Katie Haun
Katie Haun is the founder and CEO of Haun Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology. She previously served as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she co-led the firm's crypto investment franchise, and was the first independent board member of Coinbase from 2017 to 2024. Prior to her venture capital career, she spent over a decade as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where she led high-profile cyber and financial crime prosecutions and established the DOJ's first digital currency task force.
“She compared the AI industry's rapid growth and regulatory hurdles to what crypto companies went through. She noted that, as with crypto startups, AI companies seem unprepared for the public backlash they are now facing.”
“Katie Haun ... predicted the courts, not Congress, will draw the lines on liability for bad agent behavior, with user intent tested case by case.”
Source→“'We're not pivoting to be an AI fund... we want to do AI that is in our lane' — meaning the agentic economy, specifically AI agents that need to transact, pay, and access credit natively.”
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