Gabriel Vasquez

Vasquez graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in economics and a minor in computer science.⁠[1]

From June 2018 to November 2019, he was an analyst in J.P. Morgan’s technology investment banking group in New York, where he received the bank’s Launching Leaders scholarship.⁠[2][1]

From November 2019 to November 2020, he worked on the pricing strategy team at Oscar Health in New York.⁠[2][1]

In November 2020, Vasquez joined Andreessen Horowitz as an investment partner, focusing on AI application investments and spearheading the firm’s global investment strategy; he is a member of the a16z Global team.⁠[2][1][3]

The articles he has written or co-written at a16z cover topics including fintech in Latin America, borderless founders, AI agents, and AI application development, and he co-wrote a16z’s announcements of its investments in Kavak and Telepatia.⁠[1]

Vasquez, Chris DixonChris DixonChris Dixon is a programmer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist, and the founder and managing partner of a16z crypto. He co-founded SiteAdvisor and Hunch, helped create Founder Collective, and later joined Andreessen Horowitz, investing in technology companies such as Coinbase. He is also the author of Read Write Own and has long written about blockchains, network ownership, the open internet, and the combination of AI and crypto.Open the full entry, and Elizabeth HarkavyElizabeth HarkavyElizabeth Harkavy (commonly known as Liz Harkavy) is a partner on the investment team of a16z crypto, part of Andreessen Horowitz, focusing on “web 2.5,” picks and shovels, and decentralized infrastructure. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was a founding engineer at Corsali (later renamed Vana) before joining a16z.Open the full entry co-authored a post announcing that Andreessen Horowitz was leading the first funding round of the AI lab Conway ResearchConway ResearchConway Research is an artificial intelligence lab founded by Sigil Wen that works on efficient models, inference engines, and personal AI that runs on devices users already own; its first product is Underdog, a locally run personal assistant. In October 2026, Andreessen Horowitz announced that it was leading the company’s first funding round.Open the full entry. The company was founded by Sigil WenSigil WenSigil Wen is an engineer, entrepreneur, and angel investor from Toronto, Canada, the founder and executive chairman of the U.S. visa services company Extraordinary, and a 2025 Thiel Fellow. He was previously an early engineer at Airchat, and in 2026 he founded the AI and cryptography lab Conway Research; the autonomous AI agent Automaton and the “Web 4.0” concept he released sparked debate in the crypto community.Open the full entry, and its first product, Underdog, is a personal AI that runs on users’ own devices; the three authors argued that as Underdog improves its models and reaches more consumer devices, it could put powerful AI in the hands of billions of people. The round was completed in April 2026, and other institutional backers included Khosla VenturesKhosla VenturesKhosla Ventures (KV) is an American venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It made heavy early bets on clean technology, became OpenAI’s first venture capital investor in 2019, and its portfolio also includes companies such as DoorDash, Block (formerly Square), Impossible Foods, and Rocket Lab.Open the full entry, Hummingbird VenturesHummingbird VenturesHummingbird Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Barend Van den Brande and based in London and Antwerp, Belgium, that invests in “outlier” founders without limiting itself to particular sectors or regions; its early investments include Peak Games, Kraken, Deliveroo, BillionToOne, and Lovable.Open the full entry, Anthology, SV AngelSV AngelSV Angel is a San Francisco venture capital firm cofounded in 2009 by angel investor Ron Conway and former Google executive David Lee. It typically writes small follow-on checks in seed rounds and has invested in companies such as Airbnb, Pinterest, and Dropbox; in 2018 it said it would no longer raise new funds from outside investors, and from 2022 it set up growth funds.Open the full entry, and Breakneck.⁠[4][4][4][4][5][6]

Andreessen Horowitz: Official website: https://a16z.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[1]

X: Public account: https://x.com/GEVS94 (opens in a new window).⁠[7]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-vasquez-49392580/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]