Today a16z is officially going global! @GEVS94 and I started a16z’s Borderless Founder network 5 years ago with a simple premise: many of the best founders in the world will come from outside the U.S. And one of the most powerful things we can do is to help accelerate their global networks - bridges into the U.S., and deeper connectivity in their home markets. The data backs this strategy up: - Immigrants have founded or cofounded 59% of America’s privately held billion-dollar startups, including companies like SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Databricks, Stripe, Ramp, Safe Superintelligence, and Anysphere. - One in four U.S. billion-dollar companies has a founder who first came to America as an international student. Today we are announcing and bringing together our global initiatives. The next generation of category defining companies could be born anywhere but will scale everywhere. Proud to be part of this team! Read more in @bhorowitz blog below 👇

It was wonderful to spend time with President Sheinbaum today. She is a fantastic leader and I look forward to working with her on many things.

After coding is solved, the next frontier is computer use. Today, we are launching Use Computer, the infra for evaluating and training models to use all kinds of computers 👇

Claude is telling me not to procrastinate

Even the best jogging strollers are hard to push and muck with your stride 🏃‍♀️ maybe this is the solve 😂

Distribution advantage > product advantage (10x better product can drive distribution- but so rare. 99% of builders need another strategy)

Our global mission @a16z 🌎 New Tokyo office 🇯🇵 And inspiring new leadership Head of global affairs @AnneNeuberger Head of global partnerships @jkhamehl Leading international growth for our portfolio @RaghuRaghuram Nurturing international communities of founders and builders @GEVS94 @astrange Excited to join forces with all of these teams across our firm in scaling patient access to new medicines and new healthcare models — globally! @a16zBioHealth

Can’t think of anyone better for this. Europe’s waiting!

Excited to be part of the team tackling our global efforts and to help spearhead our international investing alongside my partner @astrange! We believe AI is the great equalizer. For the first time, billions of people can access PhD-level intelligence from a phone. Talent is more distributed than ever, and Silicon Valley is ultimately a state of mind. We’re already seeing this shift play out. Great global companies are being born outside the U.S. and scaling faster than ever: ElevenLabs, Black Forest Labs, Mistral, Lovable, Decart, Manus, Sakana, Wonderful, and many others are just the beginning. Our goal is simple: build a bridge between the United States and the world’s best founders, operators, and technologists — and partner with them to win globally. We’ll also continue doubling down on immigrant founders in the U.S. through our Borderless network. Immigrants have founded or co-founded 59% of America’s privately held billion-dollar startups, including companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, Databricks, Stripe, Ramp, Safe Superintelligence, Anysphere, Vercel, and RunwayML. The next generation of category-defining companies will be born anywhere and scale everywhere, and we want to be the partner of choice for the founders building them. Read More on Ben Horowitz Blog Post: a16z.com/a16zs-global-missio…

Today, we're introducing Lassie and $47M in funding led by a16z. We're building AI that runs small businesses, starting with doctors' offices. Lassie is already trusted by 700 practices across the country, working autonomously to provide them with 30 hours of labor per month. To get here, we first had to leave Robinhood and Superhuman to work in offices ourselves. Here's how that went.

Reference any founder @JeffreyReitman has worked with -- and they will say he's on the sharpest, hardest working, high integrity and helpful investors on their cap table. Can't wait to work with him at his new fund!! 🚀

Unclear if a durable trend, but CEOs and CTOs are back to coding with a fury, thanks to coding agents. I have public company CEOs sliding into my DMs (and “InMail”) telling me about falling in love with shipping software again thanks to Claude Code and Vercel. “Dream accounts” that we always wanted to work with, where in the past the C-suite would hardly understand the infrastructure until much later in the game. Coding agents are the ultimate PLG-fication of the enterprise. Bad, legacy software can’t hide anymore. The stack that works is self-evident to the entire organization, from intern to CEO.

Enjoyed the convo w @astrange on the @a16z show! "That difficulty is the defensibility." 🦁 A global enterprise operating in 10 countries shouldn't need 10 vendors, 10 bank relationships, and 10 different finance stacks. That's the problem Jeeves was built to solve from Day 1. Really enjoyed this conversation with Angela Strange on the a16z show. Jeeves has lived through two distinct eras: pre AI stablecoin, and post. We covered a lot of the thinking that got us back into a period of re-acceleration, including: 🏗️ Why owning your own infrastructure stack is what made stablecoin adoption possible at scale. When you control your own ledger across 25 countries, adding stablecoin as a settlement layer is a natural extension. Today, stablecoins power cards and payments across three continents. 🌎 How to earn enterprise trust in hard markets like Latin America, where regulation, payments, underwriting, and compliance all have to be solved country by country before you can scale. And how this is the blueprint for global expansion. 🤖 How AI completely changed our stack and margin profile — letting us grow revenue 8x in two years with fewer FTEs than before by automating underwriting, reconciliation, KYB, and customer support at scale. 🧭 Why the tough decisions we made in 2023 took two years to bear fruit; and why as a founder you have to follow your gut, win or lose. That's the nature of building a global business bank. That’s the nature of building something difficult. That’s the nature of Jeeves. youtu.be/MpKy4qr2wbc

Gamma is hosting a FREE event with Malcolm Gladwell, Bobbi Brown, Mike Birbiglia, and the Abdala Brothers as part of NYC TECH WEEK by a16z For my NY friends, come by The Hammerstein Ballroom on June 3rd, we'd love to see you. partiful.com/e/fCEfTvswCDe1l…

AI’s next generational company might come from its least sexy market: compliance! The US spends $40B on compliance labor. And yet the system still doesn’t work. "Compliance officer" has been the 5th fastest-growing occupation over the past two decades, with 400,000 employed in the US alone. Every dollar that moves through a company triggers compliance somewhere: payroll, taxes, payments, KYC, AML, audits, reporting. The old answer was hire more people. The new answers are much better 👇 New post by @jamdac & me great companies to watch. What else should we be thinking of?

Today @omooretweets and I are excited to announce we are leading a round in Arc: The only voice AI platform built to optimize your drive-thru like e-commerce. @maclennanm built and ran the hardware team at Square. @alihussaincs led product engineering at Cash App. 4 in 10 Americans use a drive-thru each week!  And while we often think of them as giant corporations, 70 - 80% are locally owned franchises that are important parts of their communities. @MeetArc is already demonstrating 5-10% better order accuracy and similar uplift in order size. No more missing milkshakes for the kids. Higher tickets. Better accuracy. Happier crews.

Excited to announce @meetarc's $10.76M seed, led by @a16z! Arc brings quick service restaurants into the AI era, starting with drive-thru voice agents. Founders @maclennanm @alihussaincs shipped products for the real world at Block - and Arc is live serving customers 👇