Malika Aubakirova

Malika Aubakirova is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) on the AI Infrastructure team, where she backs foundational technologies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and enterprise infrastructure. A first-generation immigrant from Kazakhstan who coded at Google and Chronicle Security before pivoting to venture capital via Stanford GSB, she went from never having considered VC to closing deals at one of Silicon Valley's most storied firms in under two years.