Stephenie Zhang

Stephenie Zhang is a partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the storied Silicon Valley venture firm behind Airbnb, Coinbase, and GitHub. A Phi Beta Kappa computer science graduate from MIT who grew up in Palo Alto, she joined a16z from Warburg Pincus, where she honed her instincts on growth and late-stage technology deals. At a16z, she backs enterprise technology companies at the growth stage, with investments spanning workflow orchestration (Temporal), AI-native presentations (Gamma), and internal developer tools. She also co-authored a16z's 'Big Ideas 2026' thesis on the agentic interface - the idea that software design is shifting from visual, human-first hierarchies to machine-legible structures built for AI agents.