Bio

Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are. He also created the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund to connect the greatest cultural leaders to the best new technology companies, and enable more young African Americans to enter the technology industry. Prior to a16z, Ben was cofounder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007, and was appointed vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software at HP. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online’s E-commerce Platform division, where he oversaw development of the company’s flagship Shop@AOL service. Previously, Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. He also served as vice president of Netscape’s widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line. Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation. Ben has an MS in Computer Science from UCLA and a BA in Computer Science from Columbia University. Ben serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Caffeine, Databricks, Foursquare, Genius, Magnet Systems, Medium, NationBuilder, Okta, Sisu, Tanium, TripActions, United Masters, and Usermind.

Career

Andreessen Horowitz - founder

Venture capital firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

General Partner

From Dec 2009

Email: [email protected]

Education

Investment preferences

Stage focus

Pre Seed

Seed

Top investment portfolio themes

fintech (1)

wealth management (1)

personal finance (1)

Actual initial investment stage

Seed (1)

Selected investments

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	Profile	Country	Date	Funding
ExtraHop Networks Inc	Network and application performance management (APM) software company.	United States	1 Apr 2009	Series A
Metaplace Inc	Social gaming technology and game design.	United States		N/A
Nicira Networks Inc	Software company that specializes in data transition and virtualization software.	United States		Seed
Asana Inc		United States	1 Apr 2009	Seed
Wealthfront Inc	Online financial advisor that manages your investments for you so you can live your life.	United States	16 Dec 2008	Seed