Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz launched an alternative school for rising tech talent, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Sept. 22). The idea is to keep budding entrepreneurs from dropping out of school to launch a company and instead attend the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, according...
FinTech company OpenReserve has gotten conditional approval for a U.S. banking charter. The company received that permission from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency this week, CEO Dee Choubey said in a post on X Thursday (Sept. 3). “Preliminary conditional approval to charter a de novo national bank is a privilege our...
Andreessen Horowitz has raised $1.1 billion for a new fund that aims to accelerate the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure by investing in founders who are “reinventing AI hardware,” the venture capital firm said in a Friday (Aug. 28) blog post. The Machine Age Fund...
Blockchain developer Digital Asset Holdings is reportedly wrapping a funding round that could value it at $2 billion. The financing is expected to bring in around $300 million, Bloomberg News reported Monday (May 11), citing sources with knowledge of the matter. These sources say the round is being headed...
March 21, 2024
Saudi Arabia aims to carve out a leadership role in the burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) field with a proposed $40 billion investment fund, as The New York Times reported. The country is one of many global giants in the race to shape the future of AI, including Andreessen Horowitz and Nvidia, with investments in generative […]
September 20, 2019
Today in the payments news roundup, Wells Fargo is collaborating with data platform Plaid to let customers manage their finances in one place through an application programming interface (API). Also,...
September 22, 2026
Mirendil, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in talks to raise new funding at a $5 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Kleiner Perkins is in talks to lead the round, which could bring in up to $1 billion in new capital, Bloomberg said. Andreessen Horowitz is […]
September 22, 2026
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz launched an alternative school for rising tech talent, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Sept. 22). The idea is to keep budding entrepreneurs from dropping...
September 03, 2026
FinTech company OpenReserve has gotten conditional approval for a U.S. banking charter. The company received that permission from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency this week, CEO Dee Choubey said in a post on X...
August 28, 2026
Andreessen Horowitz has raised $1.1 billion for a new fund that aims to accelerate the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure by investing in founders who are “reinventing AI hardware,” the...