Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital giant, is looking to raise as much as $1 billion in cryptocurrencies and crypto startups.

This new fund aims to raise between $800 million and $1 billion from investors, reported the Financial Times, citing people familiar with the matter.

With this latest move, one of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile venture capital firms is introducing one of the largest pools of capital to crypto, potentially twice the size of its predecessor — its third crypto fund, which raised $515 million a year ago.

After the success of Coinbase, currently valued at about $60 billion down from the initial brief valuation of $100 billion, institutional investors such as endowments and foundations are now renewing their bet on the technology.

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the venture capital firm, which was also an early investor in Coinbase along with Ripple through traditional funds, was managing $35.8 billion in regulatory assets at the end of last year.

Its latest fundraising would rival the capital raised by Paradigm, a crypto investment firm founded by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehsram and former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang in 2018.

Paradigm has raised $1 billion from investors, including endowments of Harvard and Yale universities.

Another one, Pantera Capital, aims to raise $600 million for a new blockchain fund that will combine investments in private companies and tradable tokens. Its last venture fund raised $175 million in 2018, which surged 3.8x in January this year.

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