Sarah Wang (a16z)

Wang is originally from Fargo, North Dakota, and Chicago. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private research university in Massachusetts, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislature in 1636 and named in 1639 for early benefactor John Harvard. Its principal campuses are in Cambridge and the Allston and Longwood neighborhoods of Boston. It includes Harvard College, graduate and professional schools, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Two governing boards share oversight. Alan M. Garber was president as of October 2026, and the endowment stood at $56.9 billion at the end of fiscal 2025.Open the full entry, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and named a John Harvard Scholar, and later an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she was a Siebel Scholar and Arjay Miller Scholar. She began her career at Morgan StanleyMorgan StanleyMorgan Stanley is an American global financial services firm that grew from an investment banking partnership into a publicly traded financial group spanning investment banking, securities trading, wealth management, and investment management.Open the full entry and Boston Consulting Group and later became a vice president at the growth equity firm TA Associates, focusing on growth-stage investments and serving on the board of ZoomInfo. She has described herself as a recovering consultant well versed in PowerPoint and think-cell charts.⁠[1][1][1][1][1][2]

In 2019 Wang joined the growth team at Andreessen Horowitz.⁠[1][2]

In May 2021 Wang and Martin Casado published “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox,” estimating that 50 large public software companies were losing about $100 billion in market value because cloud costs weighed on their margins, and that the impact across more large public companies could exceed $500 billion; the essay discussed companies such as Dropbox moving workloads back to their own infrastructure while stating that it was not arguing for repatriation. In July she announced that a16z’s growth fund was leading the Series D of the code search company Sourcegraph, and in October she and Jennifer Li announced an investment in the partner data network Crossbeam.⁠[3][3][3][3][4][5]

In March 2022 Wang and Matt Bornstein announced a16z’s investment in Hex, a platform for collaborative analytics and data science.⁠[6][6]

In March 2023 a16z led the Series A of the AI character chat platform Character.AI, and Wang joined its board. In the investment post she recalled that the first time she tried Character.AI, a quiet birthday dinner for 12 turned into an evening of conversations with AI characters.⁠[7][7][7]

In March 2024 Wang and Shangda Xu, after speaking with dozens of Fortune 500 and top enterprise leaders and surveying 70 more, published 16 changes in how enterprises build and buy generative AI, arguing that the revenue opportunity in 2024 would be multiples larger in the enterprise. In May a16z co-led the latest round of the cloud security company Wiz, which had grown to more than $350 million in annual recurring revenue in four years. In September she and Martin Casado announced an investment in World Labs, the spatial intelligence company co-founded by Fei-Fei Li.⁠[8][8][9][9][10][10]

In June 2025 Wang and colleagues surveyed 100 chief information officers across 15 industries for an annual report on enterprise generative AI buying, finding that OpenAI, Google and Anthropic held dominant market share. In November a16z invested in the AI presentation tool Gamma.⁠[11][11][2][2]

In February 2026 a16z led the Series D of the code execution platform Temporal; in March Wang announced a16z’s investment in Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics company from Rivian founder RJ Scaringe’s team; and in May a16z led the Series C of Exa, a search engine built for AI agents.⁠[12][13][13][14]

In August 2026 Wang, Matt Bornstein and Martin Casado wrote that AI coding could be the biggest addressable market of their lives and, citing Cursor, argued for betting on the team that iterates fastest. In September a16z invested in the AI inference infrastructure company Gimlet. On September 30 she, David GeorgeDavid George (a16z)David George is a venture capitalist and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). After joining from General Atlantic in 2019, he built and leads a16z’s growth-stage investing practice, leading or participating in investments in companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI, Stripe, Roblox and Databricks.Open the full entry, Alex ImmermanAlex ImmermanAlex Immerman is a venture capitalist and general partner on the growth team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), leading growth-stage investments at the intersection of AI, consumer, enterprise software, crypto and the physical world; he has invested in companies including ElevenLabs, EliseAI, Flock Safety, Hebbia, Kalshi, Revolut, Stripe and Waymo.Open the full entry and Santiago Rodriguez discussed 25 key charts from a16z’s latest State of Markets presentation, from the scale of the AI infrastructure buildout to AI adoption inside companies. On October 9 a16z announced it was leading the investment in TypeSafe AI.⁠[15][15][16][17][18]

As of October 2026 Wang is a general partner on a16z’s growth team, leading growth-stage investments in AI, enterprise applications and infrastructure; she has backed Temporal, Exa, Cursor, Decagon, Thinking Machines Lab, Mind Robotics, Gamma, Character.ai, Wiz, Hex, Crossbeam and Sourcegraph and works on a16z’s growth investments in OpenAI, SSI, Databricks, SpaceXSpaceXSpaceX is a company founded by Elon Musk in 2002 whose businesses include space transportation, Starlink satellite communications and artificial intelligence. It went public in 2026 under the ticker SPCX.Open the full entry, Samsara and Figma. She lives in California.⁠[1][1][1][1]

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

X: Public account: https://x.com/sarahdingwang (opens in a new window)⁠[19][1]

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/sarah-wang-59b96a7/ (opens in a new window)⁠[1]