Andreessen Horowitz

  • Dwolla raises $16.5m round led by Andreessen Horowitz, adds SF office

    Des Moines-based Dwolla today announced it closed a $16.5 million Series C round led by Andreessen Horowitz, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture capital firm whose portfolio includes Airbnb, Pinterest and Stripe, another payments startup. Three of Dwolla’s previous investors, Village Ventures, Thrive Capital and Union Square Ventures, also participated …

  • AgLocal raises $1m led by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAir EP

    AgLocal has raised the first $1 million of a potentially larger seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAir Equity Partners, AgLocal CEO Naithan Jones said in a phone interview Thursday. The seed round also involves a variety of angel investors based in Kansas City and in Silicon Valley. The Kansas City contingent includes AgLocal…

  • Solum plans to take root in Iowa with new funding

    After recieving $100,000 from the Iowa Economic Development Authority one week and closing a $17 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz the next, California-based ag-tech startup Solum is planning to build a laboratory in Ames and staff it with local talent. Solum develops technologies for field sampling and analysis that aim to help…

  • Sunday Video: Marc Andreessen’s three criteria for startup success

    In my search for this Sunday’s video, I found a rare presentation that Marc Andreessen, former serial entrepreneur now of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, gave at Stanford University a few weeks ago. I have followed Marc for some time as he provides a precise understanding of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, both from an entrepreneur,…