a16z Says Over 40% of Recent Apps-Team Investments Went to International Founders
jamdac · x · 2026-08-21
An a16z podcast reveals that over 40% of the a16z Apps team's investments in the last two years went to international founders, with half headquartered outside the US. Partners Angela Strange and Gabriel Vasquez share the playbook: AI opens every market but concentrates the epicenter in the Bay Area, and country diasporas beat elite networks—citing ElevenLabs in Poland, Supersonik landing Salesforce in Spain, and Addi in Colombia now serving a quarter of the country.
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