Launching two crypto funds totaling $1.5 billion is an exciting accomplishment, particularly for a girl in an business that’s nonetheless male-dominated. It’s decidedly much less thrilling when, only a few months later, the backside of the fund’s goal market doesn’t simply drop, but additionally practically disintegrates. How do you progress ahead?
We’re excited to study the reply to that and plenty of extra questions when Katie Haun, founder and CEO of Haun Ventures, joins us at Ztoog Disrupt 2023, which runs September 19–21 in San Francisco.
Crypto VC corporations raised greater than $22 billion in 2022, in contrast with simply $2 billion raised at this level in 2023. And but — to paraphrase Monty Python — the crypto market will not be lifeless but. Last June, Haun Ventures led a $10 million seed spherical for Argus, a web3 gaming studio. The VC agency has led different funding rounds for Sovereign Labs, thirdweb, Euler, TaxBit, Highlight and Zora.
How has the crypto market disaster impacted Haun’s technique — each in the sorts of investments she makes and in the timeframe for deploying all that dry powder? Given the business’s volatility, and Haun’s background as a federal prosecutor on a cryptocurrency job power, we’re additionally to listen to her tackle regulating the crypto business.
Don’t miss what’s positive to be an enchanting dialogue about the present and future state of crypto and web3 funding.
Katie Haun: Haun Ventures founder and CEO
Katie Haun and her group raised a $500 million early-stage fund and a $1 billion acceleration fund to put money into the future of web3. Previously, Haun joined Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in 2018 as its eleventh basic associate — and its first feminine basic associate — the place she co-led the agency’s three crypto funds.
Prior to a16z, Haun spent a decade as a federal prosecutor specializing in fraud and cyber and company crime alongside companies reminiscent of the SEC, FBI and Treasury Department. She created the authorities’s first cryptocurrency job power and led investigations into the Mt. Gox hack and the corrupt brokers on the Silk Road job power.
While with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Haun prosecuted RICO murders, organized crime, public corruption, gangs and cash laundering. She additionally held senior coverage positions at DOJ headquarters in each the National Security Division and the Attorney General’s workplace, the place her portfolio included antitrust, tax and nationwide safety.
Since becoming a member of the personal sector, Haun has testified earlier than each the House and Senate on the intersection of expertise and regulation. She has taught a course on crypto at Stanford Business School and on cybercrime at Stanford Law School.
Haun 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, and he or she at the moment serves on the board of Coinbase.
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