Addressing systemic issues is about work and not rhetoric, and Andreessen Horowitz Cultural Leadership Fund is an example of tangible action.

The 21 Savage funded Sound.xyz has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. It helps artists make money.

Meta4 Fund Management partners with private capital venture firm Andreessen Horowitz to raise $100 million to invest towards NFT collections.

When the Andreessen Horowitz firm launched in 2009, they put a focus on hiring black people and backing black entrepreneurs like Tristan Walker of Walker & Company Brands, Donnel Baird of BlocPower and Chris Bennett of Wonderschool. And although those bets paid off, their newest venture makes sure that diversity in tech is prioritized on a wider scale. The newly created Cultural Leadership Fund has two basic goals: Connect the greatest cultural leaders in the world to the best new tech companies and enable more young African Americans to enter the tech industry. In an announcement on the firm’s website, firm co-founder Ben Horowitz explained that while backing black founders and hiring black people within their own firm was a step in the right direction, it didn’t address diversity widely enough: “Still, we felt that we were leaving opportunity on the table in two important dimensions. First, we had not systematically partnered with the established cultural leaders and second, we...