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Andreessen Horowitz is aiming to raise about $10bn for new investments, as the Silicon Valley venture capital group seeks to replenish its coffers amid frenzied dealmaking for the top artificial intelligence and defence tech start-ups.
The California-based firm is seeking to raise roughly $6bn to invest in more mature companies, marking a near-doubling of its previous “growth” fund, said people familiar with the matter.
It is also targeting $1.5bn for each of its AI applications and AI infrastructure funds and more than $1bn for its “American Dynamism” defence and manufacturing-focused vehicle, two of the people said.
The combined target of $10bn would be Andreessen’s largest fundraise to date, marking a significant increase for the firm after raising $7.2bn in April last year in its latest haul. It would also be a step up from a $9bn raise during the tech boom in early 2022.
Andreessen’s rapid return to its institutional backers — known as limited partners — follows a period of prodigious industry-wide investments into AI which has led to VCs exhausting their previous funds faster than expected.
The firm has participated in a number of major start-up funding rounds since it last raised capital almost 18 months ago, including deals to back OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI.
Those businesses have vast capital requirements, and a large chunk of the new funding is likely to be spent on future rounds for start-ups already in Andreessen’s investment portfolio, said a person with knowledge of the matter.
Andreessen Horowitz did not respond to requests for comment.
The firm has risen to become one of the world’s top VC investors since it was founded in 2009, with $46bn of committed capital across its various funds.
Led by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the firm has also become increasingly politically influential. The pair donated to President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, and senior figures from the firm have left to serve in the new administration.
The firm’s former managing partner Scott Kupor now leads the US Office of Personnel Management, while its former partner Sriram Krishnan is the White House’s senior policy adviser for AI.
The firm has backed top AI and software start-ups including Databricks, and European leaders Mistral and Black Forest Labs. It also has been a backer of other highly valued tech groups such as cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and the defence tech group Anduril.
New York, October 23, 2025 – According to the latest Global Insurance Market Index released today by Marsh, the world’s leading insurance broker and risk advisor and a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), global commercial insurance rates fell, on average, by 4% in the third quarter of 2025, repeating the 4% decline recorded in Q2 2025. Growing competition among insurers, coupled with favorable reinsurance pricing, were the primary drivers for the rate decline along with increased market capacity.
All global regions experienced year-over-year composite rate decreases in Q3 2025. The Pacific (at 11%), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) (6%), and UK (6%) regions experienced the largest composite rate decreases. Rates declined in Asia and India, Middle East, and Africa (IMEA) by 5% each; in Europe by 4%; and in Canada by 3%. The overall composite rate in the US – which remained flat in Q2 2025 – declined by 1%. Rates for property, cyber, and financial and professional insurance declined in every region.
Q3 marks the fifth consecutive global quarterly decrease following seven years of quarterly increases and is a continuation of the moderating rate trend first recorded in Q1 2021.
Other findings included:
Commenting on the report, John Donnelly, President, Global Placement, Marsh, said: “With the exception of US casualty, clients are benefiting not only from lower rates but also from opportunities to negotiate improved terms and broader coverage. These rate trends remain consistent in a market characterized by ample capacity. Barring unforeseen changes in conditions, we expect these trends to continue and look forward to helping clients to take advantage of the competitive insurance market.”
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BBC/Lola DesignOnline shopping giant Temu has agreed to work with the greeting card industry to remove copied designs from its site more quickly.
Card firms say hundreds of their copyrighted images have been used to create cheap rip-offs, costing them thousands of pounds in lost sales.
Designers told the BBC the process for getting the plagiarised listings removed has been like the fairground game ‘whack-a-mole’ with copied products re-appearing within days.
Temu said protecting intellectual property was a “top priority” and that it was encouraging sellers to join the trial of a new takedown process specifically for the greetings card industry.
BBC/Lola DesignAmanda Mountain, the co-founder of York-based Lola Design, discovered the catalogue of designs she had built up over a decade had nearly all been copied.
She found the images she had created had been lifted and were being advertised by other sellers on cards and other products like t-shirts.
Amanda bought one of the cards using her design and found the image was distorted and the paper was of a poorer quality than hers.
“It’s not a nice feeling to see something you’ve poured all your love and hours into taken within minutes,” she told the BBC. “I was in shock, and I actually thought to myself ‘what is the point of me still designing, I might as well just stop now’.”
BBC/Citrus BunnAmanda, and her husband and business partner Frank, estimate that fraudulent versions of their products have made online sellers £100,000 in sales, equivalent to about 13% of Lola Design’s annual turnover.
However, Amanda said it is both the emotional toll and the time taken to get the copycat products removed that have had the biggest impact.
“Every piece that I create is actually a piece of me,” she said. “I know that sounds crazy, but it is. Every designer gives out a piece of themselves because they just want to create a little bit of happiness, and it is not much to ask for people to respect that.”
Lola DesignAfter pressure from the Greeting Card Association (GCA), Temu has now put in place a bespoke takedown process for the industry which, it says, will mean stolen designs are removed more quickly and won’t be able to be re-uploaded.
Previously, card firms would have to report each individual listing but, as part of the trial, they will now only have to submit one link. The software will remove the product and any others using the same design.
One card publisher, who helped develop the new system, saw 68 listings removed automatically. Something which previously might have meant 68 separate forms or emails to Temu.
According to the GCA, the system will then use AI to log the designer’s original creation as a protected image. It will then block any products using that design before they appear for sale.
BBC/Lola DesignIn a statement, Temu said “intellectual property protection is a top priority” and that it had “invested heavily in resources to strengthen trust with brands, sellers and consumers”.
It said most requests to take down copyrighted content were resolved within three working days, but that greeting card firms were being encouraged to join the new trial which it said would lead to more products being removed automatically.
The system is bespoke to the card industry, however the BBC understands it could be used as a model for similar or alternative processes for other products.
Amanda Fergusson, the chief executive of the GCA, said the industry welcomed the changes. “We know our members feel very strongly about copycat sellers, and what’s more we also know customers are often disappointed by cheap copies,” she said.
“Our dialogue with Temu and the actions they’re taking, is a welcome first-step to address those issues,” she added.
For Amanda and Frank, it is not just their livelihoods at stake but the future of the whole supply chain which relies on the 1.5bn greeting cards sold in the UK each year.
“At some point, its going to be the consumers that are going to be affected, not just us as designers, because there won’t be any high streets,” Amanda said. She also had a message for people buying copycat cards: “Cheap always comes at a cost.”
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Too many airmen today are going autopilot, solely relying their GPS navigation systems. It’s time we rethink our over-reliance on technology, no matter how advanced.
Not long ago I was flying in my helicopter when the bracket holding the GPS suddenly snapped. The receiver fell and smashed. I was in the air without a navigation system, with a flight visibility of between 3km and 4km – comparable to a foggy motorway when drivers can see about 300 or 400 metres ahead. My workload doubled immediately. It was a good example of why we shouldn’t rely on tech alone. Sometimes it takes a paper map to get us home safely.
In aviation today, there’s a dangerous over-reliance on automation. Pilots are trained to plot a course on a map, taking into account the weather and the speed at which they will travel. But once they’re out in the working world, they pack away the maps. A few years ago a British team tried to re-enact the famous “Dambusters” raid of 1943. It involved planes locating specific dams in Germany’s Ruhr valley. But I’m sorry to say that most modern navigators can barely find Germany without GPS, let alone a dam.
There are numerous problems with GPS, ranging from iPads shutting down the system to inputting the wrong co-ordinates – not to mention jamming attacks, which currently affects more than 1,000 civilian flights per day. So my advice is to be prepared and practised. Switch off the screen now and then, know where your map is and plot a course before you set off. Convenience suddenly becomes chaos if the backlit screen you’re beholden to breaks.
Andrew Harvey is a UK-based helicopter pilot and instructor with 25 years’ experience. As told to Monocle’s writer and researcher Julia Jenne.
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