{"id":61692,"date":"2022-05-19T12:28:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T09:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61692"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:42:22","slug":"andreessen-horowitz-launches-a-600-million-fund-for-gaming-and-metaverse-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/andreessen-horowitz-launches-a-600-million-fund-for-gaming-and-metaverse-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreessen Horowitz launches a $600 million fund for gaming and metaverse investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a16z\/status\/1526918779057348608\" title=\"reported\">reported<\/a> on the launch of a $600 million fund focused on \u201cgaming infrastructure and metaverse technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GAMES FUND ON<strong> <\/strong>will focus on financing studios, infrastructure startups and a broad range of applications that will revolutionise the gaming industry. The company estimates the current market size at $300 billion.<\/p>\n<p>At present, Web 3.0 is more of a set of ideologies; however, the virtual-reality technologies being developed for metaverses with play-to-earn (<span data-descr=\"play-to-earn\" class=\"old_tooltip\">P2E<\/span>) models will form the backbone of this <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/andreessen-horowitz-kriptovalyutnyj-rynok-drajver-innovatsij\/\">concept<\/a>, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The structure will support portfolio companies from building digital communities to recruiting development teams, managing the virtual economy and licensing intellectual property.<\/p>\n<p>The fund has enlisted the following experts as advisers:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>David Baszucki, founder of Roblox;<\/li>\n<li>Jason Citron, founder of Discord;<\/li>\n<li>Mark Merrill, co-founder of Riot Games;<\/li>\n<li>Mike Morhaime, co-founder of Blizzard;<\/li>\n<li>Alex Larsen and Jeffrey Zirlin, co-founders of Sky Mavis;<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Lin, co-founder of Twitch;<\/li>\n<li>Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga;<\/li>\n<li>Riccardo Zacconi, founder of King.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the past, a16z backed Zynga, Oculus, Roblox and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/razrabotchiki-nft-igry-axie-infinity-privlekli-152-mln-ot-a16z-i-paradigm\/\">Axie Infinity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April, a16z <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/andreessen-horowitz-otkryla-issledovatelskuju-laboratoriju-dlya-sfery-web-3-0\/\">opened<\/a> a research division for crypto and other Web 3.0-related technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Haun Ventures, led by former a16z general partner Katie Haun, raised $1.5 billion across two crypto funds with a similar focus.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, with a Web 3.0 focus, Pantera Capital and Uniswap Labs launched.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s YouTube channel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the launch of a $600 million fund focused on \u201cgaming infrastructure and metaverse technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61693,"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":[848,1155,1353,1133,1361],"class_list":["post-61692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-andreessen-horowitz","tag-games-and-gamefi","tag-metaverses","tag-venture-investments","tag-virtual-world-innovations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61692","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=61692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61694,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61692\/revisions\/61694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}