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Recruiting for Andreessen Horowitz Portfolio Companies: Who's Hiring in 2026

September 18, 2026

Quick answer

50% of Andreessen Horowitz's portfolio is hiring right now — 381 of 766 tracked companies, 21,313 open roles. 31% sit at Series B–D, which is where searches close fastest and where a specialist firm earns its fee. Plan on a median of 90 days from open requisition to signed offer.

How many Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies are hiring?

Andreessen Horowitz is the lead investor in 766 companies in our database. 381 of them are hiring right now, with 21,313 open roles between them.

The portfolio skews later than most people assume: 239 companies at Series B, C or D, against 156 at Series A and 130 at Seed. That matters for compensation, because the band moves with stage.

StagePortfolio companies
Series B–D239
Series A156
Seed130
Total tracked766

Which technical roles are open across the portfolio?

RoleOpen positions
Software Engineer1,928
Product Manager338
Forward Deployed Engineer229
Engineering Manager181
Solutions Architect170
Data Scientist142

Titles are normalised across applicant tracking systems, so seniority variants tally together —
"Senior Software Engineer, Backend" and "Software Engineer II" both count as software engineer.
The list is scoped to technical and product roles.

Why stage changes how you should hire

A portfolio is not one hiring market. Seed companies hire generalists who will change roles twice
before Series B. Series B–D companies hire for a scoped function that already has a manager, a
budget line and a replacement cost — which is why searches at that stage close faster and stick.

With 239 of Andreessen Horowitz's tracked companies at Series B–D and 130 at Seed,
the portfolio's centre of gravity should decide your approach before any agency conversation starts.

How long does a search actually take?

Across our own signed placements, the **median time from an open requisition to a signed offer is
90 days**. That is the number to plan against, not a best case. A search that has not
produced a client-stage candidate inside the first month is behind, and the honest move is to
re-scope rather than keep sourcing against a brief that is not landing.

What to ask a recruiting partner for a venture-backed portfolio

  • Ask for their median time-to-fill, not their fastest. An average hides the searches that died.
  • Ask what they do at week four if nobody has reached a client interview.
  • Ask how many searches one recruiter runs at once. Depth beats breadth; most placements come
from a small number of deeply-worked roles.
  • Ask what they will not take on. A firm that accepts every brief is not filtering for the ones
it can fill.

FAQ

How many Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies are hiring right now?
381 of the 766 we track (50%), with 21,313 open roles between them.

What stage are most Andreessen Horowitz companies?
239 are at Series B, C or D, 156 at Series A and 130 at Seed.

How long should a senior engineering search take at a venture-backed company?
Plan for a median of 90 days from open requisition to signed offer, based on our own placements.

Does the investor introduce you to recruiters?
Funds vary and most will share a preferred-vendor list on request. Treat it as a starting point, not
a shortlist — the list reflects who the fund has worked with, not who has filled your specific role.

What makes a portfolio company hard to hire for?
An unscoped brief. Stage, salary band and reporting line are usually fixable; a role that three
stakeholders describe differently is not, until they agree.



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