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Mobile landing page builder Beacons has raised $6 million seed round to expand its vision for empowering creators to make money beyond the cramped confines of their social media profiles. The company, co-founded by Neal Jean, Jesse Zhang, Greg Luppescu and David Zeng, provides anyone who uses social media a single, mobile-optimized link hub to […]

Beacons raises $6 million for its link-in-bio homepage builder that ...

This entry was posted in Andreessen Horowitz Social software TC and tagged social media on May 24, 2021 by Taylor Hatmaker

Buzzy face-swapping video app Reface is expanding its reality-shifting potential beyond selfies by letting users upload more of their own content for its AI to bring to life. Users of its iOS and Android apps still can’t upload their own user generated video but the latest feature — which it calls Swap Animation — lets […]

Reface now lets users face-swap into pics and GIFs they ...

This entry was posted in Andreessen Horowitz Apps artificial intelligence deep learning Social TC and tagged social media on May 17, 2021 by Natasha Lomas

U.S.-based challenger bank Current, which has now grown to nearly 3 million users, announced this morning it has raised a $220 million round of Series D funding, led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The funding swiftly follows Current’s $131 million Series C at the end of last year, at which point the company had […]

Mobile bank Current raises $220 million Series D, triples valuation ...

This entry was posted in Andreessen Horowitz Finance Mobile mobile payments money TC on April 27, 2021 by Sarah Perez

Buzzy “social audio” app Clubhouse has raised a Series C funding round, reportedly valuing the company at $4 billion. Clubhouse said the new round of financing was led by Andrew Chen of Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from DST Global, Tiger Global and Elad Gil. This round means Clubhouse has tripled the valuation it attained in […]

Clubhouse closes an undisclosed $4B valuation Series C round, as ...

This entry was posted in Andreessen Horowitz Social Startups TC on April 19, 2021 by Mike Butcher

Buzzy face-swap video app Reface, which lends users celebrity ‘superpowers’ by turning their selfies into “eerily realistic” famous video clips at the tap of a button, has caught the attention of Andreessen Horowitz. The Silicon Valley venture firm leads a $5.5 million seed round in the deep tech entertainment startup, announced today. Reface tells us […]

Reface grabs $5.5M seed led by A16z to stoke its ...

This entry was posted in Andreessen Horowitz Apps artificial intelligence Fundings & Exits machine learning Social social apps TC on December 8, 2020 by Natasha Lomas

Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions into isolation, video games are seeing a surge in usage as people seek entertainment and social interaction. When we surveyed gaming-focused VCs in October, Andreessen Horowitz partner Jonathan Lai predicted that “next-generation games will be bigger than anything we’ve seen yet,” eventually reaching “Facebook scale.” This month, […]

5 top gaming investors explain how the pandemic is reshaping ...

This entry was posted in Andreessen Horowitz Gaming Social Startups TC on April 28, 2020 by Eric Peckham

Some Libra Association members like Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase are double-dipping, backing a competing cryptocurrency developer platform. Launching today with over 50 partners, non-profit The Celo Foundation’s ‘Alliance For Prosperity’ offers a way for developers to build decentralized mobile apps that are based on Celo’s blockchain platform and USD stablecoin. The open-source Celo platform is […]

Libra rival Celo launches 50-member Alliance For Prosperity

This entry was posted in Andreessen Horowitz Apps Developer eCommerce Mobile payments TC Venture Capital on March 11, 2020 by Josh Constine

Every day, there’s another event-related cancellation owing to concern around the coronavirus. Just today Microsoft announced it will not have a presence at the Game Developers Conference in mid-March “out of an abundance of caution.” Facebook also said today that it is canceling its annual F8 conference scheduled for May over coronavirus-outbreak concerns. The last […]