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For a16z, AI gives foreign founders an advantage

TechCrunchAugust 20, 20265 min read

a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. "Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley" is an advantage, the firm believes.

Andreessen Horowitz has made headlines for its American dynamism thesis, but a U.S. passport is no requirement. According to Gabriel Vasquez (pictured above), a partner focusing on AI apps and the firm’s global investment strategy, “44% of our investments in the Apps Fund One and Two have an international founder.” Together with general partner Angela Strange, Vasquez is the driving force behind a16z’s Borderless Founder network, an initiative to support immigrant and international founders. Their premise is that great companies could be born anywhere, but they now believe foreign entrepreneurs…

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