Andreessen Horowitz He would seek to collect $ 20 billion for a technological investment fund focused on growth in growth in American artificial intelligence companies (IA).
The Fund will seek global investors who wish to invest in the American technology industry at a time when President Donald Trump encourages companies to manufacture products in the United States, Reuters reported Tuesday April 8, citing anonymous sources.
He is in his early days and could take several months to close, according to the report.
Andreessen Horowitz did not immediately respond to the request for comment from Pymnts.
The new fund would be the largest in the venture capital company and would only be exceeded by two Softbank vision fundone of which has collected $ 100 billion while the other has raised $ 56 billion, according to the report.
Sequoia CapitalWho has more than $ 56 billion in management as management, has a fund which is now $ 19.6 billion, according to the report.
Andreessen Horowitz currently has $ 45 billion in assets under management, according to the report.
A large part of the new company fund would be devoted to monitoring investments in AI companies in its portfolio, which includes Databricks And xaisaid the report.
Andreessen Horowitz announced in April 2024 that he had raised $ 7.2 billion to invest in technological startups, including those in the AI sector.
The firm declared at the time in a press release that most of the funding – $ 3.75 billion – would go to projects in its “growth” category, for these latest stages, while $ 1.25 billion would be allocated to companies that build an IA infrastructure and a billion dollars for startups creating AI applications.
It was reported Tuesday, the venture capital / the start-up space is in crisis mode while Trump’s new prices change the world stock market.
Bloomberg News report compared the atmosphere in VC companies in Silicon Valley while the week started at the start of the pandemic five years ago.
On March 10, it was reported that the excitement for AI had led to American start-up at a three-year summit, a large part of this funding for venture capital space focused on some very large private technological companies.
A financial period report said more than $ 30 billion had been invested in technological startups at this stage in the first quarter, with an additional $ 50 billion during fundraising.
