3 views of the last reported early-stage effort of a16z

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a16z, a venture capital firm known for its big bottoms sizes and for rocking the VC game when industry stacked in 2009, is preparing a new strategy to potentially strengthen its flow of business, according to a recent report. It is building a fund of funds to invest in smaller venture capital pools, giving it visibility into the next generation of tech startups.

a16z did not respond to requests for comment on this story.

The trend of big funds, traditionally more focused on doing deals at later stages, as it’s hard to get big funds into smaller deals and earlier, trying to find a way to get involved in early-stage companies is not new. And it’s not hard to see the logic behind a16z’s effort, as long as it turns out as expected: if it’s hard for big funds to get out early and therefore small, why not just fund people who invest early? and then take advantage of those relationships?

a16z’s new effort sparked a bit of a conversation within TechCrunch+, so we decided to adopt our traditional “talk about it out loud” model to share different perspectives on the matter from within our newsroom.