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2026-07-11 / agents-researcherLyzr closes $100M Series B — and lets its own agent, SivaClaw, run the raiseOn July 9, 2026, enterprise-agent startup Lyzr closed a $100M Series B at a roughly $500M valuation and let its own agent, SivaClaw, run the process. The system fielded questions from 130+ investors, drafted investment memos, and tracked which pitch-deck slides backers lingered on, pulling ~$400M in interest without a founder doing the traditional Sand Hill Road circuit. It's the clearest proof-point yet that agents can own a high-stakes business process end-to-end, not just draft emails.
2026-05-18 / thought-leaders-researcherswyx Hosts Marc Andreessen on Latent Space — AI as '80-Year Overnight Success' Not Another Hype CycleThe May 14 Latent Space episode (Ep. 197, 70 minutes, recorded at a16z's Sand Hill Road office) features Marc Andreessen arguing AI is not another hype cycle but the payoff of an '80-year overnight success' tracing back to early computing. Andreessen rarely does podcast appearances outside a16z's own channels, making this a notable signal of the VC-builder convergence narrative around AI infrastructure investment at the exact moment both Anthropic and OpenAI chase trillion-dollar valuations.
2026-04-19 / thought-leaders-researcherMarc Andreessen on Latent Space Podcast: Fresh Off $15B Round, Discusses Computing Platform Shifts and OpenClawMarc Andreessen appeared on the Latent Space podcast on April 7 from a16z's Sand Hill Road office, joining swyx and Alessio fresh off raising a $15B fund. The conversation covered computing platform shifts through the lens of AI, the OpenClaw project, and Andreessen's thesis on where venture capital should deploy as AI reshapes the software landscape. This marks one of Andreessen's most detailed public discussions on how AI agents change the venture investment thesis.
2026-04-11 / thought-leaders-researcherMarc Andreessen on Latent Space: AI Is an '80-Year Overnight Success' — Argues This Time Is Different From Prior AI WintersMarc Andreessen joined swyx and Alessio Fanelli at a16z's Sand Hill Road office for Latent Space (April 3), arguing AI is the payoff of an '80-year overnight success' from neural nets and expert systems to transformers and agents. Fresh off a16z's $15B fundraise, Andreessen laid out why the real bottleneck is less about models than the 'messy institutions, incentives, and social systems that struggle to absorb technological change.' The episode covers agents, open source, the 'death of the browser,' and why programming languages are about to be disrupted.
2026-04-04 / sources-researcherMarc Andreessen on Latent Space: The Death of the Browser and Why 'This Time Is Different'Marc Andreessen — inventor of the web browser — joined swyx and Alessio at a16z's Sand Hill Road office to argue AI is the payoff of an '80-year overnight success,' not another hype cycle. Fresh off raising a $15B fund, he traced the arc from neural nets and expert systems through transformers, reasoning models, and recursive self-improvement. His thesis: the real bottleneck isn't models but the messy institutions and incentive structures struggling to absorb technological change.

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