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Pre-Pitch Briefing

Eddy Lazzarin

CTO, a16z Crypto at a16z Crypto

crypto engineering and infrastructureprotocol designdeveloper toolingzero-knowledge proofs

Their Thesis

Crypto infrastructure, developer platforms, open source and crypto incentives.

How to Pitch Them

Show how your infrastructure scales and how developer experience works.

What Excites Them

Developer platforms, open source incentive alignment, infrastructure scalability

What They Pass On

Poor DX, closed source without good reason

In Their Own Words

“The best crypto infrastructure disappears. Users should never know they are using a blockchain.”

— a16z Podcast

Recent Writing

The State of Crypto Infrastructureessay

Crypto infrastructure is finally mature enough for mass-market applications.

How to Build a Crypto Startupblog

Technical architecture decisions for crypto startups

Understanding Blockchainsblog

Blockchains are a new computing primitive, like databases and APIs before them.

a16z Crypto Portfolio

Top Sectors

DeFi6
Infrastructure4
L1/L24
NFT/Gaming3
Identity1

Stage Distribution

Series A13
Series B5
Seed2
Series C1
a16z.com
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Talos
Towns
TrueFi
Universal
Valora
VeeFriends
Virtually Human Studio
World

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