46 posts and columns on Chris Dixon
Bitcoin’s Biggest Bet: Andreessen Horowitz Leads $25 Million Investment in Coinbase
Get ready for a lot more venture capital flowing into bitcoin-related startups, starting … now!News Byte
Socratic Is Creating a Textbook for the World, One Teacher Video at a Time
Socratic today announced that it has raised $1.5 million from Spark Capital, Betaworks, John Maloney, Terrapin Bale, Chris Dixon and David Tisch. The company (formerly known as Vespr) aggregates and organizes video lessons (first, high school and college content; today, just chemistry and physics) so teachers and students can use them as resources.News Byte
Paper App Draws $15 Million in Funding From Andreessen Horowitz, Jack Dorsey
FiftyThree, the New York-based company behind the popular iPad sketching app Paper, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Shana Fisher of High Line Venture Partners, Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, Ron Conway and Jack Dorsey. FiftyThree is comprised of ex-Microsoft designers and engineers who created Paper to enhance productivity on the iPad. The app is free to download, and includes in-app purchases for utility tool kits. The company plans to hire talent and expand the collaborative features of the app with the fresh funding.Back to the Cryptocurrency Mine
I think you have to pay attention to the fact that a lot of the best entrepreneurs right now are thinking about bitcoin. Regardless of what we [as VCs] think, it’s where a lot of smart people are gravitating.
— Chris Dixon, talking to Connie Loizos of PEHub about his first six months as a VC
Commercial Drone Platform Company Gets $10.7 Million From Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures
Is hardware the new software?Shapeways Raises $30M for 3-D Printing Led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon
Some 10,000 people are selling 1,000,000 designs on Shapeways to 150,000 customers.Go West, Young Geek: Chris Dixon on Why He Became a Silicon Valley VC at Andreessen Horowitz, and More! (Video)
If you can make it here, you’ll make it anywhere.Confirmed: Chris Dixon Becomes Seventh Investing GP at Andreessen Horowitz
So it is written, so it shall be done.New York Techie Chris Dixon in Talks to Be Next Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Every time a cash register rings, a VC gets his wings.News Byte