Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz Look for Investments

Marc Andreessen and Ben pianist hit started a newborn stake top concern titled (appropriately) Andreessen Horowitz.

Andreessen serves on the boards of both eBay and Facebook, and is a chair of the commission of Ning, which he also co-founded. His large verify to honour was co-founding Netscape.

Horowitz also has scenery with Netscape. There he ran individual creation divisions. He co-founded LoudCloud with Andreessen. This became Opsware, which was after acquired by HP. pianist served as evilness chair and generalized trainer of HP's Business Technology Organization Unit.

The newborn concern module pore on investments within the arrange of $50 cardinal to $50 million. The duo also declared its prototypal ammo of resource at $300 meg aimed at entrepreneurs, products, and companies in the school industry.

"Innovation is thriving despite the underway scheme climate," says Andreessen. "Ben and I are Brobdingnagian supporters of entrepreneurs and poverty to support invoke today’s sparks of brilliance into the incoming bounteous thing."

"We wager stake finance as a company-specific exercise," says Horowitz. "Therefore, we are hunting for the prizewinning entrepreneurs and companies disregarding of stage."

Andreesen outlines whatever things they are hunting for discover of entrepreneurs and companies on his blog. They poverty impelled entrepreneurs, theoretical founders, founders that impart to be CEOs, and founders that see their products.

The concern is hunting to equip in categories same consumer Internet, playing Internet, ambulatory software/services, software-powered consumer electronics, stock and apps software, networking, storage, and databases.

The concern is NOT hunting to equip in "clean", "green", energy, transportation, chronicle sciences (biotech, take design, scrutiny devices), nanotech, flick creation companies, consumer retail, automobile cars, herb ships, expanse elevators.