Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on September 13, 2016.
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Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised $15 billion to shore up bets across a variety of sectors, including infrastructure, health and what the firm calls “American dynamism,” co-founder Ben Horowitz said in a blog post Friday.
The bulk of the capital, $6.75 billion, will be earmarked for a growth fund and two $1.7 billion funds, one focused on apps and the other on infrastructure.
“At this moment of great technological opportunity, it is fundamentally important to humanity that America prevail,” Horowitz wrote. “No other country has so much opportunity for everyone to seize and build upon it. If America cannot win technologically, it will lose economically, militarily, geopolitically, and culturally. And so will the whole world.”
The post said Andreessen Horowitz has earmarked $3 billion to support other ventures and about $1.2 billion to fund U.S. interests such as aerospace and defense. Approximately $700 million will be earmarked for investments in biotechnology and health.
The amount raised represents 18% of the total venture capital allocated in the U.S. last year, Horowitz said. This is more than double the amount the company raised in 2024.
Since its founding in 2009, Andreessen Horowitz has grown into one of the most prominent venture capital firms, known for its early stage investments. facebook, coinbase and airbnb.
The Silicon Valley-based company has bet big on defense technology in recent years, investing in companies including Palmer Lucky’s Anduril, Elon Musk’s SpaceX and mechanical parts maker Hadrian.
The sector has benefited from President Donald Trump’s ambitious plan to reindustrialize America’s military and manufacturing base. The president this week also called for a $1.5 trillion defense budget for next year.
Horowitz and co-founder Marc Andreessen both supported President Trump in the 2024 election, but Horowitz later said he intended to donate to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.
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