Diogo is a General Partner at Haun Ventures. 

Diogo is the co-founder of Anchorage Digital, where he served as President prior to joining Haun Ventures and where he currently serves as Executive Chairman. Anchorage Digital is the first federally chartered crypto-native bank in the US. Prior to founding Anchorage Digital, Diogo served as Platform Security Lead at Square (now known as Block). At Square, Diogo worked on the infrastructure security platform (including identity, access management, and responses systems) that is now used to move over $200B in annualized gross payments volume.  Diogo also served as Security Lead at Docker, where he and his team wrote code that helps secure one of the core underpinnings of modern computing infrastructure: containers. Diogo serves as the Chairman of the NEAR Foundation and an advisor to and board member of Jscrambler. He previously served as an advisor to Airtable and StackRox.

Diogo has spoken worldwide on the topics of usable security, cryptography, and distributed systems. He served as a member of the technical oversight board of the Open Container Initiative, and volunteers for IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization. Diogo was previously the Chair of the IEEE Disruptive Innovations and Public Visibility committees, reporting directly to the IEEE board of directors. Diogo holds dozens of patents in the fields of cryptography, payments, and security. Diogo has been involved in developing several projects that now serve as industry standards for security, including the Notary project, accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. 

Diogo holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Computer Networks Engineering, as well as a Ph.D. in computer science with a focus on network security from the Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon.

Suzanne is Head of Investor Relations at Haun Ventures.

Prior to joining Haun Ventures, Suzanne spent over a decade at Hellman & Friedman, where she served  most recently as Managing Director. Previously, Suzanne served in various roles including Vice President at TPG. She began her career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

Suzanne holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Stephanie is Director of Executive Affairs at Haun Ventures.

Prior to joining Haun Ventures, Stephanie served as an Executive Assistant at a16z crypto, where she supported Katie Haun. Previously, Stephanie served in various roles including Director of Corporate Affairs and Executive Assistant at several investment firms.

Stephanie holds a B.A. in Sociology from San Francisco State University.

James is General Counsel at Haun Ventures.

Prior to joining Haun Ventures, James served as Crypto Counsel at a16z crypto, where he worked on the firm’s policy and regulatory strategy. Previously, James practiced law at Cooley LLP in San Francisco, where he advised venture capital firms, public companies, and startups on various matters including private placements, capital markets offerings, and corporate governance.

James holds a B.A. summa cum laude in Economics-Philosophy from Columbia University, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Rachael is Chief Marketing Officer at Haun Ventures.

Prior to joining Haun Ventures, Rachael served as an Operating Partner at a16z crypto, where she led marketing and communications. Previously, Rachael served as Vice President of Communications at Coinbase. Rachael has served as Communications Director at Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and as a Marketing & Communications Partner at Spark Capital. Rachael began her career at Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Burns & Associates, a communications firm that provides political consulting and issues management services.

Rachael holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington.

Chris is an Operating Partner at Haun Ventures.

Prior to joining Haun Ventures, Chris served on the executive management team of Airbnb and led the company’s policy and communications work from 2015 to 2021. Previously, Chris co-founded Fabiani & Lehane, a strategic consultancy that advised political, corporate, technology, entertainment, and professional sports clients. In the 1990s, he served in various positions in the administration of President Bill Clinton, including as Press Secretary to Vice President Al Gore and Special Assistant Counsel to President Clinton. Chris has also served as a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Chris holds a B.A. from Amherst College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Breck is a Partner at Haun Ventures.

Previously, Breck was the first employee at Zora. As a senior software engineer he contributed to the core protocol, built and managed its SDKs, and scaled the backend that powers the Zora API.
Prior to Zora, Breck began his career on the crypto engineering team at Coinbase where he helped to build the systems that scaled Coinbase’s retail and institutional support of over 50 new crypto assets. While at Coinbase, Breck also led the crypto engineering efforts for one of the earliest Coinbase defi products.

Breck attended Vanderbilt University and received his B.S cum laude in both Computer Science and Human and Organizational Development.

Chris is a Partner at Haun Ventures.

Chris started his career at Morgan Stanley and later joined Hellman & Friedman, an investment firm with over $80 billion AUM. It was there that he discovered open source, which led him to join GitHub in 2015.

At GitHub, Chris was involved in numerous initiatives, including helping to start and lead the Strategic Finance and Business Operations teams, creating the company’s first operating plan, helping to scale the sales team, launching the marketplace product, and leading the acquisition with Microsoft.

After the GitHub acquisition, Chris became a Partner at Index Ventures to invest in the next generation of community-led businesses. He helped sponsor Index’s investments in Notion and Figma and later spearheaded their crypto efforts, including their investment in Fireblocks.

Chris is originally from Korea and has a B.S. in Foreign Service for International Economics from Georgetown University.

Sam is a Partner and Investment Team Lead at Haun Ventures.

Previously, Sam was a Partner at Polychain Capital, where he helped institutionalize the firm and led business development efforts for the multi-billion dollar Crypto and Venture Funds.

Prior to Polychain, Sam was an early employee and Director of Global Business Development at Coinbase. In his five years at Coinbase, from 2014 to 2019, Sam led initiatives spanning international expansion, corporate development and M&A, strategic partnerships, and special projects for the office of the CTO. Sam made Coinbase’s first-ever venture investment in 2016 and hired the team that would go on to form Coinbase Ventures.

Sam has been investing in the crypto ecosystem since 2013, building a personal portfolio which includes projects at each layer of the tech stack. Earlier in his career, Sam worked in the Global Strategy Group at Visa, where he focused on strategic initiatives for the core network processing business. Prior to that, he was a hedge fund strategy analyst at Lake Partners and an M&A specialist at the U.S Department of Justice.

Sam attended the Honors College at University of California, Los Angeles.

Katie is the Founder and CEO of Haun Ventures where she and the team raised a $500 million early stage fund and a $1 billion acceleration fund to invest in the future of web3.

Previously, Katie was a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) where she co-led the firm’s three crypto funds. She joined in June 2018 as its eleventh general partner and first female general partner. Prior to a16z, Katie spent a decade as a federal prosecutor focusing on fraud, cyber, and corporate crime alongside agencies including the SEC, FBI, and Treasury. She created the government’s first cryptocurrency task force and led investigations into the Mt. Gox hack and the corrupt agents on the Silk Road task force.

While with the U.S. Department of Justice, Katie prosecuted RICO murders, organized crime, public corruption, gangs, and money laundering. She also held senior policy positions at Justice Department headquarters in both the National Security Division and Attorney General’s office where her portfolio included antitrust, tax, and national security. While in the private sector, Katie has testified before both the House and Senate on the intersection of technology and regulation. She has taught a course on crypto at Stanford Business School and on cybercrime at Stanford Law School.

Katie clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and is an honors graduate of Stanford Law School. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Katie currently serves on the board of Coinbase.