Chris Dixon

Dixon joined the venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners.[7]

In 2005, Dixon co-founded SiteAdvisor, a web-security startup that was bought by security company McAfee in 2006.[8] In 2009, he founded Hunch with Caterina Fake and Tom Pinckney, which was acquired by eBay in 2011.[9]

As of 2022, Dixon is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. After joining the firm in 2012,[3] Dixon led a variety of investments for the firm including FiftyThree,[10] Soylent,[11] and Nootrobox.[12] He sits on the boards of drone startup Airware,[13] and 3D printing startup Shapeways.[14]

He was #1 on the Midas List in early 2022.[2]

Dixon became an early advocate for investments in Bitcoin, which he championed in various blog posts that became "something of a gospel among young crypto entrepreneurs."[3] By 2014, Andreessen Horowitz had invested almost $50 million into Bitcoin-related endeavors such as the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.[15][3] In 2022, Fortune called Dixon "the world's top crypto investor."[16] In an October 2022 article titled "Andreessen Horowitz Went All In on Crypto at the Worst Possible Time", the Wall Street Journal reported that during the first half of 2022, the cryptocurrency fund founded by Davis at Andreesen Horowitz had lost around 40% of its value, a decline "much larger than the 10% to 20% drops recorded by other venture funds, which have largely avoided the risky practice of purchasing volatile cryptocurrencies."[3]

With Dixon as a General Partner overseeing his firm's crypto investments,[17] in October 2022 he announced a new accelerator program to support crypto startups in Los Angeles.[18]

Dixon also led the firm's investment and sits on the board of Oculus VR.[19]