Mr Christopher J. Dixon
Also known as
Chris Dixon
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Recent investment activity


KANDO id: 21939

Bio

Chris Dixon is a general partner. For the past six years, Chris has been an active seed and venture-stage investor at Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technology company that was acquired by eBay in 2011. Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies. Chris started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade.


Career


a16zcrypto

The blockchain-focused investment arm of Andreessen Horowitz.
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Andreessen Horowitz

Venture capital firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
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Bessemer Venture Partners

Early stage venture capital firm.
Associate (past)

SiteAdvisor Inc - founder

Service that reports on the safety of web sites by crawling the web and testing the sites it finds for malware and spam.
N/A (past)

Hunch Inc - founder

Consumer-facing online decision engine

Education


Columbia University

BA in Philosophy

Harvard Business School

MBA in Business Administration

Investment preferences
Stage focus
Top investment portfolio themes
fintech (2)  
software (1)  
YCS09 (1)  
YCW12 (1)  
proptech (1)  
YCS07 (1)  
consumer (1)  
gaming (1)  

Actual initial investment stage

Selected investments

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Profile Country Date Funding
Optimizely Inc Developer of online A/B testing solutions Seed
Knewton Inc Online educational technology company, provides graduate management admission test and LSAT prep courses through live video online classrooms. Series A
Voxer LLC Venture
Meddik Inc Seed
Solve Media Inc Digital media company that provides hosted advertising technology solutions. Series A
Convertro Inc N/A
Stripe Inc Online payments platform. Series B
Foursquare Labs Inc Series B Initial investment
Stack Exchange Questions and answers site for programmers Series A
Canvas Networks Inc Series A
Kickstarter Inc Venture
Shrug Capital [Fund] Fund Closing
42Floors Inc Office space search engine. Series A
Anti Fund Venture capital fund founded by Geoffrey Woo and Jake Paul. Fund Closing Initial investment
PandoDaily Seed
Canonical Crypto Fund I LP Fund Closing Initial investment
OMGPOP Inc (i'minlikewithyou), (iilwy) The most addicting site to play games, meet new people, and hang out. Series A Initial investment
Trade sale
Profile Country Date Funding
Behance Inc Series A Initial investment Exited Trade sale