Billionaires Andreessen And Horowitz Are Betting On Pro-AI Politicians Who Could Boost Their Massive Fortunes

Forbes Daily Briefing · Oct 30, 2026 · 7m

In January, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced it had raised $15 billion in new funds. It was a monster fundraising haul that boosted the 17-year-old firm’s assets to more than $90 billion, nearly double the amount it held in 2024. It also marked an opportunity for the firm’s co-founders, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, to telegraph their lofty ambitions for how to remake the country—and the world. “As the American leader in venture capital, the fate of new technology in the United States rests partly on our shoulders,” Horowitz wrote in a blog post…