Andreessen Horowitz

In 2009, Marc Andreessen (Netscape Co-Founder) and Ben Horowitz launched venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and its first fund at $300 million. Andreessen Horowitz will fund technology start-ups with investments ranging from $50,000 to $50 million. The partners will focus on investments in the following industries: consumer Internet, business Internet (cloud computing, 'software as a service'), mobile software and services, software-powered consumer electronics, infrastructure and applications software, networking, storage, databases, and other back-end systems. The firm will not consider investments in the following domains: 'clean,' 'green,' energy, transportation, life sciences (biotech, drug design, medical devices), nanotech, movie production companies, consumer retail, electric cars, rocket ships, and space elevators. Andreessen Horowitz is primarily, but not entirely, focused on investing in Silicon Valley firms. The firm closed Andreessen Horowitz Fund V at $1.5 billion in June of 2016.