Chris Dixon

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For others of a similar name, see Chris Dixon (American football) and Chris Dickson (disambiguation).

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Chris Dixon is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, and former CEO, of the website Hunch.[1] He is a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and previously worked at eBay.

Early life and education

Dixon earned a BA and an MA from Columbia University, majoring in philosophy, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.[2]

Career

Andreessen Horowitz

Dixon is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California.[3] Since joining the firm in January 2013, Dixon has led a variety of investments for the firm including FiftyThree[4] Soylent,[5] and Nootrobox[6] and he sits on the boards of drone startup Airware,[7] 3D printing startup Shapeways,[8] and digital Bitcoin wallet Coinbase.[9]

Dixon also led the firm’s investment and sits on the board of Oculus VR,[10] which was acquired by Facebook in March 2014.[11]

Business

In the late 1990s, he spent three years as a software programmer at Arbitrade, a hedge fund focused on high-frequency trading.[12] He then joined the venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners.[13]

In 2005, Dixon co-founded SiteAdvisor, a web-security startup that was bought by security company McAfee in 2006.[14] In 2009, he founded Hunch with Caterina Fake and Tom Pinckney, which was acquired by eBay in 2011.[15] He also co-founded Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture capital fund and became an investor in Buzzfeed, Makerbot, Betaworks, Uber, Venmo, Milo, Hotel Tonight, and others.[12]

He has also personally invested in several young companies including Kickstarter, Warby Parker, Foursquare, Codecademy, Pinterest, Skype, TrialPay and Stripe.[12]

Recognition

In 2010, BusinessWeek magazine named Dixon the top angel investor in the technology industry.[16]

Dixon won the 2012 Crunchie "Angel of the Year" award.[17]

References

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External links

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