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a16z Co-Invests in Dream, an AI Architecture Design Company Founded by Former Palantir Founders, as it Completes $17 Million Seed Round
According to TNW, San Francisco-based startup Dream has emerged from stealth, announcing the closing of a $17 million seed funding round. The investors include Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, XYZ, and Zigg Capital. Dream was co-founded by Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur, who each spent around a decade working at Palantir. The company develops an "architectural world model," trained using over 100 million square feet of permitted U.S. building data. The model understands the spatial relationships between building components, such as the routing of HVAC ducts through walls. The company states that the precision of the drawings generated by the model is sufficient for contractors to proceed directly with construction. Early operations will focus on commercial projects, including retail stores, offices, and data centers.
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AI app Wabi raises $55 million in funding, reaching a valuation of $1.25 billion.
According to TechCrunch, AI app company Wabi, founded by Replika creator Eugenia Kuyda, has raised $55 million, reaching a valuation of $1.25 billion. This round was led by IVP, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Forerunner, Amazon Alexa Fund, and others, alongside individual investors such as Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
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Kalshi Completes $1 Billion Series G Funding, Led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management
Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour announced that Kalshi has completed a $1 billion Series G funding round, led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management. Other investors participating in the round include Baillie Gifford, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Coatue Management, and Andreessen Horowitz, at a valuation of $40 billion. (The New York Times)
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Data analytics platform Hex raises $100 million in funding, valued at $1.2 billion
This funding round was led by Peak XV and 137 Ventures, with Amplify, Avra, a16z, Redpoint, Sequoia, and Zero Prime participating.
Alliance Partner Discusses a16z's Shift Toward Frontier Tech Investment: AI Infrastructure Development Mirrors Crypto's Past, This Shift May Spur Crypto Talent to Build Frontier Tech
Alliance General Partner Imran recently posted on X, sharing his views on a16z crypto's shift toward frontier technology sectors. He noted that a16z provided early endorsement for the crypto industry when Chris Dixon led Coinbase's investment in 2013; Marc Andreessen's 2014 New York Times op-ed "Why Bitcoin Matters" was a key factor that prompted him to transition into the Bitcoin industry. At the time, very few institutions and funds were willing to publicly support crypto, and a16z and USV were the two that took on brand risk.Imran believes that the current development of AI infrastructure has benefited considerably from Bitcoin mining infrastructure and talent flowing from crypto to AI. Shifting toward frontier tech such as robotics, biology, AI, energy, and compute means that the talent and capabilities accumulated in the crypto industry over the past decade can be used to build the entire frontier tech sector. Citing data centers as an example, he noted that public and government resistance to data centers is growing, much like earlier resistance to crypto—yet today nearly all traditional financial institutions have embraced crypto to some extent.
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a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier, expanding investment scope from crypto to frontier tech startups
a16z co-founder and crypto business lead Chris Dixon announced that a16z Crypto will be renamed a16z Frontier, expanding its investment scope from crypto startups to a broader range of frontier technology sectors, with a focus on supporting companies developing new technologies, creating new markets, and potentially facing longer commercialization cycles. Dixon stated that this adjustment represents business expansion rather than an exit from the crypto space; the fund will continue to invest in crypto and related projects and promote sound crypto regulatory policies. The new fund will also focus on AI and the new products and markets it spawns, including autonomous machines, hardware-software integrated startups, and new types of networks connecting humans and agents.Dixon believes that blockchain will play an important role in this round of technological transformation, that stablecoins are becoming a common tool for fintech companies and traditional institutions, and that blockchain is also expected to support machine-to-machine transactions and provide native economic capabilities for new types of networks. The fund will be jointly led by Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, along with Eddy Lazzarin and Guy Wuollet.
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a16z will remove "Crypto" from its flagship blockchain fund name.
According to The Information, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) will remove "Crypto" from the name of its flagship blockchain fund and shift its focus to other investment areas; its first founding member will also step down.
a16z's Flagship Blockchain Fund to Drop "Crypto" from Its Name, First Founding Member Also Departing
Odaily report: According to The Information, a16z will remove "Crypto" from the name of its flagship blockchain fund and shift its focus to other investment areas; the fund's first founding member will also depart.
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Eka Robotics Closes $150 Million Series A Funding Round Led by a16z and F-Prime
According to TechCrunch, robotics startup Eka Robotics announced it has closed a $150 million Series A round, reaching a post-money valuation of $1.45 billion, co-led by a16z and F-Prime. The company was founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja. Eka has developed a manipulation architecture that combines force-sensitive grippers with a "vision-force-action" model, differing from the mainstream "vision-language-action" models. By leveraging physics simulators and large-scale reinforcement learning training, the model can generate thousands of hours of robotic experience in just minutes. According to the company, its robots can grasp approximately 1,500 objects weighing no more than 1 kilogram per hour (compared to about 600 for humans), with a success rate exceeding 95%. The gripper hardware costs less than $1,000, with a rated lifespan of 5 million cycles, aiming to meet the industry standard of 20 million cycles for industrial robotic arms.
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Vitalik: Ethereum can support various signature algorithms through EIP-8288, eliminating the need for new precompiles.
Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) stated that the ideal path for supporting various cryptographic algorithms lies in EIP-8288: users locally generate arbitrary signatures, produce STARK proofs, and submit them on-chain via a STARK aggregator. This avoids consuming calldata on-chain, so Ethereum no longer needs to add new precompiles. He also noted that if lattice cryptography (Lattice) is proven to be secure against AI attacks, it could still be utilized for accounts, wallets, and similar applications via precompiles in the future. Previously, Starknet co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson pushed back against related views from a16z, arguing that the rich mathematical structure of lattice cryptography makes it susceptible to AI attacks. Furthermore, the simplified variant based on Module SIS only emerged in 2012 and lacks sufficient maturity. He recommended waiting another three to five years until AI has thoroughly stress-tested these approaches before deploying them to custody large asset balances.
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LayerZero Launches Post-Quantum Signature Aggregation System Aerie, Capable of Aggregating Over 32,000 Signatures in 0.65 Seconds
Odaily News: LayerZero Labs, in collaboration with the a16z Crypto research team, Carnegie Mellon University, and Imperial College London, has released new research findings on Aerie, aimed at improving the aggregation efficiency of post-quantum cryptographic signatures.According to the introduction, Aerie is built upon the previously launched lattice-based polynomial commitment scheme Akita. On a MacBook Pro equipped with an Apple M4 Max chip, using 16 CPU cores without GPU acceleration, it can aggregate 32,768 Falcon-512 signatures in 0.65 seconds, with peak memory usage of approximately 2.1 GiB.LayerZero stated that compared to the previous Orthus scheme, Aerie achieves approximately 1.5x faster proof generation, 38x faster verification, and approximately 1.7x smaller proof size. Additionally, Aerie supports aggregation of ML-DSA signatures standardized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with specific performance data to be released later.This research aims to provide a technical pathway for blockchain to achieve low-latency, post-quantum secure consensus without requiring specialized hardware.
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a16z: Mainstream E-Commerce Platforms Restrict AI Shopping Agents, Consumers Still Have Concerns About AI Placing Orders on Their Behalf
According to a16z researcher Moses Sternstein in his weekly publication "This Week in Charts", Agentic Commerce is encountering resistance. Major e-commerce platforms such as Amazon are beginning to block AI shopping agents. Cloudflare data shows that since this summer, the proportion of AI agents and crawlers receiving 403 "Forbidden" responses has approximately doubled compared to previous levels. The article suggests that e-commerce platforms are concerned about losing customer relationships and advertising revenue, as well as fraud and returns. Data from the National Retail Federation (NRF) indicates that the e-commerce return rate has roughly doubled since 2019, with total return costs having increased approximately threefold. Consumers also have concerns. Approximately 25% of respondents are willing to let AI handle purchases for most consumer goods (excluding luxury items), but 42% completely distrust AI placing orders on their behalf. Similarweb clickstream data reveals that consumers mainly use AI in the "middle stage" of shopping to compare products and prices, with final purchase decisions remaining primarily up to themselves.
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a16z cuts most of its portfolio's recruiting teams
According to Axios, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has laid off most of its 34-member portfolio recruiting team, which was primarily responsible for assisting portfolio companies with talent acquisition. Insiders revealed that the remaining members will be reassigned to specialized vertical investment divisions such as growth or cryptocurrency. a16z plans to allow each dedicated investment team to establish independent recruiting units based on their own business needs, rather than continuing to rely on the original centralized full-stack talent team. Those team members are still listed on the firm’s official website, and its spokesperson declined to comment on the matter.
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AI startup TypeSafe AI completes approximately $870 million funding round, led by a16z
Odaily News: AI startup TypeSafe AI has completed an approximately $870 million funding round led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), bringing the company's valuation to $7.5 billion.TypeSafe AI's AI model Jev quickly gained traction within weeks of its release. Co-founder Diogo Almeida said that after the launch video went viral, the company attracted significant attention from corporate executives, developers, and investors. Jev is currently used by approximately one-third of Fortune 500 companies and surpassed 1 million users within days. (Bloomberg)
Network School Completes New Funding Round at $2 Billion Valuation, Led by Polychain Capital
Odaily News: Network School has announced the completion of a new funding round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Coinbase, Balaji, and others. The specific amount of the funding was not disclosed, and the project is valued at $2 billion. Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder and CEO of Polychain Capital, announced the above information at the Network State conference.
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AI Fintech Company Valon Completes $150 Million Series D Funding Round at a $2.3 Billion Valuation
According to Tech Funding News, US AI fintech company Valon has closed a $150 million Series D funding round, reaching a post-money valuation of $2.3 billion, doubling its valuation from the previous round. The round was backed by existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with Ribbit Capital participating as a new investor.
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Crypto PAC Fairshake Announces Midterm Election Endorsement List, All 32 House Candidates Previously Supported the CLARITY Act
According to Cointelegraph, the crypto political action committee Fairshake, backed by Coinbase, Ripple Labs, and Andreessen Horowitz, announced it will fund 32 House candidates in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, including 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats. As an initial round, Fairshake will contribute $1 million each to the campaigns of six of these candidates, totaling $6 million. All 32 candidates previously voted in 2025 to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act). The bill had earlier failed to pass a crucial procedural vote in the Senate, and its subsequent progress remains uncertain.
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Blockchain Association Launches Vaults Workflow, Uniting Dozens of Member Institutions to Drive Policy Formulation
According to a post by the Blockchain Association (@BlockchainAssn), the Blockchain Association has officially launched the Vaults Workstream, bringing together dozens of leading member organizations including a16z Crypto, Aave, Uniswap, Grayscale, dYdX Foundation, Ethena, Morpho, and Multicoin to participate in Washington-based policy discussions on on-chain finance. As an emerging component of on-chain finance infrastructure, Vaults can provide users with diverse asset exposure, support composable and personalized investment strategies, and offer high flexibility in manual control, governance, and risk management. Members of this workstream will engage directly with the SEC to assist legislators in understanding Vault mechanics and the applicability of existing regulatory frameworks, with the goal of aligning regulatory rules with technological development to ensure the United States maintains its leading position in on-chain financial innovation.
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Jeeves Completes $110 Million Equity Financing to Accelerate Expansion of Stablecoin Banking Services
Jeeves has announced the completion of a $110 million equity financing round. The round was led by CoinFund, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Coinbase Ventures, AllianceBernstein, the Singapore Government Investment Corporation (GIC), and Y Combinator.
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Jeeves Inc. Completes $110 Million Series C Funding, Led by CoinFund
Odaily News: Jeeves Inc. has announced the completion of a $110 million Series C funding round, led by CoinFund, with participation from AllianceBernstein, Coinbase Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), among others. The company is a fintech firm and plans to use the funds to launch a stablecoin wallet and AI agents, as well as to provide instant payment services in more countries.
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