Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has announced its backing of Ornn, a compute marketplace, in its recent seed funding round.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has announced its backing for a blockchain technology that is currently being utilized by major Wall Street financial institutions.

A partner at Andreessen Horowitz has reignited the debate over carried interest by publicly advocating for higher taxes on this form of investment income.

Andreessen Horowitz has backed a Saudi startup, marking the venture capital firm's inaugural investment in the Gulf region.

Andreessen Horowitz suggests that AI agents acting as independent economic actors is a plausible development within a five-year timeline. This forecast highlights the potential for significant shifts in the economic landscape due to AI.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has successfully raised $2.2 billion for its latest cryptocurrency fund, signaling continued strong investment in the digital asset space.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has successfully raised $2.2 billion in funding, earmarked for investment in the next generation of cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.

A pro-Trump Super PAC, Maga Inc, has amassed nearly $350 million in its war chest, including $35 million in March from donors like Diane Hendricks and Andreessen Horowitz, ahead of the midterm elections.

Jared Kushner's Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz are leading a $4 billion funding round for defense technology company Anduril.

Andreessen Horowitz has invested in unicorn company Kavak, leading a $300 million funding round.

George from Andreessen Horowitz discussed SpaceX's potential pathway to integrating artificial intelligence capabilities in space. This suggests future advancements in space technology and AI applications beyond Earth.

John O'Farrell, a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, has accused his old firm and other venture capitalists of attempting "political infiltration" around AI, specifically criticizing the PAC Leading the Future.

Fearn, a startup developing tools for patent drafting, has secured $5.5 million in seed funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Kindred Ventures.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz plans to establish an office in Japan by summer, as confirmed by a co-founder to Takaichi.

Marc Andreessen's firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has emerged as the largest known spender in the current political campaign cycle, demonstrating an unprecedented level of involvement in politics.

An Andreessen Horowitz partner stated that artificial intelligence is unlikely to eliminate human jobs, emphasizing its potential to augment rather than replace human labor. This perspective counters widespread concerns about AI's impact on employment.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has announced its latest investment in Monitoring the Situation (MTS), a new news company billed as the first 'timeline-native news network'.

A chart published by Andreessen Horowitz's a16z New Media, dubbed "Mamdani Mart," has been highlighted as a revealing illustration of the inefficiencies inherent in socialist economic systems. The chart quickly became one of the most popular financial market charts of the week.

David George of Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) discusses how private and public markets have increasingly converged, highlighting the evolving landscape of financial markets.

YouTube star MrBeast, Jimmy Donaldson, has hired a team from the Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup Pietra as part of his efforts to build a new creator platform.

Canton Network creator has successfully raised $355 million in a funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz's a16z crypto and backed by other Wall Street giants and a sovereign wealth fund. This significant investment will support the network's development.

Andreessen Horowitz has joined SPARQ's $8.5 million seed funding round as the AI-native game engine officially launches from Innovation City.

The founder of Andreessen Horowitz, an American venture capital firm, is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Takaichi to announce plans for establishing a base in Japan this summer, focusing on defense sector investments.

A new startup founded by former Apple and Andreessen Horowitz employees has secured $20 million in funding to develop AI solutions for 'real economy' businesses.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has successfully closed a new crypto fund valued at $2.2 billion.

Andreessen Horowitz's crypto division successfully raised $2.2 billion for its fifth venture fund, also promoting CTO Lazzarin to general partner.

Venture capital firms Lightspeed and Andreessen Horowitz have invested in an AI data center supplier, which has secured $4.2 billion in funding.

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BI Tech's elite are taking their talents to South Beach — again. In January, David Sacks, the venture capitalist and crypto and AI czar, proclaimed that Miami will soon replace New York City as America's financial capital. Stripe's Patrick Collison has been marveling at the city's "boomtown" vibes. With California flirting with a one-time tax on billionaires, said billionaires like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg are buying oceanfront mansions. And on Tuesday, Palantir announced that it's moving its headquarters from Denver to Miami. Is Miami the next Silicon Valley? We've been here before. The pandemic sent waves of coastal workers to the city, turning it into a Zoomtown full of online venture capitalists like Keith Rabois and Delian Asparouhov, bitcoin bull runners, and purveyors of the finest NFTs. Billboards went up in San Francisco featuring a mock tweet from then-Miami mayor Francis Suarez: "Thinking about moving to Miami? DM me." Here's the thing: It's easy to fall for Miami when a big chunk of the workforce is stuck at home and online. Five years later, it's a lot harder to build companies there. "Miami is great three months out of the year," says one prominent venture capitalist who moved to the city during the pandemic but is now returning to an established hub. While the Floridian tax benefits are real, the investor has found that the social scene hollows out in the summer as residents leave, making it "hard to build roots or have reliable friends." More critically for the startup ecosystem, the scene lacked the "hustle" of San Francisco or New York. Silicon Valley practically runs on a conveyor belt from Stanford and Caltech to Y Combinator's Dogpatch offices. The machine turns students into founders, builders into companies, and companies into the next wave of founders. Miami, meanwhile, lacks a major university to pipe in tech talent. Instead, the investor says, the city tends to attract people who have already "made it." Miami and Fort Lauderdale-based startups raised $3 billion in 2025. Bay Area-based startups raised $177 billion. The Miami market, while busy, significantly lags behind the major hubs. Startups in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro raised about $3 billion in 2025, per PitchBook, down from $8.6 billion in 2022, when money and crypto sloshed about. The Bay Area, by contrast, still grabs 52% of the nation's venture funding, with $177 billion in capital pouring in last year. Alligators may be all around in Miami, but unicorns are hard to find. In January, Cast AI, a startup that helps companies cut cloud costs, crossed the $1 billion valuation mark, becoming the region's first homegrown unicorn in years. Before that, Adam Neumann, the ousted WeWork cofounder, debuted his Miami residential real-estate venture, Flow, at a $1 billion valuation in 2022. Even Garry Tan, the Y Combinator president and gadfly who's usually first in line to dunk on San Francisco's politics, has been blunt about where the breeding grounds are best. Tan recently said on X that the accelerator still hasn't opened offices outside the Bay Area because founders are simply more likely to build unicorns there. According to a Business Insider analysis of Crunchbase data, of the at least 97 new unicorns that investors minted in 2025, 43 of them were based in the Bay Area. But those who dismiss the city entirely miss the point. Miami isn't the next San Francisco. It's establishing itself as something else. Patrick Murphy, a former Florida congressman and entrepreneur, says that Miami's tech scene is growing, it's just being built in "reverse order." Silicon Valley, he says, emerged from an if you build it, they will come approach: Engineers built great companies first, which eventually created fortunes that cycled back into the community to fund the next generation of companies. Miami, however, has a more if you come, they will build it tact. It's attracted the "wealth achievers" first — the family offices, private equity names, and already-successful founders who emigrated for lifestyle reasons. Finance heavyweights like Citadel and Thoma Bravo arrived early. Vanguard, one of the world's largest asset managers, is eyeing an expansion in Miami as it targets more Latin American wealth. The city is now importing the machinery that follows them. Legal, accounting, and consulting firms are opening local offices to stay close to clients — and scoop up star talent that no longer needs to live near HQ. This dynamic has established Miami as a "control center" for decision-makers, Murphy argues, but not yet the "factory floor" where the actual work gets done. Murphy says that despite running a successful construction-tech startup, Togal.AI, his engineering team has been offshore from the beginning because the local talent pool simply "didn't exist" when he started in 2019. "If you go to Miami, you're not going to see dozens of engineers at a Starbucks cranking away," he says. "That's not here yet." Still, Miami's flood of wealth is creating demand for startups built on the city's local economy, especially in property tech and fintech, Murphy says. Togal.AI's annual recurring revenue has grown 1,000% over the past two years, Murphy says, and is now raising fresh venture funding in order to hire dozens of new employees this year. Palantir's move immediately became a kind of Rorschach test for Miami's future. "Florida is the new crypto," one user wrote on X. Maya Bakhai, a Fort Lauderdale resident and founder of the early-stage venture firm Spice Capital, tells me that the city will flourish alongside "net new" industries that are still taking shape and where the center of gravity isn't locked in yet. Crypto firms like MoonPay and QuickNode still treat South Florida as a home base, she notes. A new space-tech accelerator backed by the state is trying to persuade founders to stick around by pairing them with funders. Bakhai's bigger bet is that just as New York became the hub for e-commerce, Miami could become the place where creator businesses get built. Research out of the University of Hong Kong found Miami has more top influencers per capita than New York or Los Angeles. And then there's Palantir, the strongest signal flare yet that tech is taking America's Playground seriously. It's hard to know what the data giant's HQ move will mean in practice — Palantir hasn't said how many employees it plans to relocate, or whether it will offer moving packages to lure talent south. The company did not respond to an email request for comment. If Palantir does move a meaningful slice of its workforce, it would give Miami something it's been short on: a marquee tech employer that can recruit and keep technical workers on the ground year-round. On X, Palantir's move immediately became a kind of Rorschach test for Miami's future. ""Florida is the future," cheered Andreessen Horowitz investor Katherine Boyle. Others were less convinced. "Florida is the new crypto," one user wrote. "For the next 20 years, nothing will change, but they will always tell you 'big things are happening in Florida.'" Turning Miami into Silicon Beach is a long game, Bakhai argues. It won't be built by the billionaires buying houses to snowbird in today, she argues, but by the young strivers arriving for their first serious jobs — the entry-level analysts heading to Citadel and the junior lawyers starting at firms like Orrick. For the first time, she says, ambitious graduates can launch careers in Miami instead of treating New York or San Francisco as the default. The payoff, she says, comes years later, when they eventually spin off to start their own companies. Until then, Miami remains largely a playground for the "made it" crowd, waiting in the sun for the builders to come. Melia Russell is a reporter with Business Insider, covering the intersection of law and technology. Read the original article on Business Insider