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Powerhouse venture upper-case letter firm Andreessen Horowitz is promotingJennifer Lito general cooperator after six years at the firm . She ’s being tapped to help seat the new $ 1.25 billion Infrastructure stock managed by longtime a16z general partnerMartin Casado .
The Infrastructure investment trust is part ofthe fresh $ 7.2 billionthat the Silicon Valley VC giant star just nurture . Li has been an investment partner on the Infrastructure team for a while , which means she was already writing check and taking board seats . But her promotion puts her in sublime air travel : pass water her the twenty-seventh general partner at the business firm , and she ’s hit this calling milestone while in her former thirty .
While that may fathom like a lot of GPs , a16z currently has over 500 employee . Plus she ’s one of only four GPs on the Infrastructure team . The others areAnjney Midha , who joinedthe business firm last summer;Zane Lackey , who join two twelvemonth ago ; and Casado .
“ advance Jennifer to ecumenical mate means that much more autonomy in deal making and , as importantly , that much more influence on the team ’s civilisation , investment philosophy , and operating exemplar , ” Casado told TechCrunch over email .
InCasado ’s blog berth announce her forwarding , he also mention that she and he were the two people largely creditworthy for building the base investing squad . He described her as “ a low - ego , improbably reliable and generous partner to work with . No detail get away her notice , and no challenge is too daunting for her to tackle . As Ben Horowitz has said many fourth dimension , ‘ She embodies the a16z culture . ’ ”
In her prison term at a16z , Li helped the firmfind data connectivity startup Fivetran , esteem at $ 5.6 billion in 2021 ; and data analytics developer tool startup dbt , whichhit a $ 4.2 billion valuation in 2022(both of those deals were chair by Casado ) . She lead the firm ’s investments in developer - focused video political platform Mux , a unicorn as of 2021 ; database startup MotherDuck , valued at $ 400 million earlier this class ; and AI vocalism startup ElevenLabs , a unicorn as of January , where she serves on the add-in .
Prior to join a16z in 2018 , she led merchandise at AI inauguration Solvvy , take on by Zoom in 2022 ; led self - Robert William Service and analytics product at AppDynamics , learn by Cisco for $ 3.7 billion ; and was a Kleiner Perkins Product Fellow in 2016 .
