PYMNTS.com January 19, 2026
In 2024, Andreessen Horowitz set up a $1.25 billion fund for AI infrastructure projects.
Now, the venture capital firm is committing an additional $1.7 billion to that effort in a bet against fears of an artificial intelligence bubble, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 19).
For Andreessen Horowitz — or a16z, to use its finance world nickname — “infrastructure” means any AI software targeted towards technical buyers and not consumers, the report added. These include things like foundational models, networking security and coding applications.
“Some of the most important companies of tomorrow will be infrastructure companies,” Raghu Raghuram, a managing partner at the venture firm and former VMware CEO, told Bloomberg.
The report adds that these bets have begun paying off....
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