a16z brings growth fund to $8.5B days after launching new $1.1B fund

a16z 在推出 11 亿美元新基金几天后，将其增长基金规模扩大至 85 亿美元

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion. That means the firm added another $1.75 billion since the fund launched in January with $6.75 billion. 风险投资公司 Andreessen Horowitz（a16z）已将其第五期增长基金的规模扩大至 85 亿美元。这意味着自该基金于 1 月份以 67.5 亿美元启动以来，该公司又追加了 17.5 亿美元。

The firm’s announcement comes just days after a16z announced it had raised a fresh $1.1 billion for a new and different fund that it’s calling the “Machine Age Fund.” The fund’s throwback, steampunk-esque name reflects its focus on AI hardware startups developing chips, memory, networking, and storage. 在发布此公告的几天前，a16z 刚刚宣布为一只名为“机器时代基金”（Machine Age Fund）的新基金筹集了 11 亿美元。该基金带有复古蒸汽朋克风格的命名，反映了其对开发芯片、内存、网络和存储设备的 AI 硬件初创公司的关注。

As the growth fund’s name implies, it is cash dedicated to funding growth-stage startups that are ramping up products, expanding into new geographies, and scaling just about everything else. Over seven years, the growth fund has invested in more than 100 companies, David George, a general partner who leads the growth investment team, wrote in his announcement blog. 顾名思义，增长基金旨在为处于增长阶段的初创公司提供资金，这些公司正处于产品加速、拓展新市场以及全方位规模化扩张的阶段。负责领导增长投资团队的合伙人 David George 在其公告博客中写道，在过去七年中，该增长基金已投资了 100 多家公司。

But in this age of AI, companies are reaching the growth stage faster and gobbling up more cash at higher valuations than ever, too. With these billions, a16z is pursuing enterprise and consumer AI tech, defense tech, robotics, infrastructure hardware and software, and health tech — really the whole stack. 但在人工智能时代，企业进入增长阶段的速度比以往任何时候都快，且以更高的估值消耗着更多的资金。凭借这些数十亿美元的资金，a16z 正在布局企业级和消费级 AI 技术、国防科技、机器人、基础设施软硬件以及医疗科技——几乎涵盖了整个技术栈。

In this election year, it is also spending big on politics and lobbying. These new funds follow the $15 billion in new funding a16z announced in January. At the time, it had $90 billion of assets under management. 在今年这个选举年，该公司还在政治和游说方面投入了巨资。这些新基金是在 a16z 于 1 月份宣布筹集 150 亿美元新资金之后推出的。当时，该公司的资产管理规模为 900 亿美元。