Chris Dixon

Founding Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

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Chris Dixon is a partner at a16z and leads the investments of the a16z Crypto Fund. His investments in companies such as Coinbase have earned him the top spot on Forbes magazine's "2022 World's Best Venture Capitalists List".

Work Experience

Andreessen Horowitz

Founding Partner

Education Experience

Columbia University

Harvard University

Investments

Unite

Layer 3 blockchain for mobile games

Name	Round	Valuation	Amount	Date
Unite	Seed Plus	--	$ 3 M	Jun 10, 2024

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100 Individual, Updated Apr 21

Top100 influencers on Crypto X

Fortune Crypto Jan 24, 2024

Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet — is it?

Verge Apr 11, 2022

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