a16z leads $42M for Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an SF school for the AI era

verdakorz · x · 2026-09-23

Katie Kirsch announced the Horowitz Andreessen Academy in San Francisco, a school for "unusually ambitious young people" in an AI-reshaped world, launching with $42M led by a16z; Marc Andreessen and Erik Torenberg joined the board, with angels including Adam D'Angelo, Tobi Lütke, and Garry Tan.
Format: SF campus September–April, a month abroad in May, and a co-op in June–August; days center on building projects with mentor support (sample schedule: build a humanoid robot, fireside chat with Sam Altman).
The mentor network lists Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Fei-Fei Li, Satya Nadella, Patrick Collison, Mira Murati, Naval Ravikant, Tyler Cowen and 240+ others; founder Gagan Biyani is hiring the founding team.

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