Launching two crypto funds totaling $1.5 billion is an exciting accomplishment, particularly for a girl in an trade that’s nonetheless male-dominated. It’s decidedly much less thrilling when, just some months later, the underside of the fund’s goal market doesn’t simply drop, but in addition almost disintegrates. How do you progress ahead?
We’re excited to be taught the reply to that and lots of extra questions when Katie Haun, founder and CEO of Haun Ventures, joins us at TechCrunch 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 isn’t lifeless but. Final June, Haun Ventures led a $10 million seed round for Argus, a web3 gaming studio. The VC agency has led different funding rounds for Sovereign Labs, thirdweb, Euler, TaxBit, Spotlight and Zora.
How has the crypto market disaster impacted Haun’s technique — each within the forms of investments she makes and within the timeframe for deploying all that dry powder? Given the trade’s volatility, and Haun’s background as a federal prosecutor on a cryptocurrency activity pressure, we’re additionally to listen to her tackle regulating the crypto trade.
Don’t miss what’s certain to be an enchanting dialogue in regards to the present and future state of crypto and web3 funding.
Katie Haun: Haun Ventures founder and CEO
Katie Haun and her staff raised a $500 million early-stage fund and a $1 billion acceleration fund to put money into the way forward for web3. Beforehand, Haun joined Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in 2018 as its eleventh common companion — and its first feminine common companion — the place she co-led the agency’s three crypto funds.
Previous to a16z, Haun spent a decade as a federal prosecutor specializing in fraud and cyber and company crime alongside companies such because the SEC, FBI and Treasury Division. She created the federal government’s first cryptocurrency activity pressure and led investigations into the Mt. Gox hack and the corrupt brokers on the Silk Highway activity pressure.
Whereas with the U.S. Division 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 Nationwide Safety Division and the Lawyer Common’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 Home and Senate on the intersection of know-how and regulation. She has taught a course on crypto at Stanford Enterprise Faculty and on cybercrime at Stanford Regulation Faculty.
Haun clerked for U.S. Supreme Court docket Justice Anthony Kennedy and is an honors graduate of Stanford Regulation Faculty. She is a lifetime member of the Council on International Relations, and he or she at present serves on the board of Coinbase.
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