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In the 1990s, Marc Andreessen catapulted to fame as co-founder of Netscape Communications Corp. Today he is one of the world’s most influential venture capitalists, on the strength of the Menlo Park, California, firm he started in 2009 with longtime business partner Ben Horowitz, and on the strength of his own personality. The $4.2 billion-under-management Andreessen Horowitz has invested in such storied Silicon Valley successes as Airbnb, Pinterest and Twitter. And Andreessen is an unrelentingly energetic voice for the industry, regaling his 418,000 Twitter followers with his latest opinions on the tech scene. The 44-year-old general partner has been signaling his firm’s intentions to be more aggressive in financial technology than others around Sand Hill Road have been. Recent moves into fintech reflect Andreessen Horowitz’s “all stages” portfolio approach. The firm led a $58 million Series C round for London-based money transmission service TransferWise in January; made a flurry of digital currency and blockchain investments (21 Inc, Circle Internet Financial, Coinbase); and is a seed investor in Robinhood, a commission-free brokerage app. In August, Andreessen brought in as a fintech-dedicated general partner Alex Rampell, a 34-year-old serial entrepreneur who co-founded e-commerce advertising and payments company TrialPay, now part of Visa, as well as lending start-up Affirm, which raised $275 million in May, with Andreessen Horowitz participating. Andreessen, who declined to be interviewed for this article, told the New York Times in August that finance has historically been “an entrepreneur-driven field,” with Rampell chiming in that it is “ripe for disruption.”

 
The 2015 Fintech Finance 35

1. James Robinson III & James Robinson IV RRE Ventures 2. Jane Gladstone Evercore Partners 3. Matthew Harris Bain Capital Ventures Model Portfolios to Deliver Alternative Asset Exposure Sponsored by BlackRock April 29, 2025 4. Steven McLaughlin Financial Technology Partners 5. Jonathan Korngold General Atlantic

6. Richard Garman & Brad Bernstein FTV Capital 7. Amy Nauiokas & Sean Park Anthemis Group 8. Thomas Jessop Goldman Sachs Group 9. Meyer (Micky) Malka Ribbit Capital 10. Hans Morris Nyca Partners

11. Maria Gotsch Partnership Fund for New York City 12. Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz 13. Barry Silbert Digital Currency Group 14. Jay Reinemann Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria 15. Mariano Belinky Santander InnoVentures

16. François Robinet AXA Strategic Ventures 17. Vanessa Colella Citi Ventures 18. Alan Freudenstein & Gregory Grimaldi Credit Suisse NEXT Fund 19. Justin Brownhill & Neil DeSena SenaHill Partners 20. Rodger Voorhies Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

21. Michael Schlein Accion International 22. Kenneth Marlin Marlin & Associates 23. Rumi Morales CME Ventures 24. Mark Beeston Illuminate Financial Management 25. Vladislav Solodkiy Life.SREDA

26. Fabian Vandenreydt Innotribe SWIFT 27. Derek White Barclays 28. Alex Batlin UBS 29. Jeffrey Greenberg & Vincenzo La Ruffa Aquiline Capital Partners 30. P. Howard Edelstein REDI Holdings

31. Nektarios Liolios Startupbootcamp FinTech 32. Roy Bahat Bloomberg Beta 33. Andrew McCormack Valar Ventures 34. Lawrence Wintermeyer Innovate Finance 35. Janos Barberis FinTech Hong Kong