Emerging technologies evolve in cycles; in crypto, this includes periods of high activity, followed by so-called crypto winters. In the period marked by our...
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At a16z, marketplaces represent one of our favorite business models. Our annual Marketplace 100 provides insight into the latest consumer marketplace...
When computers were first built, each new application had to be programmed specifically for each chip. This was very complicated for developers and, as...
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Today we introduce the Marketplace 100, a ranking of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups...
We’ve watched large language models (LLMs) become mainstream over the past few years and have studied the implementations in the context of B2B applications....
Visa and Mastercard currently facilitate more than three-quarters of all credit card transactions in the United States, at a time when post-pandemic Americans are...
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The public market situation for healthtech can seem pretty depressing. Recently IPOed healthtech stocks are underperforming the broader market, with some falling...
General Partner Connie Chan on how leading brands are using AI and other technology to combine the serendipitous discovery of offline shopping with the...
The changing contours of the wealth management industry
The wealth management industry is in the middle of a transformation. Contributing factors include the ever-growing expectations...
The first time I tried Character.AI, it completely hijacked my husband’s birthday dinner. What had started as a party of 12 friends conversing quietly...