Startups & Funding

Have money, will travel: a16z’s hunt for the next European unicorn

A top VC's extreme travel reveals the new European AI gold rush.

Deep Dive

Andreessen Horowitz partner Gabriel Vasquez took nine flights from NYC to Stockholm in one year, culminating in a $2.3 million pre-seed investment in Dentio. The Swedish startup uses LLMs to automate administrative work for dentists, starting with an AI clinical note scribe. This move signals a16z's aggressive hunt for European AI deal flow, tracking incubators like SSE Business Lab which also produced Klarna and Legora, despite having $15 billion in new funds to deploy.

Why It Matters

Major U.S. VCs are now aggressively funding niche AI startups abroad, shifting the global funding landscape.