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We’re excited to announce the Launch of Backflip AI. Our mission is to dramatically accelerate the pace of hardware innovation and development, for one reason — we want to live in the future.

gotta love when your answer to an end of year round up requires a whole editor note (massive thanks to the team for including me alongside these incredible people and thoughtful answers!!)

In 2025, the global gaming market is projected to surpass $300B+—but its impact goes far beyond entertainment. Troy Kirwin of A16Z GAMES shares how gaming technologies are breaking out of entertainment and transforming industries. From AI-powered simulations to XR devices and

Big moves today. We’re relaunching a16z’s gaming newsletter under the banner of speedrun and expanding the focus to tech and entertainment, inclusive of games. We had already quietly become a top gaming newsletter (>40k readers). But now the ambition has grown. 1/3

Yesterday I had the pleasure of welcoming Ilkka Paananen, CEO & Co-Founder of Supercell to speak with our a16z speedrun 🧊 founders. Ilkka has a wealth of wisdom and shared so many helpful insights & war stories 👇

Today Voldex -- backed by a16z -- announced some huge news, the acquisition of Brookhaven, one of the most popular games in the world! Brookhaven has some insane stats: - 120 million monthly active users - 60 billion lifetime visits - the # 1 game on Roblox I spoke to the

“We have this fundamental belief that the team that works on any game...100% owns and controls what they do.” Ilkka Paananen joined me on stage a16z speedrun 🧊 last week & shared how game cells are treated like startups Supercell with complete control of their destiny.

Launching our new a16z speedrun 🧊 YouTube Channel today! We've hosted some legends from companies like Figma, Doordash, Adobe, Quora, Zynga, Carta, Google, and Twilio and will be posting highlights from these chats on a weekly basis. Here's a snippet from our kickoff ft. Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

Spectre Season 1 launches NEXT Tuesday, Feb 25 Play on PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam We’ve been grinding on this for months. Excited to finally share it with you 🙏🏼

SpacetimeDB 1.0 is finally here. It's been years in the making. Indie MMOs here we come! Check out the keynote! Couldn't be more proud of the team!

1/ so excited for the official launch of SpacetimeDB - a new type of relational database & server combined in one you or an AI agent can vibe code a full multiplayer app / game in a single language & binary - abstracting away servers, devops, & database mgmt

“You have to be a little bit crazy to build new games — because most will fail. But someone has to succeed. Why not you?” One of the many lessons Ilkka Paananen, CEO of Supercell, shared during a16z a16z speedrun 🧊 My favorite insights ⏬

Update: 36 hours left to go a16z speedrun 5 deadline! We're investing up to $1M in very early stage startups, including pre-launch and global founders. There's a 12-week program emphasizing speakers from the worlds of tech, AI, and entertainment. Very excited. We love

ok - final reminder for tonight’s deadline: **11:59 PM PST is the deadline** to apply for a16z Speedrun with your project/startup. After this, we close out the application process and focus on meeting all the teams, investing up to $1m in each over the next few weeks. Doing

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