Andreessen Horowitz
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Andreessen Horowitz is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing leading technology startups across software, fintech, crypto, and other innovation-driven sectors.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Andreessen Horowitz canonical | 13 |
| a16z | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T374228 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andreessen Horowitz Context triple: [Marc Andreessen, coFounded, Andreessen Horowitz]
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A.
Cohen Private Ventures
Cohen Private Ventures is a family office investment firm founded by billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, managing his personal and family assets across a range of private and public investments.
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B.
DP Fox Ventures
DP Fox Ventures is a private investment and management company, founded by businessman Dan DeVos, that owns and operates various sports, entertainment, and business enterprises.
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C.
RedBird Capital Partners
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm known for its significant stakes in major sports, media, and entertainment properties.
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D.
SoftBank Vision Fund
SoftBank Vision Fund is a large technology-focused investment fund backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group that makes substantial, long-term bets on high-growth companies worldwide.
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E.
Madrona Venture Group
Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology companies, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andreessen Horowitz Target entity description: Andreessen Horowitz is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing leading technology startups across software, fintech, crypto, and other innovation-driven sectors.
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A.
Cohen Private Ventures
Cohen Private Ventures is a family office investment firm founded by billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, managing his personal and family assets across a range of private and public investments.
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B.
DP Fox Ventures
DP Fox Ventures is a private investment and management company, founded by businessman Dan DeVos, that owns and operates various sports, entertainment, and business enterprises.
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C.
RedBird Capital Partners
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm known for its significant stakes in major sports, media, and entertainment properties.
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D.
SoftBank Vision Fund
SoftBank Vision Fund is a large technology-focused investment fund backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group that makes substantial, long-term bets on high-growth companies worldwide.
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E.
Madrona Venture Group
Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology companies, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
investment firm
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private company ⓘ venture capital firm ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Andreessen Horowitz
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surface form:
a16z
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| businessModel | equity investments in startups ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employs |
investment professionals
ⓘ
operating partners ⓘ technical experts ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
bio and healthcare startups
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consumer technology startups ⓘ crypto startups ⓘ enterprise technology startups ⓘ fintech startups ⓘ marketplace startups ⓘ software startups ⓘ web3 startups ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Ben Horowitz
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Marc Andreessen ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 2009 ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
Andreessen Horowitz
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
a16z
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| hasFounderRole |
Ben Horowitz is a co-founder
ⓘ
Marc Andreessen ⓘ
surface form:
Marc Andreessen is a co-founder
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| hasInvestmentTheme | software eating the world ⓘ |
| hasOffice |
Menlo Park, California
ⓘ
San Francisco, California, United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
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| hasPartner |
Ben Horowitz
ⓘ
Marc Andreessen ⓘ |
| hasReputation | prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://a16z.com ⓘ |
| industry |
financial services
ⓘ
technology investing ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| investmentStage |
early stage
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growth stage ⓘ seed ⓘ |
| knownFor |
backing leading technology startups
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large-scale venture capital funds ⓘ strong presence in Silicon Valley tech ecosystem ⓘ |
| legalForm | limited liability company ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Menlo Park, California
ⓘ
Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| operatesAs | multi-stage venture capital platform ⓘ |
| provides |
capital
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networking and advisory services ⓘ operational support to portfolio companies ⓘ |
| regionServed | global ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
innovation-driven sectors
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technology sector investments ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Andreessen Horowitz Description of subject: Andreessen Horowitz is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing leading technology startups across software, fintech, crypto, and other innovation-driven sectors.
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