| Website | blog.pmarca.com |
| Blog | blog.pmarca.com |
| @pmarca | |
| Birthplace | Cedar Falls, Iowa |
| Birthdate | 7/9/71 |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bachelor's | 1993 |
| Computer Science |
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.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| PandoDaily | 1/12 | Seed | $2.5M | 17 |
| Business Insider | 9/11 | Venture Round | $7M | 6 |
| Business Insider | 7/10 | Series D | $3M | 5 |
| Fluther | 9/09 | Seed | $600k | 7 |
| Business Insider | 5/09 | Series C | $2.7M | 2 |
| ExtraHop Networks | 4/09 | Series A | $5.1M | 3 |
| GoodData | 4/09 | Seed | $2.5M | 5 |
| Asana | 4/09 | Angel | $1.2M | 13 |
| Rockmelt | 2/09 | Seed | $1.68M | 5 |
| Tiny Speck | 1/09 | Seed | $1.5M | 5 |
| Wealthfront | 12/08 | Angel | $3M | 7 |
| Metaplace | 10/08 | Series B | $6.7M | 4 |
| Qik | 8/08 | Venture Round | 2 | |
| Crowd Fusion | 7/08 | Series A | $3M | 3 |
| OMGPOP | 6/08 | Series A | $1.5M | 5 |
| Blekko | 5/08 | Series B | $3M | 7 |
| EQAL | 4/08 | Series A | $5M | 7 |
| AppNexus | 12/07 | Angel | $2.5M | 7 |
| SocialMedia.com | 10/07 | Series A | $3.5M | 4 |
| 7/07 | Series A | $5M | 10 | |
| Scribd | 6/07 | Series A | $3.71M | 6 |
| CastTV | 4/07 | Series A | $3.1M | 3 |
| Outside.in | 2/07 | Angel | $900k | 9 |
| Ning by Glam Media | 1/07 | Series A | 3 | |
| Netvibes | 3/06 | Seed | $1M | 5 |
| Plazes | 1/06 | Angel | €1M | 4 |
| Digg | 10/05 | Series A | $2.8M | 8 |
| InfraSearch | 6/00 | Angel | $2M | 5 |
