Steven Li

We recruit the worlds most brilliant individuals to accelerate AI research. Backed by Y Combinator.

Corridor accelerates AI coding by preventing security flaws before theyre even written. Trusted by leading security teams including Sublime Security, Pylon, and Omnea.

Customers rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so its simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. Every era of computing came with new workloads that previous infrastructure couldnt serve: mainframes, databases, the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice. The window to build is open right now.

Listen is an autonomous market researcher that makes research simple and fast. Share your business question, and our AI handles everything - designing the studies, finding the right participants, moderating interviews, and analyzing responses. Whether youre testing products or exploring new markets, Listen is a skilled researcher that works 24/7, delivering insights in hours instead of weeks. Listen is trusted by Google, Microsoft, SKIMS, Nestlé and hundreds of enterprises to unlock customer understanding at scale.

An AI Tutor Personalized to Each Student

Were building the agentic data team. Backed by Y Combinator

The TypeScript agent framework.

Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to understand and simulate the world. This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, and beyond.

Vendora (YC W23) is the all-in-one platform for grocers to win online. With our AI powered automations and deep integrations with your entire tech stack (POS, loyalty, inventory, accounting), we help grocers sell and succeed on third party marketplaces and give them a best in class online storefront (website and app) along with all the analytics and tools to manage them.

Forus accelerates medicine for the people who need it, prescribe it, and create it. We are building the AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to bring new science to patients. Backed by Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, and other leading investors, we are building an exceptional team of engineers and operators to unlock an order of magnitude more medicine for society. If your ambition matches that goal, apply to join today.

Uprise is building the future of financial advisory and tax planning for small business owners. We partner with fintechs and financial institutions to private-brand and embed the offering, helping them build deeper relationships with small business owner customers, as well as drive immediate revenue and increased product utilization. We’re backed by some of the country’s top VCs (Blank Ventures, TruStage, Exponent) as well as founders and senior execs from Gusto, SoFi, Stripe, and Robinhood, among others.

Various board memberships

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, fintech and games spaces. a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners, many of whom are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services. We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building. https://a16z.com/portfolio/ https://a16z.com/podcasts/ https://a16z.com/videos/ http://a16z.com/subscribe See Disclosures: https://a16z.com/disclosures/

We recruit the worlds most brilliant individuals to accelerate AI research. Backed by Y Combinator.

Corridor accelerates AI coding by preventing security flaws before theyre even written. Trusted by leading security teams including Sublime Security, Pylon, and Omnea.

Customers rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so its simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. Every era of computing came with new workloads that previous infrastructure couldnt serve: mainframes, databases, the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice. The window to build is open right now.

Listen is an autonomous market researcher that makes research simple and fast. Share your business question, and our AI handles everything - designing the studies, finding the right participants, moderating interviews, and analyzing responses. Whether youre testing products or exploring new markets, Listen is a skilled researcher that works 24/7, delivering insights in hours instead of weeks. Listen is trusted by Google, Microsoft, SKIMS, Nestlé and hundreds of enterprises to unlock customer understanding at scale.