Andreessen Horowitz has been ramping up its scout presence in Europe over the past two years.
The US VC giant — which has backed European AI darlings including Mistral, ElevenLabs and Black Forest Labs — now has at least 21 scouts operating across all of the region’s major tech ecosystems.
A combination of operators and founders at some of Europe’s hottest startups, the Silicon Valley stalwart’s scouts can write cheques of between $10-25k to back startups at pre-seed and seed.
At least nine scouts have been added to A16z’s network so far in 2025, signalling the VC’s keenness to retain a presence in the region, despite closing its London office and announcing it would relocate investors to the US in January.
The move came just two years after the firm opened the doors of its first European base, with partner Sriram Krishnan moving from the US to run the operation.
The office focused exclusively on web3 and crypto, before A16z announced it was refocusing on the US following Trump’s election.
Alongside an ever-growing scout network, the firm has in recent months held hackathons with ElevenLabs and AI coding startup Lovable.
A16z have been approached for comment.
