‘Personal guardian angel’ to Ben Horowitz joins the firm as special advisor

Industry veteran Ken Coleman joins venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, 26 years after he introduced founder Ben Horowitz to the technology world.

Andreessen Horowitz invests $15M in hip hop Wikipedia Rap Genius

With its investment in Rap Genius, Andreesen Horowitz will help add a new layer of information to the web.

Yext sells pay-per-call ad biz to IAC’s CityGrid Media

Yext, the New York City-based company that lets businesses manage their online listings, announced today that it has sold off its pay-per-call ad division (recently spun-off as "Felix") to IAC-owned CityGrid Media.

VMware buys Nicira for $1.26B, making a bid for virtualized networking

VMware announced on Monday a big, $1.05 billion acquisition of software-defined networking company Nicira.

While VMware is a major player in data center virtualization, its purchase of Nicira is meant to make it a similarly large presence in software-defined networking …

Andreessen-Horowitz partners say they’ll give half of their profits to charity

Following the example set by philanthropists like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, the venture capitalists at Andreessen Horowitz have made a joint pledge to donate at least half of their substantial incomes to charity.

The firm’s six general partners all …

More details emerge on how Andreessen Horowitz lost $100M on principle

As I reported early last week, Andreessen Horowitz declined the chance to invest in Instagram’s first institutional round after placing a seed-round bet on the company. After we covered that story, the New York Times and many other outlets picked …

Investor Ben Horowitz on why Apple may win the mobile war

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz thinks Apple could be better poised to come out ahead in the mobile platform wars against Google.

The venture capitalist spoke about the future of mobile technology at Business Insider’s Ignition West conference Wednesday. Ignition …

Andreessen-Horowitz raises $1.5B for third fund in three years

Since it was founded in June of 2009 Andreessen-Horowitz has emerged as the hottest new name in venture funding. Part of the firm’s cache comes from its aggressive approach. Today’s announcement that Andreessen-Horowtiz has raised another $1.5 billion, which everyone …

Ben Horowitz on how to be an uber investor and breed technical CEOs

Ben Horowitz, a co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, says he and his famous partner Marc Andreessen hope to carve out a different path in creating a new kind of venture capital firm.

They hope to capitalize on …

Andreessen-Horowitz gives $1.5M to unlaunched recommendation app Wikets

Wikets, a soon-to-be-released iPhone application that recommends places and products to friends, announced a $1.5 million seed round from Andreessen-Horowitz and Battery Ventures today. But will yet another recommendations product survive when reviews and opinions already litter the Internet?

I …