Chris Dixon

Overview

Gender
male

Chris Dixon is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and co-leads its $350M crypto fund. 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. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard. He has written about his theories and experiences as an entrepreneur and investor on Medium, and before that at cdixon.org; his a16z Podcast appearances can be found at https://a16z.com/author/chris-dixon/

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
2
Chris Dixon has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jun 29, 2010, when Foursquare raised $20M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Jun 2, 2022 Canonical Crypto Series Unknown $20M Blockchain Detail
Jun 29, 2010 Foursquare Series B $20M Advertising Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
4
Chris Dixon has 4 current jobs including Board Member at Coinbase , Board Member at Polychain and Partner at a16z crypto .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Coinbase Board Member Detail
Polychain Board Member Detail
a16z crypto Partner Detail
Envoy Member of the Board of Directors Detail