a16z crypto

Andreessen Horowitz, through its a16z crypto division, manages venture capital funds dedicated to investing in cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. Based in Menlo Park, California, the firm's funds total over $300 million and support crypto startups from seed investments through later stages, offering traditional venture capital features tailored to the modern crypto landscape.

Anthony Albanese

COO

David George

General Partner

Sriram Krishnan

General Partner

Peter Levine

General Partner

Jesse Walden

Partner

Ali Yahya

General Partner

Past deals in Trading Platform

Biton

Venture Round in 2025
Biton is a full-chain ecology trading platform that offers services to simplify the trading process and mitigate cross-chain risks.

Seismic

Seed Round in 2025
Seismicy enables developers to establish innovative financial partnerships and investment instruments.

Universal

Venture Round in 2025
Universal is a wrapped asset protocol designed to enable trading for any token, on any chain.

Phantom

Series C in 2025
Phantom is a digital wallet specifically designed for decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It functions as a multichain wallet, allowing users to manage their cryptocurrency and NFT assets across various blockchain networks, with a primary focus on Solana. The Phantom wallet is available on multiple platforms, including mobile devices and browser extensions, enhancing accessibility for users engaged in digital finance. The wallet leverages secure and transparent digital ledger technology, enabling users to safely store, buy, send, receive, and swap tokens, as well as collect NFTs, all within a user-friendly interface.

Suave Money

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Suave Money is a stripe for crypto, and it accepts any crypto across all chains and receives the token of choice.

Dzone Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Dzone Finance is a cross-chain Dex and Bridge aggregator.

Lightspark

Seed Round in 2022
Lightspark is a company focused on enhancing the capabilities and utility of Bitcoin through the development of a crypto payment platform. This platform aims to provide an enterprise-ready infrastructure for open payments at scale, allowing businesses and developers to accept digital payments while facilitating immediate conversion to fiat currency. By leveraging the lightning network, Lightspark enables users to transform existing financial solutions and create new systems and services, thereby expanding access to digital payment technologies for a broader audience.

dYdX

Series A in 2018
dYdX is a prominent decentralized exchange that aims to empower traders by providing a secure and efficient trading platform. Founded in 2017 by Antonio Juliano, a former engineer at Coinbase and Uber, dYdX operates on Ethereum using audited smart contracts, which eliminates the need for trust in a central authority during trading. The platform offers a variety of financial products, including perpetual, margin, and spot trading, as well as borrow and lend pools. Users can earn interest on their deposits and engage in margin trading with customizable leverage options. By combining the security and transparency associated with decentralized exchanges with the speed and usability typically found in centralized platforms, dYdX strives to create an open financial system that grants universal access to advanced trading tools.
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