Mr Christopher J. Dixon
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Chris Dixon
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KANDO id: 21939
Bio
Chris Dixon is a general partner. For the past six years, Chris has been an active seed and venture-stage investor at Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technology company that was acquired by eBay in 2011. Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies. Chris started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade.
Career
Andreessen HorowitzVenture capital firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz |
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a16zcryptoThe blockchain-focused investment arm of Andreessen Horowitz.Email: [email protected] |
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Hunch Inc - founderConsumer-facing online decision engine |
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SiteAdvisor Inc - founderService that reports on the safety of web sites by crawling the web and testing the sites it finds for malware and spam. |
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Bessemer Venture PartnersEarly stage venture capital firm. |
Education
Columbia UniversityBA in Philosophy
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Harvard Business SchoolMBA in Business Administration
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Selected investments
Displaying 1 - 18 of 18Company | Profile | Country | Date | Funding | ||
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Solve Media Inc | Digital media company that provides hosted advertising technology solutions. | Series A | ||||
Voxer LLC | Venture | |||||
42Floors Inc | Office space search engine. | Series A | ||||
Anti Fund | Venture capital fund founded by Geoffrey Woo and Jake Paul. | Fund Closing Initial investment | ||||
Canonical Crypto Fund I LP | Fund Closing Initial investment | |||||
Canvas Networks Inc | Series A | |||||
Convertro Inc | N/A | |||||
Foursquare Labs Inc | Series B Initial investment | |||||
Kickstarter Inc | Venture | |||||
Knewton Inc | Online educational technology company, provides graduate management admission test and LSAT prep courses through live video online classrooms. | Series A | ||||
Meddik Inc | Seed | |||||
OMGPOP Inc (i'minlikewithyou), (iilwy) | The most addicting site to play games, meet new people, and hang out. | Series A Initial investment | ||||
Optimizely Inc | Developer of online A/B testing solutions | Seed | ||||
PandoDaily | Seed | |||||
Shrug Capital [Fund] | Fund Closing | |||||
Stack Exchange | Questions and answers site for programmers | Series A | ||||
Stripe Inc | Online payments platform. | Series B |
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Behance Inc | Series A Initial investment Exited Trade sale |