# Ali Yahya

> Ali Yahya is a Series A investor at Andreessen Horowitz backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 73%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali01/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ali01
- Website: https://x.com/ali01

Ali Yahya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in crypto. Ali works with numerous portfolio companies, including Dapper Labs, Flow, Compound, Avalanche, Near, Rally, and Dfinity. Before Andreessen Horowitz, he was a software engineer and researcher at Google X, where he worked on the Everyday Robot project, which aims tobuild a robot that is smart and affordable enough to be viable as a consumer product for the home. He also worked at Google Brain, Google’s Artificial Intelligence lab, where he was a core developer on TensorFlow, Google’s primary library for machine learning.Ali began his career as a student and researcher at Stanford University, where he focused on the intersection of Computer Security, Distributed Systems, and Computer Networking. He first discovered the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2010 while doing research at Stanford Computer Security Lab, and has followed the space closely ever since.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 15 | 50% |
| Cryptocurrency | 13 | 43% |
| Software | 5 | 17% |
| FinTech | 4 | 13% |
| Ethereum | 4 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 27% |
| Series B | 6 | 20% |
| Seed | 4 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 10% |
| Series C | 2 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 37% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 3% |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jito | Jito offers liquid staking on Solana, letting users earn staking and MEV rewards through the JitoSOL token. | $50M |  | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| XMTP | XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $20M | Series B | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| EigenLabs | EigenLabs is a blockchain infrastructure startup that enables the restaking of ETH across various decentralized applications. They also provide developers with access to the Ethereum staked capital base and decentralized validator set. Traditionally, staking requires validators to lock up ETH as a security deposit to engage in the network'sconsensus mechanism, earning rewards for contributing to network security and validating transactions. However, once ETH is staked, it is generally immobilized until withdrawn, restricting validators from utilizing these assets elsewhere.EigenLayer aims to tackle this challenge by allowing staked ETH to be restaked across diverse decentralized applications and services without removing it from the original consensus mechanism. | $70M |  | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| LayerZero Labs | LayerZero Labs is a blockchain messaging protocol developer that allows decentralized applications build across multiple blockchains. The company is a User Application (UA) configurable on-chain endpoint that runs a ULN. | $55M |  | Apr 17, 2025 |  |
| t1 (aka t1 protocol) | t1 protocol cross-chain applications and scalability are facilitated by real-time proofs and immediate settlement. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| Daylight | Anode Labs is a technology company committed to building a more stable, sustainable, and abundant energy system for humanity. | $9M | Series A | Jul 31, 2024 |  |
| EigenLabs | EigenLayer a platform to leverage Ethereum security through the innovative method of restaking. | $100M | Series B | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| EigenLabs | EigenLabs is a blockchain infrastructure startup that enables the restaking of ETH across various decentralized applications. They also provide developers with access to the Ethereum staked capital base and decentralized validator set. Traditionally, staking requires validators to lock up ETH as a security deposit to engage in the network'sconsensus mechanism, earning rewards for contributing to network security and validating transactions. However, once ETH is staked, it is generally immobilized until withdrawn, restricting validators from utilizing these assets elsewhere.EigenLayer aims to tackle this challenge by allowing staked ETH to be restaked across diverse decentralized applications and services without removing it from the original consensus mechanism. | $100M | Series B | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| Freatic | Freatic bridges the gap between people who have untapped knowledge and actors who can capitalize on these opportunities. The Freatic strategy, which employs decentralization, game theory, and current cryptography, tries to overcome these constraints and allow untapped information marketplaces to grow. | $3.6M | Seed | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| Gensyn | Gensyn is a machine learning computing protocol for the world's deep learning models. It connects all of the machine learning-competent compute hardware in the world, including GPUs and CPUs and makes it available to engineers, researchers, and academics. | $43M | Series A | Jun 11, 2023 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Sound Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sound-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BlockTower Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blocktower-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Andreessen Horowitz

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services,consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

5 contacts available at Andreessen Horowitz.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Chen | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-chen |
| Anish Acharya | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anish-acharya |
| David George | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-george-2 |
| Emily Bennett | investing partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-bennett |
| Gabriel Vasquez | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-vasquez-db03 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ali Yahya invest in?

Ali Yahya invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ali Yahya last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ali Yahya closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 30 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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