Andreessen Horowitz has raised a whopping $15 billion in new funding. And $1.7 billion of that goes to the company’s “infrastructure team.” This team is responsible for some of the company’s largest and most prominent AI investments, including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, Eleven Labs, Ideogram, Fal, and dozens of others.
General Partner of A16z Infrastructure Team Jennifer Li (oversaw investments including Eleven Labs, valued at just $11 billion). Ideagram and Fal have a clear theory about where the team intends to spend its latest money.
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