Olivia Moore

Moore is from Portland, Oregon, and enrolled at Stanford University in 2012 together with her twin sister, Justine Moore; they initially planned to study journalism and covered the entrepreneurship beat for the student newspaper The Stanford Daily. In their junior year, the two founded Cardinal Ventures, an on-campus startup incubator that gives two cohorts a year of 12 to 20 startups each $5,000 in non-dilutive capital and 10 weeks of mentorship.⁠[1][1][1][2]

In her senior year, she interned at the venture capital firm First Round Capital. She received an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford with Honors and Distinction, and later earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.⁠[1][2]

After graduating, Moore worked as an analyst on Goldman Sachs’ Alternative Investments and Manager Selection team. In 2017, she and Justine joined CRV, a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm, working on consumer investments under general partner Saar Gur; she went on to invest in and support technology companies serving consumers and small and medium-sized businesses at CRV.⁠[1][2][1][1][1][2]

The two built a personal brand under the name “The Venture Twins” and co-ran Accelerated, a weekly tech newsletter for college students; as of October 2018, the newsletter had about 5,200 subscribers and 120 campus ambassadors, and its network helped bring about CRV’s investments in the bra brand Harper Wilde and in Uppercase.⁠[1][1][1][1]

In April 2022, Moore, by then at a16z, published an article arguing that GMV (gross merchandise volume) retention is the most predictive yet often overlooked metric for judging the quality of a marketplace business, with a calculation template and the benchmarks used by the a16z team.⁠[3][3][3]

In 2023, Moore and Zach Cohen published the fourth a16z Marketplace 100 under their bylines, ranking consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies by annual GMV. In April of that year, she co-wrote an article with Daisy Wolf, Connie Chan, and Julie Yoo of a16z’s health team examining why there are so few scaled consumer healthcare marketplaces.⁠[4][4][4][5]

In September 2023, using SimilarWeb data as of June 2023, Moore ranked the top 50 generative AI web products by monthly visits. The results showed that ChatGPT accounted for 60% of the monthly traffic to these 50 products, Character.AI ranked second, and general-purpose LLM chatbots together accounted for 68%.⁠[6][6][6][6]

In March 2024, she published an updated ranking, “The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps,” splitting web products and mobile apps into two separate lists of 50 for the first time; compared with the first report in September 2023, more than 40% of the companies on the web list were new. The ranking has since been updated regularly.⁠[7][7][7]

In May 2024, Moore and general partner Anish AcharyaAnish AcharyaAnish Acharya is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), focused on consumer products and AI applications. He co-founded SocialDeck and Snowball, acquired by Google and Credit Karma respectively. He joined a16z in 2019 after working in software development, mobile product management and investing.Open the full entry published an investment thesis on AI voice agents, arguing that generative AI will reinvent the phone call and that both businesses and consumers can use voice agents to save on labor or to access services that would otherwise require a real person.⁠[8][8][8]

In April 2025, Moore, Anish Acharya, and Justine Moore jointly announced a16z’s investment in Krea, an AI image and video platform for creative professionals; a16z had already worked with the Krea team for 16 months, and Krea had more than 20 million users.⁠[9][9][9]

On September 25, 2026, Moore, together with a16z’s Josh ElmanJosh ElmanJosh Elman is an American product manager and venture capitalist who has been a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) since June 2026, focusing on consumer technology and AI investments. He has worked in product roles at LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Robinhood, and Apple, and was formerly a general partner at Greylock Partners.Open the full entry and David Booth, introduced Cosign, a new product built around professional reputation, on a podcast hosted by Erik Torenberg.⁠[10]

In October 2026, Moore published the seventh edition of “The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps,” in which only 11 products appeared for the first time, the fewest across the seven editions; this edition added, for the first time, a ranking based on YipitData’s U.S. consumer card spending data, and from then on excluded products primarily designed for NSFW use.⁠[11][11][11]

The report found that consumer AI usage is wide but not deep: as of August 2026, only 4.5% of U.S. consumers had an active paid personal subscription to ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, while the top 10% of spenders accounted for about half of all observed spending, suggesting that consumer AI may need a new business model.⁠[11][11][11][11]

As of October 2026, the companies whose investments Moore has helped lead at a16z include Happyrobot, Salient, Toma, Krea, and Scribenote.⁠[2]

Andreessen Horowitz: Official website: https://a16z.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

X: Public account: https://x.com/omooretweets (opens in a new window)⁠[2]

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 account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliviamoore94/ (opens in a new window)⁠[2]