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 Horowitz Venture capital firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz General Partner From Nov 2012 Email: [email protected]
	a16zcrypto The blockchain-focused investment arm of Andreessen Horowitz. General Partner Email: [email protected]
	Hunch Inc - founder Consumer-facing online decision engine Chief Executive Officer (past)
	SiteAdvisor Inc - founder Service that reports on the safety of web sites by crawling the web and testing the sites it finds for malware and spam. N/A (past)
	Bessemer Venture Partners Early stage venture capital firm. Associate (past)

Education

	Columbia University BA in Philosophy
	Harvard Business School MBA in Business Administration

Investment preferences

Stage focus

Pre Seed

Seed

Top investment portfolio themes

fintech (2)

crowdfunding (1)

software (1)

payments processing (1)

payments infrastructure (1)

unicorn (1)

YCS09 (1)

real estate (1)

YCW12 (1)

proptech (1)

crypto funds (1)

YCS07 (1)

consumer (1)

gaming (1)

Actual initial investment stage

Series A (2)

Fund Closing (2)

Series B (1)

Selected investments

Displaying 1 - 18 of 18

	Profile	Country	Date Sort ascending	Funding
42Floors Inc	Office space search engine.	United States	16 Nov 2012	Series A
Stripe Inc	Online payments platform.	United States	9 Jul 2012	Series B
Meddik Inc		United States	1 May 2012	Seed
Voxer LLC			1 Apr 2012	Venture
PandoDaily			1 Jan 2012	Seed
Canvas Networks Inc		United States	1 Jun 2011	Series A
Kickstarter Inc			1 Mar 2011	Venture
Optimizely Inc	Developer of online A/B testing solutions	United States	18 Nov 2010	Seed
Foursquare Labs Inc		United States	1 Jun 2010	Series B Initial investment
Stack Exchange	Questions and answers site for programmers		1 May 2010	Series A
Solve Media Inc	Digital media company that provides hosted advertising technology solutions.	United States	1 Jan 2010	Series A
OMGPOP Inc (i'minlikewithyou), (iilwy)	The most addicting site to play games, meet new people, and hang out.	United States	26 Jun 2008	Series A Initial investment
Knewton Inc	Online educational technology company, provides graduate management admission test and LSAT prep courses through live video online classrooms.	United States	21 May 2008	Series A
Convertro Inc		United States		N/A
Shrug Capital [Fund]				Fund Closing
Anti Fund	Venture capital fund founded by Geoffrey Woo and Jake Paul.			Fund Closing Initial investment
Canonical Crypto Fund I LP		United States		Fund Closing Initial investment