Cryptocurrency investing isn’t for the faint of coronary heart. The risky cryptocurrency panorama is affected by the remnants of high-profile collapses akin to Terraform Labs, Three Arrows Capital, and FTX. Nonetheless, some enterprise capital corporations, notably funding powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz (generally referred to as a16z), proceed to realize traction within the cryptocurrency area.
in 2022 in Might, a16z introduced its fourth cryptocurrency fund, valued at $4.5 billion, bringing its whole funding raised from crypto and web3 alone to over $7.6 billion.
The corporate appears intent on staying in an trade that many conventional enterprise capital corporations have pulled out of. We need to know why. We even have questions on their web3 funding technique and extra. That is why we’re excited to have Arianna Simpson, Normal Associate at a16z, be part of us for a hearth chat at seethereality Disrupt 2023 September 19-21. in San Francisco.
Take heed to a16z Arianna Simpson at seethereality Disrupt 2023.
Regardless of the way you make investments, a $4.5 billion fourth spherical is simply too massive a quantity. We ask Simpson if the alternatives are equally robust and the place she sees them shaping up. We’re additionally curious how the corporate is managing not solely the notorious instability of the ecosystem, but additionally the influence of current high-profile financial institution closures on cryptocurrencies and looming regulation.
We’re excited to listen to Simpson’s tackle the way forward for web3 because the trade matures and reaches past tech and gaming fanatics to a wider client viewers. And that is just the start. There is no doubt we’ll have much more questions between now and September.
Arianna Simpson, a principal companion at a16z, invests in cryptocurrency. Earlier than becoming a member of the enterprise capital agency, Simpson based Autonomous Companions, an funding fund centered on cryptocurrencies and digital property. She additionally helped discovered Crystal Towers Capital, an early-stage fund that invests primarily in Y Combinator firms.
Simpson beforehand held gross sales and product roles at Fb and BitGo, a bitcoin and different digital forex safety firm. She earned a double diploma in worldwide politics and Spanish from Penn State College’s Schreyer Honors School.
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