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32-517: Common Crawl was founded by Gil Elbaz . Advisors to the non-profit include Peter Norvig and Joi Ito . The organization's crawlers respect nofollow and robots.txt policies. Open source code for processing Common Crawl's data set is publicly available. The Common Crawl dataset includes copyrighted work and is distributed from the US under fair use claims. Researchers in other countries have made use of techniques such as shuffling sentences or referencing

64-448: A $ 12 million Series A round for Bounce, a marketplace for consumers to access underutilized space in local businesses. In May 2022, the firm announced the launch of its largest fund to date at $ 4.5 billion. The fund is set to focus on cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. The firm stated that $ 1.5 billion was allocated to seed investments while the remaining $ 3 billion would be earmarked for venture investments. In August 2022,

96-742: A Series A funding round in Applied Intuition , a software company specializing in products for autonomous vehicles (AVs), and Marc Andreessen joined the Applied Intuition board. In 2019 the firm provided $ 15.3 million in Series A funding to Substack , some of which went to bringing high-profile writers into that network. In June 2019 the firm also invested in a $ 9.2 million Series A round in AnyRoad , an experiential marketing platform, and David Ulevitch from Andreessen Horowitz joined

128-527: A digital health company, and Apeel Sciences , a food science business. In 2017, the firm invested in Sigma, Health IQ, Asimov, and Cadre . In 2018, the firm raised $ 300 million for a dedicated cryptocurrency fund. It has also invested in Imply, Smartcar , PeerStreet, CryptoKitties , Dfinity, Earnin , Pindrop , Tenfold, and Very Good Security. In September 2018, Andreessen Horowitz participated in

160-599: A healthcare technology company. In October 2021, A16z led the round to Raise $ 150M Series B at $ 3B Valuation in Vietnamese studio Sky Mavis, the developer of crypto-based online game Axie Infinity . In December 2021, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter received a $ 100 million investment from a16z's crypto fund with the expectation that it would pivot to blockchain technology. The decision to pivot backfired, alienated many of Kickstarter's users, and ended up damaging its reputation. In March 2022, Andreessen Horowitz led

192-517: A member of the Board of Directors along with Carl Malamud and Nova Spivack . Elbaz is a supporter of his alma mater Caltech and in 2008, he was given the honor to be named Young Alumni Trustee to the Board of Trustees. Andreessen Horowitz AH Capital Management, LLC (commonly known as Andreessen Horowitz , or a16z ) is an American privately held venture capital firm, founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz . The company

224-435: A service ) industries. Between 2006 and 2010, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz actively invested in technology companies . Separately, and together, they invested $ 4 million in 45 start-ups including Twitter . During this time, the two became known as " super angel " investors. On July 6, 2009, Andreessen and Horowitz launched their venture capital fund with an initial capitalization of $ 300 million. In November 2010, at

256-614: A special advisor to Andreessen Horowitz in June 2011. In September 2012, former Washington D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty was appointed Andreessen Horowitz's second special advisor. Fenty was hired to advise the firm's portfolio companies on working with local, state, and federal governments. In 2019, the firm applied to restructure as a registered investment adviser in order to have more freedom to take up riskier bets like cryptocurrency . In 2022, a16z announced GAMES FUND ONE, lead by partner Andrew Chen, its inaugural fund dedicated to building

288-509: A time when the field of venture capitalism was contracting, the company raised another $ 650 million for a second venture fund. In less than two years, the firm was managing a total of $ 1.2 billion under the two funds. In May 2011, Andreessen ranked number 10 on the 2011 Forbes Midas List of Tech's Top Investors while he and Horowitz ranked number 6 on Vanity Fair ' s 2011 New Establishment List and number 1 on CNET 's 2011 most influential investors list. As of March 27, 2014,

320-607: Is committed to the open information arena and supports organizations such as public.resource.org. In 2007, Elbaz founded the Common Crawl Foundation , a non-profit foundation dedicated to building, maintaining and openly disseminating a comprehensive crawl of the Internet for the purpose of enabling a new wave of innovation, education, and research. Elbaz serves as the Foundation’s President and also as

352-522: Is headquartered in Menlo Park, California . As of April 2023, Andreessen Horowitz ranks first on the list of venture capital firms by assets under management , with $ 42 billion as of May 2024. Andreessen Horowitz invests in both early-stage start-ups and established growth companies . Its investments span the healthcare, consumer, cryptocurrency, gaming, fintech , education and enterprise IT (including cloud computing , security, and software as

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384-571: The Apache Software Foundation 's Nutch webcrawler instead of a custom crawler. Common Crawl switched from using .arc files to .warc files with its November 2013 crawl. A filtered version of Common Crawl was used to train OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, announced in 2020. The following data have been collected from the official Common Crawl Blog and Common Crawl's API. In corroboration with SURFsara , Common Crawl sponsors

416-667: The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he earned a bachelor's degree with a double major in engineering & applied science and economics. After graduation, Elbaz worked as a database engineer in Silicon Valley for seven years. In 1998, Elbaz and his Caltech classmate Weissman founded Oingo, Inc in Santa Monica. Oingo launched at the Fall 1999 Internet World and won the "Best of Show" Award in

448-543: The 90 companies in its portfolio, and 66 start-ups through its funding of Y Combinator 's Start Fund. The company invested $ 100 million in GitHub , which netted over $ 1 billion for the fund when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft for $ 7.5 billion. In 2013, Andreessen Horowitz invested in Clinkle , Coinbase , Databricks , Lyft , Oculus VR , PagerDuty , Pixlee, Ripple , Soylent , Swiftype and uBiome . In 2014,

480-870: The AnyRoad board. In 2020, the firm led a $ 150 million Series G round in Roblox , a social video game platform for children. In April 2020, the firm led a $ 50 million Series D round in Figma , a vector graphics editor and prototyping tool. Also in April 2020, the firm raised $ 515 million for a second cryptocurrency-focused fund. In May 2020, the firm made a $ 12 million Series A investment in Clubhouse ($ 10 million in primary capital plus $ 2 million toward purchasing shares), an audio-chat social networking app valued at nearly $ 100 million as of December 2020. In January 2021,

512-601: The C4. Gil Elbaz Gil Elbaz is an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known for co-founding, along with Adam Weissman, Applied Semantics (ASI), which is known for its AdSense product. He is the founder and CEO of Factual, an information-sharing startup. He is also the founder and chairman of the board of the Common Crawl Foundation , a non-profit dedicated to democratizing access to Internet information. From 1987 to 1991, he attended

544-750: The Norvig Web Data Science Award, a competition open to students and researchers in Benelux . The award is named for Peter Norvig who also chairs the judging committee for the award. Google's version of the Common Crawl is called the Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus, or C4 for short. It was constructed for the training of the T5 language model series in 2019. There are some concern over copyrighted content in

576-669: The Washington Post, by September 2024, the firm had lost $ 288 million on its Twitter investment. Andreessen Horowitz partners work on behalf of all its portfolio companies, an approach modeled after the Hollywood talent agency, Creative Artists Agency . In 2010, the company hired Margit Wennmachers , a marketing executive at the partner level. As of 2011, the firm had maintained a database of designers, coders, and executives and used it to help fill positions at its start-ups. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers became

608-587: The blogging platform Medium , Samsara , Improbable, Honor, Inc., OpenBazaar , a blockchain startup, and nootropics and biohacking company Nootrobox . In 2016, the firm led an $ 8.1 million Series A round in Everlaw, a legal technology company, and led a $ 3.5 million Series Seed round in RapidAPI, an API connection platform for developers. Also in 2016, the firm invested $ 2 million in Cardiogram,

640-561: The category of Outstanding Internet Service. Oingo launched AdSense in December 2000. Oingo changed its name to Applied Semantics in 2001. In April 2003, Applied Semantics was acquired by Google for US$ 102 million. As part of the acquisition deal, Elbaz, and over 40 members of the Applied Semantics team joined Google and became Google Santa Monica. Elbaz served as Engineering Director at Google from 2003 to 2007. In 2005, he

672-510: The combined entity's Board of Directors. Gil is also a Managing Partner at Los Angeles-based TenOneTen Ventures. Elbaz is active in a number of non-profit areas. Since 2006 he has sat on the board of trustees for the X Prize Foundation . He is also involved in Los Angeles Social Ventures Partners an organization of professionals who donate money, time and expertise to help Los Angeles area nonprofits. Elbaz

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704-546: The common crawl dataset to work around copyright law in other legal jurisdictions . English is the primary language for 46% of documents in the March 2023 version of the Common Crawl dataset. The next most common primary languages are German, Russian, Japanese, French, Spanish and Chinese, each with less than 6% of documents. Amazon Web Services began hosting Common Crawl's archive through its Public Data Sets program in 2012. The organization began releasing metadata files and

736-641: The company for a little while, then in 2009 he raised over US$ 27 million from venture capital and angel investors, including the VC firms Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures and the digital technology thought-leader Esther Dyson , who in addition to investing, sits on Factual’s Board of Advisors. As of Q1 2018, Factual employs over 150 people, provides services to numerous users and partners with hundreds of customers including Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Uber, Google's Doubleclick, The Trade Desk and many more. In 2020, Factual merged with Foursquare , and Gil now sits on

768-662: The firm announced it would be investing about $ 350 million in Flow , the latest organization begun by WeWork founder Adam Neumann . The purported aim of Flow is to create a branded product in the housing market with consistent community features, reimagining how real estate works in the US. The decision was met with some criticism due to Neumann's previous business issues in his time at WeWork. The firm committed to $ 400 million in equity investment towards acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk that completed in October 2022. According to

800-551: The firm led a $ 100 million Series B for the audio-chat social networking app Clubhouse , reportedly valuing it at $ 1 billion. In April 2021, it led a $ 220 million Series D for mobile banking and fintech company Current. In July 2021, the firm led a $ 100 million Series A for the NFT marketplace OpenSea , reportedly valuing it at $ 1.5 billion. In September 2021, the firm led an $ 18 million Series A fundraise in Pearl Health,

832-585: The firm led a $ 57 million Series B round in the A/B testing startup Optimizely . That same year the company invested in several more companies, including Tanium for $ 90 million, BuzzFeed , and Forward Networks. In 2015, the firm invested $ 40 million in Stack Exchange , $ 2.8 million in Distelli, and $ 80 million in cloud-based CAD software company Onshape . Also in 2015 Andreessen Horowitz invested in

864-683: The firm managed $ 4 billion in assets after the closing of its fourth fund at $ 1.5 billion. In addition to Andreessen and Horowitz, the firm's general partners include John O'Farrell , Scott Weiss , Jeff Jordan , Peter Levine , Chris Dixon , Vijay Pande , Martin Casado , Andrew Chen and Sriram Krishnan . In March 2019, it was reported that Andreessen Horowitz was opening an office in San Francisco . In January 2022, Andreessen Horowitz raised $ 9 billion for its venture capital , growth-stage and biotech-focused vehicles. As of May 2024,

896-501: The firm manages $ 42 billion in assets. In 2009, Andreessen Horowitz made its two first investments: one in business management SaaS developer Apptio and the other in Skype stock. According to Horowitz, the investment was seen as risky by other experts in the field who believed the company would be crippled by ongoing intellectual property litigation and direct competitive attacks from Google and Apple . The company's founders viewed

928-813: The investment as a success following Skype's sale to Microsoft in May 2011 for $ 8.5 billion. In 2010, Andreessen Horowitz invested $ 10 million in cloud company Okta while leading its Series A Round. In 2011, Andreessen Horowitz invested $ 80 million in Twitter, becoming the first venture firm that held stock in all four of the highest-valued, privately held social media companies at the time: Facebook , Groupon , Twitter , and Zynga . Andreessen Horowitz has also invested in Airbnb , Lytro , Jawbone, Belly , Foursquare , Stripe and other high-tech companies. In 2012, Andreessen Horowitz invested in 156 companies, including

960-720: The round to raise $ 450 million at a $ 4B Valuation in Yuga Labs (known for Bored Apes). In October 2022, it was reported that the US Securities and Exchange Commission were investigating Yuga Labs , due to concerns that sales of their digital assets violated US investment laws. In March 2022, the firm led $ 27 million Series A for the Rutter, a universal API for commerce data. In March 2022, a16z with Lux Capital co-led an $ 90 million round of Los Angeles–based machine-parts start-up Hadrian Automation. In April 2022, a16z led

992-495: The text output of the crawlers alongside .arc files in July 2012. Common Crawl's archives had only included .arc files previously. In December 2012, blekko donated to Common Crawl search engine metadata blekko had gathered from crawls it conducted from February to October 2012. The donated data helped Common Crawl "improve its crawl while avoiding spam, porn and the influence of excessive SEO ." In 2013, Common Crawl began using

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1024-643: Was presented with the prestigious Founders’ Award. During his tenure at Google, Elbaz continued to work on the Applied Semantics technology and AdSense. AdSense helped establish Google’s position as a leader in online advertising and has been responsible for a substantial amount of revenue since its launch in 2005. In Q1 2011, Google reported it earned US$ 2.34 billion ($ 9.36 billion annualized), or 28% of total revenue, through AdSense. In 2008, Elbaz founded Factual, an open data platform for application developers that leverages large scale aggregation and community exchange. Factual launched in October 2009. Elbaz self-funded

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