An experienced team of builders, operators, and industry veterans.
Katie Haun is Founder and CEO of Haun Ventures, a global venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley that manages billions in investments in digital assets and frontier tech. The firm’s institutional investors include prominent sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, pensions, financial institutions, and other global organizations.
Katie is a sought after board member and personal investor. As Coinbase’s first and longest-serving independent director, she was an early architect of the company’s global regulatory strategy, serving through its IPO and subsequent growth as a publicly traded company. She also served as Chair of the Nomination and Governance and the Audit and Risk Committees. Katie is a personal investor in companies like Anthropic, Cerebras, Coinbase, Cognition, Databricks, Deel, Edison, Figma (IPO), Groq (acquired by NVIDIA), OpenAI, Physical Intelligence, Replit, Revolut, and SpaceX.
Prior to her venture career, Katie spent over a decade as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. She secured successful jury verdicts in every case she tried and led high-profile prosecutions related to the Silk Road task force, the 2012 Hells Angels murder trial, and the Nuestra Familia prison gang RICO takedown. She also led cyber, corporate, and violent crime investigations in partnership with the FBI, Homeland Security, SEC, and Treasury, and established the DOJ’s first digital currency task force. At headquarters, she held senior positions in the National Security Division and the Attorney General’s office where her portfolio covered antitrust, tax, and national security. Katie represented the DOJ on CFIUS and the FBI Committee that approved all significant national security undercover operations.
She was later recruited as a General Partner to Andreessen Horowitz, where she co-led their blockchain franchise, investing out of three funds with billions under management.
She has testified as an expert on the intersection of technology and regulation before both houses of Congress, and taught at Stanford Business School and Stanford Law School. An honors graduate of Stanford Law School, she clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Personal holdings described above were made in an individual capacity and not on behalf of Haun Ventures Management LP or its clients. The list is only a subset reflecting certain technology companies, and does not reflect all personal holdings. These are not indicative of investment recommendations or strategies offered by Haun Ventures Management LP.
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. 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.
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.
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.
Previously, Mark was an Associate at Boost VC, where he ran the crypto desk and supported pre-seed investments across robotics, biotech, AI, VR, space, and oceans. Prior to Boost VC, Mark was a Software Developer at ConsenSys and founded The Bounties Network, one of the first smart contract protocols on Ethereum to cross $1 million in TVL. Mark was also the Co-Founder of Myco, Bond, and The Pixel Portraits, all focused on helping internet-native organizations use tokenized incentives to scale their contributors into the tens of thousands. Mark started his career in crypto at Deloitte’s consulting practice, delivering private Ethereum applications for Fortune 500 companies dipping their toes into public blockchains.
Mark holds a B.C.S. from the University of Waterloo and a B.B.A. from Wilfrid Laurier University.
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Prior to joining Haun Ventures, Kevin served as Chief Financial Officer at NFX, where he oversaw the firm’s financial operations. Prior to joining NFX, Kevin worked at Allvue Systems, managing the implementation of alternative investment accounting software for venture capital and private equity firms in the Bay Area. He began his career as an auditor at Deloitte serving clients in the asset management space.
Kevin holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Redlands and is a CPA (inactive) in California.
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.
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.
Prior to joining Haun Ventures, Yasmeen spent over five years at Juniper Square in various operations and management roles. She most recently served as Senior Implementation Project Manager and was a founding member of the company’s project management function, where she led fund administration and software implementations for institutional clients. Yasmeen previously held roles at Williams-Sonoma, Inc., where she focused on website analytics, and at Symantec, where she was a Business Operations Intern.
Yasmeen holds a B.S. in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Economics from the University of Oregon. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).