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Disease and Treatments. Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator. San Diego Habitat for Humanity > Home. Inter-Faith Community Services. Some Insights into Marc Andreessen’s New Venture Capital Firm, Andreessen Horowitz « The Mark Bao Journal. Gist: Andreessen, founder of Netscape, and Horowitz start forward-thinking venture capital firm with a fund of $300 million, investing $50k to $50 million.

Some Insights into Marc Andreessen’s New Venture Capital Firm, Andreessen Horowitz « The Mark Bao Journal

They prefer technical founders, and like technical CEOs. They want to understand the technology and the product well, instead of viewing from a distance, and aren’t interested in areas they don’t have experience in (unlike many VC firms.) However, the firm is difficult to contact, but it’s a radical and forward-thinking firm. Marc Andresseen, known for founding Netscape Communications (now part of AOL Time Warner (TWX)) and Ben Horowitz have started Andresseen Horowitz, a $300 million technology venture fund. Andressen notes on his blog the launch and the details of the fund. Yuri Milner and Ron Conway aim to disrupt angel investing with latest proposal. Potentially disrupting the established practices of angel investing, investors Yuri Milner (pictured) and Ron Conway have teamed up to offer a blanket investment to every new startup from the Y Combinator incubator.

Yuri Milner and Ron Conway aim to disrupt angel investing with latest proposal

Milner heads Russian investment firm DST (once known as Digital Sky Technologies) and he disrupted venture capital practices when he made investments in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon at very high valuations and easy deal terms. Milner didn’t even ask for seats on the board of directors of those companies. In hindsight, his investments look brilliant because all have risen in value, at least on paper. Conway runs the SV Angel investment fund.

Techcrunch reported that Milner (acting as an individual investor) and Conway’s fund are going to invest in every single Y Combinator startup, with some 40 startups in the latest class. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The San Diego Foundation > Home. Presumed Abundance: Home. Atlantic Philanthropies. Family Foundation.