Haun Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Katie Haun, former General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former federal prosecutor at the US Department of Justice. The firm was built to back the founders rethinking financial assets and markets, founders who operate in spaces where the rules are unsettled, incomplete, or simply unwritten. Its first fund delivered notable exits, including Stripe's $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge. With the close of Fund II, the firm handles more than $2 billion in assets under management.
Haun Ventures focuses on the convergence of crypto, blockchain, financial services, and, for the first time with Fund II, AI agents. The firm sees the opportunity converging around three core areas: the new financial infrastructure (payments, banking, capital markets, custody, and foreign exchange being rebuilt for a digital-first world); new assets and markets (tokenization of currencies, securities, derivatives, and real-world assets including commodities like gold and oil, as well as prediction markets); and the agentic economy (autonomous AI agents that will increasingly conduct economic activity on behalf of humans, requiring new infrastructure for fraud prevention, credit, insurance, identity, privacy, and verification).
Haun has drawn a deliberate boundary, stating "We're not pivoting to be an AI fund" and "We want to do AI that is in our lane," the lane being regulated financial services for autonomous software.
Haun Ventures raised $1 billion across two new investment funds, with the capital split evenly between early-stage and later-stage vehicles, to be deployed over the next two to three years. This is Fund II; the first fund was valued at $1.5 billion and focused mainly on crypto infrastructure and blockchain companies. The firm's institutional investors include prominent sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, pensions, financial institutions, and other global organizations. Total AUM now exceeds $2.5 billion.
Leadership
Katie Haun is Founder and CEO. Prior to founding Haun Ventures, she spent over a decade as a federal prosecutor at the DOJ, establishing the DOJ's first digital currency task force, before joining Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner where she co-led their blockchain franchise across three funds. Diogo Mónica is General Partner and co-founder of Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered crypto-native bank in the US. Chris Ahn is Partner, formerly of Index Ventures and GitHub. Breck Stodghill is Partner, formerly of Zora and Coinbase. Mark Beylin is Senior Associate. Kevin Bissell serves as CFO, Suzanne Kim as Head of Investor Relations, and James Rathmell as General Counsel (formerly crypto counsel at a16z).
Investment Strategy
The $1 billion in new capital is split evenly between early and later-stage funds, to be deployed over two to three years into crypto and blockchain companies globally, with a new expansion into startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets. The firm invests from seed through growth equity. Check sizes are not publicly disclosed. The team's background spans investing, engineering, law, and federal prosecution, giving it a distinctly compliance-forward approach suited to regulated financial markets.
Notable Investments
The portfolio includes Agora, Aleo, Aptos Labs, Bitwise, Bridge, BVNK, Chainalysis, Chaos Labs, Ellipsis Labs, Erebor, Euler Labs, Farcaster, Fireblocks, Helius, OpenSea, Plume, Sovereign Labs, Superstate, Taxbit, thirdweb, Witness, XFX, and Zora, among others.
Notable Exits
Stripe acquired Bridge for $1.1 billion, one of the firm's most notable exits from Fund I. Figma (IPO) is among Katie Haun's personal investments.
Other
Haun Ventures operates with a dual-fund structure designed to cover the full company lifecycle, an early-stage vehicle and a later-stage acceleration vehicle, allowing it to follow investments from seed through growth. The firm's expansion into AI with Fund II marks its first explicit move beyond crypto, though it positions this strictly as AI within regulated financial services rather than a broad AI mandate.
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