{"id":398444,"date":"2026-01-10T02:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/398444\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T02:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:55:15","slug":"andreessen-horowitz-raises-15-billion-doubling-down-on-ai-and-defense-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/398444\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreessen Horowitz raises $15 billion, doubling down on AI and defense startups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">By Deborah Mary Sophia and Krystal Hu<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Andreessen Horowitz has raised more than $15 billion across five new funds less than two years after its \u200blast fundraising haul, the venture capital firm said on Friday, as large VC funds \u200ccontinue to attract capital to meet strong investor appetite for technology startups, amid the rapid adoption of <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Andreessen \u200cHorowitz, also known as a16z, raised $6.75 billion for a growth fund aimed at scaling up startups, $1.7 billion for an AI infrastructure fund and $1.12 billion for another focused on investing in national interests like defense, housing and supply chain, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">VC fundraising remains challenging because of the poor exit \u2060performance of the past few \u200cyears. Just $118.6 billion in new commitments were closed last year, nearly $100 billion lower than 2024. The number of new funds closed in 2025 was \u200dalso the lowest in the past decade, according to PitchBook data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">A16z&#8217;s funding haul shows how the largest and scaled venture capital firms are still able to amass more capital from limited partners in a rather \u200bslow fundraising environment for VC firms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">AI and defense tech have emerged as bright spots \u200cwith the U.S. doubling down on keeping its global technological lead amid growing competition from China. Marc Andreessen, co-founder at a16z, has been a prominent supporter and major donor to President Donald Trump, and an advisor to the administration&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;The technology landscape that we will be investing into is&#8230; intensely competitive with China&#8230; At this moment of profound technological \u2060opportunity, it is fundamentally important for humanity that America \u200bwins,&#8221; said Ben Horowitz, a16z co-founder and general partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">A16z \u200bwas seeking to raise a roughly $20 billion megafund for AI-focused growth-stage investments, Reuters exclusively reported last April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">It is one of Silicon Valley&#8217;s biggest venture capital firms \u200dand has backed industry \u2060giants such as Facebook, Instagram, Coinbase and Lyft, making it a key force behind the global dominance of U.S. tech companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">In its last major fundraising in April 2024, \u2060a16z raised $7.2 billion across five different funds. The firm currently has over $90 billion in assets under management across \u200call its funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru and Krystal Hu in San \u200cFrancisco; Editing by Leroy Leo and Diane Craft)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Deborah Mary Sophia and Krystal Hu Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Andreessen Horowitz has raised more than $15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,57583,181,507,43508,3115,12951,74,108612,192430],"class_list":["post-398444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-andreessen-horowitz","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ben-horowitz","tag-fundraising","tag-marc-andreessen","tag-technology","tag-technology-startups","tag-venture-capital-firm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}