a16z基金市值大幅缩水40%之后,合伙人:目光要放长远

比推Published on 2022-10-27Last updated on 2022-10-27

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Andreessen Horowitz(a16z)合伙人 Chris Dixon 表示:“目光要放长远”。

作者:Mary Liu

Andreessen Horowitz(a16z)合伙人 Chris Dixon 表示:“目光要放长远”。

随着去年加密货币价格飙升,没有任何风投比 Andreessen Horowitz(a16z)更看好该行业。

这家风险投资公司迅速赢得了“硅谷传奇风投”的美誉,这在很大程度上要归功于一位名叫 Chris Dixon 的 50 岁合伙人,他是区块链技术和加密货币的早期布道者之一。他的a16z是去年最活跃的加密风投之一,并在 5 月宣布设立 45 亿美元的加密基金,这是同类基金中规模最大的一个。

但时机变了。

今年,在市场普遍低迷的情况下,比特币和其他加密货币的价格暴跌,抹去了 a16z 基金数十亿美元的账面收益。该公司投资的一些加密初创公司的用户需求正在蒸发,另一些则面临监管机构越来越严格的审查。

据知情人士透露,a16z的旗舰加密基金今年上半年市值缩水约 40%。据基金投资者称,这一下降幅度远大于其他风险基金记录的 10% 至 20% 的下降幅度,这些基金没有采取购买高波动性加密货币的风险做法。

尽管拥有创纪录的现金储备,但a16z今年大幅放缓了其加密投资的步伐。

现在, Dixon 必须让紧张的投资者相信,他并没有对45亿美元的基金规模夸大其词,其他加密风险投资家表示,对于一个进入所谓加密寒冬的行业来说,该基金规模太大了。

风险投资公司 Tenacity Venture Capital 普通合伙人 Ben Narasin 说:“他们通过加密代币达到了那个规模,我不确定他们能否重新平衡”。

在一次采访中,Dixon 表示,他仍坚持以加密货币为中心的互联网愿景,即 Web3,这是 Andreessen 进军该行业的基础——一种观点认为,基于区块链技术的服务将把财务控制权和权力交还给互联网用户,以用户可以赚取和交易的加密货币的形式。

Dixon 表示,该行业仍处于获取用户的早期阶段,他不确定何时会大规模采用区块链服务。

他说:“加密是关于互联网的政治和管理结构,我们的视野非常长远。”

Dixon 引领 a16z 的道路反映了该公司向加密风投巨鳄的转变。

作为一名从小写代码,又获得哲学和商业硕士学位的程序员,他帮助创立并出售了两家初创公司——一家在网络安全领域,另一家在电子商务领域——并共同创立了风险投资公司 Founder Collective。他还培养了对虚拟现实和 3D 打印等新兴技术的兴趣。

Dixon 于 2012 年加入 A16z。该公司由 Marc Andreessen 和 Ben Horowitz 在 2009 年创立,在 Andreessen 先生著名的“软件正在吞噬世界”的口号的推动下,它迅速成为最大和最有影响力的科技投资者之一。

当许多主要投资者仍然认为比特币只不过是洗钱者和投机者的避风港时,Dixon 支持它的可能性,撰写博客文章(这是年轻加密货币企业家的福音)描述了比特币将如何创造一种新的、去中心化的金融系统。两年内,a16z 已向比特币相关项目投资近 5000 万美元,包括加密货币交易所 Coinbase。

随着 2015 年以太坊的推出,Dixon 对该领域的热情有增无减,以太坊使用相同类型的基于区块链的分布式记录保存,让开发人员可以构建超越支付的应用程序。Dixon 将以太坊的到来比作 iPhone App Store 的创建,并表示这表明加密投资领域比想象的要大。

知情人士说,他告诉 Andreessen 和 Horowitz,他希望将注意力从传统投资转移到一个专门的加密基金上。

2018 年推出的 3.5 亿美元加密基金是传统风险投资公司创建的首个此类基金。由于比特币和其他加密货币失去了大部分价值,Andreessen 在那一年仍然是多头,并在 2020 年筹集了第二只加密货币基金,总额为 5.15 亿美元。

Dixon 和他的团队也越来越多地宣传对 Web3 的愿景。他们认为,区块链为用户创建类似货币的代币可以让他们对基于区块链的服务版本(例如拼车和社交媒体)获得更多控制权和经济利益,从而削弱高科技垄断企业的力量。

除了投资加密公司外,Andreessen 还购买了他们创建的代币,分别押注在公司及其产品上。这种非常规策略在加密牛市期间带来了意外之财,但也使交易风险更大。

据《华尔街日报》看到的文件显示,截至去年底,第一只加密基金扣除费用后的初始投资翻了 10.6 倍,成为a16z 历史上表现最好的基金。

公开文件显示,在 Coinbase 于 2021 年 4 月直接上市后的两个月内,a16z 向投资者返还了超过 40 亿美元的股票,使其成为风险投资史上最赚钱的赌注之一。 文件显示,a16z 的第三只风险基金在 2013 年支持 Coinbase,截至 12 月 31 日,扣除费用后的账面收益为 9.7 倍,就当时的业绩而言,仅落后于第一只加密基金。

受到回报的鼓舞,a16z 开始了筹款闪电战。 它计划为其第三只加密基金筹集 10 亿美元,并最终在 2021 年 6 月筹集了 22 亿美元。

Dixon 表示,加密团队的策略是利用其现金储备向初创公司开出大笔支票,承诺使用区块链重塑从数字艺术到在线游戏的一切。这种激进的做法常常使其无法与其他投资者共同进行融资,并使该公司成为重要股东。

根据 PitchBook Data Inc. 的数据,Andreessen 去年支持了 56 笔美国加密交易,就投资额而言,它是仅次于 Coinbase Ventures 的第二大加密风投。

一些早期投资似乎开始腾飞。 2022 年 1 月,在 a16z 领投早期融资十个月后,非同质代币市场 OpenSea 的估值飙升了 100 多倍,达到 130 亿美元。

为了主导该行业,a16z 曾一度放弃既定的投资原则。知情人士说,11 月,其投资者尝试投资 NFT 市场 Magic Eden,但失败了,该公司已经支持 OpenSea。风险资本家长期以来一直避免支持潜在的竞争对手,因为这会损害声誉。Dixon 表示,该基金不支持与其现有投资组合直接竞争的公司。

几个月后,市场发生了变化。

随着用户抛售他们的加密资产,a16z 支持的一些公司发现用户需求正在蒸发。自去年 12 月的一轮融资以来,OpenSea 的月度交易量在 NFT 市场大范围崩盘的情况下暴跌,而 Coinbase 的月度活跃用户在第二季度比去年第四季度的峰值 1120 万下降了 20%。两家公司今年都裁减了约五分之一的员工。

Andreessen 还在应对监管对加密初创公司和支持它们的资金进行更严格的审查,这有可能结束监管宽松的时代,宽松监管使得数千种加密货币的诞生成为可能。

该公司正在做出调整。根据 PitchBook 的数据,它在第三季度宣布了 9 笔加密创业交易,低于去年第四季度 26 笔加密交易的高位。

知情人士称,该公司今年还下调了第二支和第三支加密基金的价值,尽管跌幅没有第一支加密基金那么严重。

与此同时,该公司的加密投资正在暴跌。 Solana 是该公司于 2021 年 6 月购买的新贵加密货币,自年初以来已贬值 80% 以上。今年前六个月,由于加密货币交易所 Coinbase 的股价暴跌超过 80%,a16z 在 Coinbase 的持股价值蒸发了 29 亿美元。

Dixon 表示,低迷期是该基金继续支持加密企业家的机会,类似于它在之前的低迷市场中所做的那样。

Dixon 说:”我看的不是价格。我关注的是企业家和开发者的活动,这才是核心指标。”

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