Ali Yahya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz investing in crypto and a General Partner at a16z crypto. Ali Yahya's Twitter Score is 543 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #268 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked. Ali Yahya has 83,523 followers as of July 2026 on X.
Ali Yahya previously worked as a software engineer and researcher at Google X on the Everyday Robot project, and as a core developer on TensorFlow at Google Brain. He formerly studied and conducted research at Stanford University, where he first encountered the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2010 while working at the Stanford Computer Security Lab.
Ali Yahya co-authored the June 2021 announcement of a16z Crypto Fund III, a $2.2 billion fund to invest in crypto networks and founders, and co-authored the April 2022 announcement of a16z crypto research, a multidisciplinary lab working with portfolio companies and others on crypto and web3 research problems. He was also named as one of the general partners leading a16z crypto Fund V, a $2.2 billion fund, as reported in May 2026. Across five funds, a16z crypto has raised more than $9.8 billion. Ali Yahya's portfolio includes Golden and T1.
Ali Yahya has made 3,316 posts on X. He has been mentioned by 109 accounts, with 184 total mentions.
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Ali Yahya's follower base draws from across crypto and tech. The accounts that follow Ali Yahya include 2,056 founders, 594 angel investors, 672 influencers and 69 VCs, among them Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Solana, Laura Shin and Toly.