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Healthcare is failing to meet consumer needs: half of prescribed medications are never taken, and 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. Despite representing 20% of the U.S. GDP, the health system remains complex, regulated, and frustrating for patients. But tech

I went to Northwell Health's Constellation Forum yesterday, which made me realize I’m a year overdue in posting photos from last year’s forum. I was grateful (and starstruck!) to get to speak on a panel on AI and cancer care moderated by Katie Couric alongside the impressive

Building at the intersection of AI x consumer? Show us what you got! Apply to join the first Consumer AI Hackathon in NYC 📍 Nov 9-10 📆 partiful.com/e/ZfSteixNnDyC… a16z ElevenLabs OpenAI Luma AI Captions Cerebral Valley

My best friend is smarter than your best friend 😜 Insanely proud of Adriel Saporta for her new paper accepted to #NeurIPS2024. Check it out: alphaxiv.org/abs/2411.01053… github.com/rajesh-lab/sym…

Our goals: New medicines. New practice of medicine. Our team: a16z's global venture capital platform, together with Eli Lilly and Company, the largest pharma company in the world. Go :) Excited about the opportunities ahead! cc Jorge Conde a16z Bio + Health statnews.com/2025/01/10/eli…

We a16z are proud to announce we've led the Series A of Slingshot AI, the world’s first foundation model for psychology. We couldn't be more excited to work with Neil Parikh and @thecahnartist. Vijay Pande Bryan Kim ZC25 a16z.com/announcement/i…

I am absolutely heartbroken. Rest in peace, Cecile Richards. The former president of Planned Parenthood, a national leader for women’s rights and social and economic justice, has died today of brain cancer. She was 67 years old. The daughter of former Texas Governor Ann

1/ It's Time To Build: Healthtech Infrastructure 🛠️. In the “Maslow's hierarchy” of the healthcare industry’s needs, the infrastructure layer is the foundational workhorse of the system. Numerous (unfortunate) infra outages in recent years have shed light on the scale and

Not sure I've earned most of the monikers in this article -- but was definitely very nice to wake up to. Thank you Leo Schwartz for taking the time to chat! fortune.com/2025/01/27/a16…

🚨 Announcing Symile-MIMIC: a multimodal clinical dataset where each of the 11,622 samples includes an ECG and blood labs taken within 24 hrs of patient admission, along with a CXR taken 24-72 hrs post-admission. Perfect for exploring cross-modal relationships in medical data 🏥

Last week, I got to watch Zoe Jacoby crush it in her first argument before the Supreme Court. Even her former boss Neal Katyal wanted a photo with the star of the day. I couldn’t be a more proud friend 🥹

The best don’t guess. They know. It’s why NBPA is partnering with Function Health to bring cutting-edge health testing to players. A 12-time NBA All-Star, Olympic gold medalist, and former NBPA President, Chris Paul Chris Paul has spent nearly two decades mastering his craft,

Excited to announce our investment in Camber!

Huge congrats to Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, Yinon Costica, Roy Reznik and the entire incredible team at Wiz! Thank you for your trust and partnership. a16z is honored to have been on the journey with you and thrilled for your next exciting chapter 💪🚀

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." – John Maynard Keynes Young founders are seizing the moment. eric and I break it down further in our piece. a16z.com/from-dorm-room…

📢 New a16z thesis: Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is rewriting the rules of search — unlocking an $80B+ opportunity For years, brands played Google’s game: stuffing keywords, buying backlinks, and chasing brittle rankings. Now, with LLMs as the new search interface,

📢 New a16z thesis: Market research is a $140B industry and most of that spend still goes to human surveys, panels, and agencies. For years, software was a rounding error. Now, AI is flipping the model on its head:

How do you build a moat in consumer AI today? You don’t. Whoever builds first, iterates fastest, and distributes best wins. Here’s a metaphor I’ve been using: Launching a consumer AI company is like ejecting a pigeon into the sky and willing it to fly. (Stick with me.)👇