Firemaps, which uses drones to make 3D models of houses and provides a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires, raises a $5.5M seed round led by a16z
a new marketplace startup to minimize fire risk to peoples' homes. Couldn't come at a better time! https://techcrunch.com/...
2021-04-19
👇🏼fyi here's the official thread on the clubhouse series c https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
Source: Clubhouse's latest round values the startup at $4B
Audio-chat app Clubhouse closed a new Series C round of financing, the company said during its weekly town hall on Sunday, without disclosing the amount raised. — A source famili...
some news: a16z leads the Series C for Clubhouse 😎 Also excited to be working with @eladgil, DST, Tiger, many 100s of creators/individuals on the next leg of our adventure! The focus will be on creators, scaling, and monetization. Blog post from Clubhouse team coming soon!
Reuters
Source: Clubhouse's latest round values the startup at $4B
Audio-chat app Clubhouse closed a new Series C round of financing, the company said during its weekly town hall on Sunday, without disclosing the amount raised. — A source famili...
2021-04-01
Nick Clegg (VP of Global Affairs, Facebook) writes on the interaction between algorithmic feeds and individual choice. In response to a recent Atlantic article about the product being a “Doomsday Machine” - worth a read. https://nickclegg.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Medium
Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to continually push users toward more extreme content
In — a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”
2021-03-31
Announcement: A16z is leading Substack's $65M Series B! This is one of my favorite startups on many levels, as a writer/author. I'm proud to be an investor 😎 The funding will be used to provide deeper value for writers on the platform. Details: https://blog.substack.com/...
Substack Blog