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A16z raises second gaming fund at $600M as part of $7.2B funding

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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A16z announced that it has raised a new $600 million games fund as part of a $7.2 billion raise for the venture capital company started by Marc Andressen and Ben Horowitz.

Horowitz said that the $7.2 billion will be spread among the following venture strategies: American dynamism ($600 million), apps ($1 billion), games ($600 million), infrastructure ($1.25 billion), and growth ($3.75 billion). It’s an especially important time for games as the game industry has been in a funk with 20,000 layoffs in the past year and a half.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.