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Félix Pago, a stablecoin remittance startup, has raised $200 million from investors including Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, known as a16z.

The venture firm is broadening its financial firepower as artificial intelligence reshapes how quickly promising startups reach major growth milestones.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion. That means the firm added another $1.75 billion since the fund launched in January with $6.75 billion.

Add to Google Preferred Sources Silicon Valley venture capital giant a16z has closed its first hardware infrastructure fund, “Machine Age,” at $1.1 billion, targeting AI processors, memory chips, networking equipment, and robotics. The fund is co-led by former VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram and general partner Martin Casado. a16z cites intensifying AI infrastructure supply bottlenecks and…

Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new “Machine Age” fund with $1.1 billion raised. The firm’s aim with the new fund is to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI.”

The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into Andreessen Horowitz’s board seat practices, a move that’s sending ripples of concern through Sand Hill Road. The probe marks the first time federal regulators have turned their scrutiny toward the standard practice of VCs securing board representation in exchange for funding, raising questions about whether decades-old…

Following a Bloomberg report that the Department of Justice is investigating venture firm Andreessen Horowitz for holding board seats with rival AI companies, VCs told TechCrunch that they were baffled.

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Andreessen Horowitz has made headlines for its American dynamism thesis, but a U.S. passport is no requirement. According to Gabriel Vasquez, a partner focusing on AI apps and the firm’s global investment strategy, “44% of our investments in the Apps Fund One and Two have an international founder.”