a16z Expands European AI Sourcing, Leads Dentio Pre-Seed

Andreessen Horowitz intensifies European deal-sourcing, evidenced by a $2.3 million pre-seed lead in Dentio, a Swedish AI dental admin startup. Despite lacking local offices, the firm travels extensively—partner Gabriel Vasquez logged nine NYC-Stockholm flights last year—to identify unicorns before they cross the Atlantic. Dentio, incubated at Stockholm School of Economics' SSE Labs, uses LLMs to generate clinical notes, aiming to scale across Europe and beyond. a16z scouts founders like Fredrik Hjelm (Voi) and Johannes Schildt (Kry) to map local talent, reflecting a broader pattern of global AI companies emerging abroad.