Andreessen Horowitz Announces $30 Million Investment in Crypto Startups
On Monday, prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz unveiled plans to allocate $30 million across multiple startups.
“I’m committing $30 million over the next 45 days via the a16z Speedrun program,” stated a16z General Partner Andrew Chen on X. “Each startup that joins the Speedrun program will receive $750,000 investment, along with guidance and exposure to top-tier investors/mentors.”
Chen oversees the firm’s Game Fund One, a $600 million fund established nearly two years ago. While Game Fund One primarily focuses on gaming-related technologies like AI, VR, AR, it also supports Web3 startups.
Game Fund One boasts founders from leading tech and gaming companies such as Roblox, Discord, Riot Games, and Sky Mavis, co-founded by Aleks Larsen and Jeffrey Zirlin. Sky Mavis is renowned for creating “Axie Infinity,” the first blockchain game to gain significant traction.
Chen previously outlined the fund’s emphasis on studios, Web3, and infrastructure in its initial year, with a shift towards AI in the second year, as per his LinkedIn post from last year.
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In addition to Game Fund One, a16z’s crypto division has invested in blockchain-based gaming firms like Mythical Games and Voldex.
The Speedrun initiative, described as an “early-stage accelerator for startups at the intersection,” provides a rigorous 12-week program with a highly selective acceptance rate of ~1% of applicants. Participants receive not only financial backing but also access to industry experts and a community of ambitious founders.
Chen also mentioned that the application deadline for Speedrun is May 19, as reported on X.
Alexander Stefanov
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Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coinspress and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
