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angela strange
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@astrange
General Partner (AI Apps & Fintech) @a16z, proud Canadian, mom of 2 boys, distance runner; Previous: product leader
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    angela strange
    a16z
    @astrange
    Jun 4
    Today a16z is officially going global! @GEVS94 and I started a16z’s Borderless Founder network 5+ years ago with a simple premise: many of the best founders in the world will come from outside the U.S. And one of the most powerful things we can do is to help accelerate their
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    a16z
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    Jun 4
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    A16Z's Global Mission
    At Andreessen Horowitz, we believe that the best thing that a society can do for a person is to give them a chance. We unapologetically believe America, alongside her global allies, does this more...
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    angela strange
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    @astrange
    Oct 11, 2021
    Thinking of starting a Fintech company? We will make @a16z's resources available to a Fintech EIR (remote ok!).Ideal profile: startup experience & the passion to solve a critical problem in financial services (fully fleshed out idea not required).To apply:
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    a16z Fintech EIR
    Thinking of starting a Fintech company? Have a history of building/working in startups? We'd love to talk to you. You don't need a fully fleshed out idea to apply. Please tell us about yourself and...
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    angela strange
    a16z
    @astrange
    Jan 21, 2020
    1) My presentation @ our annual @a16z Summit this year bit.ly/a16zFintech The "Amazon Web Services" era has arrived for financial services. Who benefits most? Consumers! -> more choice, better & more affordable products, regardless of geography or socioeconomic demographic
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    angela strange
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    @astrange
    Nov 13, 2025
    It’s near impossible to beat someone who just doesn’t give up. I learned that racing marathons: you hit a wall, you feel awful, you may think you're done—and then somehow you find another gear. The same thing happens as a founder. And as an investor. You can believe something
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    angela strange
    a16z
    @astrange
    Aug 30, 2018
    Excited to keep backing great fintech entrepreneurs w @arampell now as General Partner @a16z !
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    Angela Strange | Andreessen Horowitz
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    angela strange
    a16z
    @astrange
    Mar 28, 2022
    1/The logistics of starting a company in the U.S. are a mostly solved problem: Stripe Atlas for company formation, Mercury for business banking, Ramp/Brex for corporate cards, Carta for cap table management, Gusto for HR. Yet, just getting started in many countries is HARD 🧵
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    angela strange
    a16z
    @astrange
    Dec 10, 2018
    At the @a16z summit last year, I discussed why "mainstream" financial services are not meeting the needs of tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions more worldwide.
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    The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services | Andreessen Horowitz
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    angela strange
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    @astrange
    Aug 21, 2025
    True. Was on a run this morning with some engineering leaders who told me they chose their vendor simply because that team **replied first**. Speed wins. Builds trust. Compounds over time.
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    Jay Yang
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    Jul 14, 2025
    It's kinda funny how the busiest people I know tend to reply the fastest.
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    angela strange
    a16z
    @astrange
    Jan 25, 2018
    Financial services fall flat for tens of millions of Americans and billions of people worldwide. Here's my presentation on creative new models being deployed to bring better financial access to all. And this is just the beginning! @a16z
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    The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services | Andreessen Horowitz
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    angela strange
    a16z
    @astrange
    Jun 6, 2019
    I'm proud to announce our investment in @synapsefi . AWS made it easier to launch new internet services, Synapse is doing the same for financial services. W/ the cost/complexity of infrastructure coming down, soon any company can be a FinTech company.
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    Synapse | Andreessen Horowitz
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    angela strange
    a16z
    @astrange
    Apr 13, 2021
    1/ Fintech in Latin America is growing explosively. Why? New post by @matt_haf & me on the large, latent demand of >600m people and why the opportunity for startups has never been bigger 👇
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    Latin America’s Fintech Boom | Andreessen Horowitz
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    angela strange
    a16z
    @astrange
    May 19, 2018
    Just in time for weekend reading: My post on how and why mortgages are so damn complicated -- and what strategies startups can use to wedge into the market to fix this (and build massive new companies!) @a16z a16z.com/2018/05/19/mor…
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    angela strange
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    Oct 15, 2021
    1/ Open source will catalyze the financial services industry's biggest evolution to date. In this $25T industry, increasing power & influence will shift from suits to developers.
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    Open Source Is Finally Coming to Financial Services | Andreessen Horowitz
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    angela strange
    a16z
    @astrange
    Aug 12, 2019
    1) The lack of a universally adopted real time payments system in the US is one of our largest regressive taxes. @sm90 and I discuss in the latest episode of @a16z 16minutes pod:
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    16 Minutes on the News #5: Fed Real-time Payments, Death of Retail | Andreessen Horowitz
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