# Chris Dixon

> Chris Dixon is a seed investor at Andreessen Horowitz (New York) backing Software and Internet. See 106 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 106
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-dixon-9599b127b
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/cdixon
- Website: http://www.cdixon.org

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 technologycompany 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/

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$25M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$22M |
| Series B | $8M–$170M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 13% |
| Internet | 13 | 12% |
| Blockchain | 12 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 11% |
| Cryptocurrency | 9 | 8% |

144 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 28 | 26% |
| Series A | 25 | 24% |
| Series B | 18 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 11 | 10% |
| Series C | 6 | 6% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 59 | 56% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Honduras | 1 | 1% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Catena Labs | Catena Labs incubate independent products spanning identity, communications, AI, and commerce. The company's mission is to empower people with agency, safety, value, and joy online. | $30M | Series A | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Ketone-IQ | Ketone-IQ offers subscription-based cognitive supplements designed to enhance mental performance and overall brain health. |  | Series A | Aug 26, 2025 |  |
| Poseidon | Poseidon is a full-stack decentralized data layer built for AI training workflows. | $15M | Seed | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Catena Labs | Catena Labs incubate independent products spanning identity, communications, AI, and commerce. The company's mission is to empower people with agency, safety, value, and joy online. | $18M | Seed | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Shield USDT | Shield is a user security automation for web 3 platforms. Their bot acts as a firewall to allow telegram and Discord communities to expand securely. They offer both standard and unique platforms. They sell a variety of goods, including community security systems. | $5M | Seed | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| Merit Systems | Merit aims to solve the "attribution problem" in software development. In the world of open source, which powers more than 97% of the apps that customers use daily, both IT titans and freelance programmers contribute to products that are freely available for anybody to access and enhance. | $10M | Seed | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Phi | Phi is a social gaming platform that focuses on 'on-chain Identity' using ENS and wallet activity. It allows users to build their web3 cities based on their wallet activities. The platform also offers a variety of features such as Silver Gas Saver, Supersonic Bat, Gold Gas Saver, Hypersonic Bat, Iron Gas Guzzler, and Ethereum Wallpaper.Phi also provides a user guide for its users to understand how to play and access Phi Land, and how to create their Phi Land. The platform is designed to be immersive and interactive, providing a unique gaming experience for its users. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2024 |  |
| The Data Foundation | Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos | $80M | Series B | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| Unite | We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them. | $3M | Seed | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| Yupp | Yupp a discovering, contrasting, and utilizing the newest AIs is made simple and enjoyable, which also contributes to the field's future development.. | $33M | Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |

10 of 106 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Union Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/union-square-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Founder Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founder-collective) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 6 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 Chris Dixon invest in?

Chris Dixon invests primarily in Software, Internet and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 106 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Chris Dixon's check size?

Chris Dixon typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$25M at Seed, $2.5M–$22M at Series A and $8M–$170M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chris Dixon participates in.

### When did Chris Dixon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Dixon closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 106 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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