Andreessen Horowitz

Today, we’re launching Foundry Management, formed by Andreessen Horowitz and Atlas Holdings LLC to help founders build AI companies inside the industrial world. The hardest constraint in physical-world industries is often not the technology, but getting close enough to mission-critical work to understand what should be built. That understanding lives inside operating businesses, in equipment, workflows, and the knowledge of the people who keep them running. Foundry gives you a place to begin. We recruit a small, select group of some of the top technologists and give them premiere access to the Atlas portfolio, representing $26B in annual revenue across steel, metals/mining, automotive supply chains, energy, and logistics. You'll work alongside the operators and management at these businesses to build products and technologies that unleash AI in these industrial contexts. When it demonstrates the potential for an independent business, a16z and Atlas will support its creation, with you leading it as founder and CEO. You don't need to arrive with a finished idea. You do need technical depth, curiosity about how industry works, and the ambition to build something people will depend on. There's a great deal of the future left to build inside the industries already around us. Come build it with us: talent@foundrymgt.com

Today, were announcing $38 million in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Animo Ventures and Focal.vc, and the launch of the open beta of doxx.net. We're introducing Agentic Defined Networking, a way for people and their agents to create, configure, and operate private networks built around their own rules.  The internet treats people and their AI agents like data sources. Your traffic moves through infrastructure you do not control. Your messages, calls, and files typically pass through servers you do not own. Your privacy depends on someone else’s policies. So we built a different fabric. It’s a parallel Internet, it’s a communications app (calls, chat, groups, video, etc), a privacy network, a playground for agents, a global mesh, with covert communications protocols, alt-domains, private cert signing, and everything encrypted on many layers. Oh, and we built it physically, we're not on rented hardware, this is the real deal. You or your agent can drive everything via apps, API, etc. The public internet was built for reachability and billing. Then we turned it into a surveillance machine. AI agents are about to become some of the heaviest users of that machine—reading documents, calling APIs, moving data, and acting on our behalf at a scale no human can match. They need a better network than the one we inherited. The open beta is live. Visit doxx.net, or have your agent visit config.doxx.net to explain it to you and get started.