a16z funds 50-seat AI founder academy

Andreessen Horowitz’s Horowitz Andreessen Academy has raised $42 million and will take roughly 50 students into its first, tuition-free year for recent high-school graduates. a16z’s announcement describes a one-year in-person school; TechCrunch reports that students receive no degree and must move to San Francisco, with tuition planned later. Builders should file this as a talent-distribution bet: the earliest AI founders may now arrive through a venture-backed apprenticeship rather than a university pipeline, alongside the archive’s account of the agentic engineer.