Katie Haun
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.