{"id":56269,"date":"2022-01-20T16:28:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T14:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=56269"},"modified":"2025-09-04T05:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:34:57","slug":"media-reports-that-a16z-plans-to-raise-4-5-billion-across-two-new-crypto-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/media-reports-that-a16z-plans-to-raise-4-5-billion-across-two-new-crypto-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Media reports that a16z plans to raise $4.5 billion across two new crypto funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) aims to raise up to $4.5 billion across two new crypto funds, according to the <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/6bf0ed56-1de5-4750-877f-c9cff753935c\\\">Financial Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, the firm told investors that it would raise $3.5 billion for a venture fund and another $1 billion for seed investments in the Web 3.0 space. The plans are expected to be confirmed in March.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>If realized, this would mark the largest amount raised to date for investing in projects in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In June 2021, a16z launched its third crypto fund in <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/andreessen-horowitz-launches-third-crypto-fund-worth-2-2-billion\">size of $2.2 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In November of that year Paradigm announced the creation of an investment fund <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/paradigm-launches-2-5-billion-venture-fund-to-back-crypto-projects\">with assets of $2.5 billion<\/a> to back \u201cnext-generation\u201d projects in digital assets. Hivemind Capital Partners, the firm of former Citi executive Matt Zhang, raised $1.5 billion for a similar vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In January, the FTX exchange launched a venture arm <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-launches-2-billion-venture-fund\">with a budget of $2 billion<\/a> to invest in crypto startups.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, former a16z partner Katie Haun, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/crypto-investor-katie-haun-to-leave-andreessen-horowitz-for-her-own-venture\">who left the firm<\/a> to pursue her own project, is planning to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/former-a16z-partner-cathy-haun-plans-to-raise-900-million-for-two-new-crypto-funds\">raise $900 million<\/a> for two crypto funds.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Her vehicles have already backed several startups, including the NFT platform Autograph in <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-platform-autograph-led-by-nfl-star-tom-brady-raises-170-million\">a $170 million investment round<\/a>, led by a16z and Kleiner Perkins.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">VK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) plans to raise up to $4.5 billion across two new crypto funds, according to the Financial Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[848,1133],"class_list":["post-56269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-andreessen-horowitz","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56271,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56269\/revisions\/56271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}