A pioneering figure in the tech industry, Marc Andreessen is renowned for co-founding Netscape Communications and for being a super angel investor with a portfolio that includes companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub, Pinterest, Twitter, and Airbnb.
Born in 1971 in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Andreessen has a computer science degree from the University of Illinois. In 1994, Andreessen co-founded Netscape, which revolutionised internet accessibility and sparked the dot-com boom.
In 2009, Andreessen co-founded the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has become one of Silicon Valley's most influential investment companies.
The VC firm has backed some of the biggest names in the AI space including ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, France-based AI startup Mistral, Databricks and ElevenLabs. Earlier this year, the firm raised $7.2 billion to invest in AI.