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Websiteblog.pmarca.com
Blogblog.pmarca.com
Twitter@pmarca
BirthplaceCedar Falls, Iowa
Birthdate7/9/71

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bachelor's 1993
Computer Science

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Marc Andreessen

Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz.

He is also co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter. He is an active member of the blogging community.

Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape. Mosaic was developed at National Center for Supercomputing Applications, on which Andreessen was the team-leader. Andreessen co-founded what later became Netscape Communications which produced the ‘Netscape Navigator’. Netscape Navigator was the most popular web browser for most of the 90’s, only to be overtaken by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, which was based on NCSA Mosaic.

Andreessen also served as chairman of Opsware and Chief Technology Officer of AOL after AOL acquired Netscape.

Featured on the cover of Time and other publications, Andreessen became a poster-boy of the Web 1.0 bubble generation: young, twenty-something, high-tech, ambitious, and worth millions (or billions) of dollars practically overnight.

Andreessen has served on the TechCrunch 50 conference panel of experts.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
PandoDaily 1/12Seed$2.5M17
Business Insider 9/11Venture Round$7M6
Business Insider 7/10Series D$3M5
Fluther 9/09Seed$600k7
Business Insider 5/09Series C$2.7M2
ExtraHop Networks 4/09Series A$5.1M3
GoodData 4/09Seed$2.5M5
Asana 4/09Angel$1.2M13
Rockmelt 2/09Seed$1.68M5
Tiny Speck 1/09Seed$1.5M5
Wealthfront 12/08Angel$3M7
Metaplace 10/08Series B$6.7M4
Qik 8/08Venture Round2
Crowd Fusion 7/08Series A$3M3
OMGPOP 6/08Series A$1.5M5
Blekko 5/08Series B$3M7
EQAL 4/08Series A$5M7
AppNexus 12/07Angel$2.5M7
SocialMedia.com 10/07Series A$3.5M4
Twitter 7/07Series A$5M10
Scribd 6/07Series A$3.71M6
CastTV 4/07Series A$3.1M3
Outside.in 2/07Angel$900k9
Ning by Glam Media 1/07Series A3
Netvibes 3/06Seed$1M5
Plazes 1/06Angel€1M4
Digg 10/05Series A$2.8M8
InfraSearch 6/00Angel$2M5

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  1. Sarah Lacy’s PandoDaily launches with $2.5 million in funding (gigaom.com) [edit]
  2. IVP Leads $7 Million Investment In Business Insider (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. PaidContent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  4. Fluther Raises $600k From Top Valley Investors For Crowd-Sourced Answers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Business Insider, SAI’s Parent, Closes Third Round; Round Around $5 Million (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  6. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. Czech Cloud Startup Good Data Raises Funding From Marc Andreessen And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Asana (privco.com) [edit]
  9. Andreessen Horowitz Back RockMelt Social Media Browswer (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  10. news.cnet.com [edit]
  11. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. Metaplace Raises $6.7 Million For Custom Virtual Worlds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  14. Velocity Interactive Group Press Release (fusecapital.com) [edit]
  15. Iminlikewithyou Gets VC Cash For New Game (gigaom.com) [edit]
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  17. Lonely No More: Lonelygirl15 Production Company EQAL Gets $5 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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  20. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
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