{"id":60054,"date":"2022-04-13T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60054"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:16:47","slug":"andreessen-horowitz-partner-tops-forbes-midas-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/andreessen-horowitz-partner-tops-forbes-midas-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreessen Horowitz Partner Tops Forbes&#8217; Midas List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) partner Chris Dixon has topped Forbes&#8217; Midas List of venture investors thanks to his bets in the crypto industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How Chris Dixon\u2019s Dive Down The Crypto Rabbit Hole Made Him The World\u2019s Top Venture Capitalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForbesMidas?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ForbesMidas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uJjQJdsvrp\">https:\/\/t.co\/uJjQJdsvrp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3CxhAVu3OC\">pic.twitter.com\/3CxhAVu3OC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Forbes (@Forbes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forbes\/status\/1513909861574131723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 2018 the venture firm launched its first crypto fund with $300 million in assets. a16z invested in the Bitcoin exchange Coinbase, the cryptocurrency hedge fund Polychain Capital, and the crypto-custody provider Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>On April 14, 2021, the day of Coinbase&#8217;s direct listing, board member Mark Andreessen, together with the venture firm and two related entities, sold a total of 1.18 million shares for $449.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to Forbes, in 2021 Crypto Fund I posted realized and unrealized gains of $6 billion. An individual familiar with the fund&#8217;s finances noted an impressive 17.7x return.<\/p>\n<p>In spring 2020, a16z raised $515 million for its second crypto-focused fund. In June 2021, the leading Silicon Valley venture firm launched Crypto Fund III with assets of $2.2 billion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;My job isn&#8217;t to predict the future. My job is to be smart enough to know smart people who will do it,&#8221; Dixon told the magazine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The top three of Forbes&#8217; Midas List also included Ribbit Capital&#8217;s managing director Miki Malka and Neil Shen of Sequoia China. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who heads Founders Fund, ranked tenth.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/KrUYIb-88WX2yYMVaDCLPusuJzdD8DxzzEfaonVJNq90YsS-VXfPhWmlGcAfnyxeAQ8kmm-ha3qOgNEM4fgaR2bpAAQ1V4sKZeMQGFxF2VpsrPyXZXkVcxFNupor2H_cYJU8fWhL\" alt=\"\u041f\u0430\u0440\u0442\u043d\u0435\u0440 Andreessen Horowitz \u0432\u043e\u0437\u0433\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b \u00ab\u0421\u043f\u0438\u0441\u043e\u043a \u041c\u0438\u0434\u0430\u0441\u0430\u00bb Forbes\"\/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/midas\/\">Forbes<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In March 2022, a16z <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/andreessen-horowitz-invests-70-million-in-lido-finance\">invested $70 million<\/a> in the staking service Lido Finance.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the venture firm supported in funding rounds the Celo wallet, the DeFi project Syndicate, the NFT-game developer Mythical Games, the Mysten Labs startup and others. a16z also holds significant stakes in Compound and Uniswap.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in January 2022, media reports indicated that Andreessen Horowitz <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-reports-that-a16z-plans-to-raise-4-5-billion-across-two-new-crypto-funds\">planned to raise up to $4.5 billion<\/a> across two new cryptocurrency funds.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) partner Chris Dixon topped Forbes&#8217; venture investors list thanks to his investments in the crypto industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60055,"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-60054","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":"45","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60054","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=60054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60056,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60054\/revisions\/60056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}