Haun Ventures, a global venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley that manages billions in investments in digital assets and frontier tech, has raised $1 bn across two new investment funds, a significant bet that the foundational plumbing of global finance is on the verge of a structural overhaul driven by digital assets and artificial intelligence, splitting the capital evenly between early-stage and later-stage vehicles.
The firm plans to deploy the capital over the next two to three years while keeping its focus on crypto and blockchain infrastructure startups. At the same time, the new funds expand the strategy into AI for the first time.
Haun Ventures was founded in 2022 by Katie Haun, the former federal prosecutor and ex-general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. The firm launched with a $1.5 bn debut fund focused largely on blockchain infrastructure and crypto markets.
Now the mandate is broader. Haun Ventures still sees digital assets as a major infrastructure category, though it increasingly views AI systems and autonomous agents as part of the same financial transition.
“I’ve been following the flow of assets my entire career, and this is the most dynamic period in technology and finance I’ve ever witnessed,” Haun wrote. “The founders rethinking financial assets and markets have always had to be bold. They operate in spaces where the rules are unsettled, incomplete, or simply unwritten – in short, they shape the frontier. That means they need partners who understand both the technology and the regulatory terrain around it.”
According to Beinsure analysts, venture capital firms are starting to treat AI agents, stablecoins, tokenisation infrastructure, and machine-driven payments as interconnected markets rather than separate sectors. That convergence changes where infrastructure investment flows next.
Haun Ventures says its strategy centers around three areas: crypto financial infrastructure, tokenisation, and AI agents.
Katie Haun described these sectors as pillars of a new digital economy where trust systems, commerce infrastructure, and capital flows are being rebuilt simultaneously. She argues future technology companies will emerge directly from this overlap between autonomous systems and programmable finance.
The firm sees tokenisation as one of the largest long-term opportunities inside financial infrastructure. Tokenisation converts real-world assets such as commodities, securities, oil, or gold into digital blockchain-based representations that remain programmable and continuously accessible.
Financial institutions have started moving cautiously into the space. Large banks, asset managers, and payment firms increasingly test tokenized bonds, digital settlement systems, and blockchain-based collateral infrastructure as transaction volumes around stablecoins continue rising.
Haun Ventures also expects AI agents to become active economic participants rather than passive software tools.
These systems already perform operational tasks with limited autonomy, including software purchasing, payments, subscription management, and transactional workflows.
The firm believes future AI systems will require entirely new financial infrastructure capable of supporting machine-to-machine economic activity at scale.
That means payment systems, identity verification layers, fraud controls, and credit infrastructure will need redesigns built specifically around automated actors rather than human users alone.
“From seed stage to scale, we back the boldest builders defining the next generation of the global economy. We believe that decentralized technology is the foundation for a more efficient, transparent, and accessible financial system. Today, it enables the rise of stablecoins and instant cross-border payments; tomorrow, it will underpin the entire digital landscape.”
Haun says financial infrastructure still operates around assumptions tied to human interaction patterns. AI agents change those assumptions fast.
Current AI-driven payment volumes remain relatively small, estimated around $1.6 mn over a recent 30-day period. Forecasts for the broader market look much larger. Some projections estimate AI-powered payment activity could reach roughly $2.4 tn annually by 2029.
If those forecasts materialize, infrastructure pressure follows immediately.
Blockchain systems sit near the center of Haun Ventures’ thesis because cryptographic networks already provide several capabilities machine-led commerce requires, including programmable payments, transparent verification, automated execution, and persistent digital identity frameworks.
The firm argues blockchain infrastructure increasingly moves beyond speculative crypto trading into operational financial systems tied directly to payments, settlement rails, capital markets, and insurance infrastructure.
Stablecoin adoption reinforces that view. Annual stablecoin transaction volumes already measure in the trillions, signaling broader acceptance of blockchain-based payment infrastructure across both crypto-native and institutional markets.
Haun Ventures also points to improving regulatory conditions in the United States around digital assets. The firm says the environment for crypto infrastructure investment appears more supportive compared with previous cycles marked by regulatory uncertainty and enforcement pressure.
Competition inside the market continues intensifying. Large venture firms and generalist investors increasingly move into digital asset infrastructure, AI systems, and fintech convergence plays as infrastructure demand accelerates around autonomous software economies.
Haun Ventures plans to deploy capital globally across both early-stage and later-stage companies building these systems.
The firm believes crypto and AI no longer operate as isolated technology categories. Instead, blockchain infrastructure becomes the transaction and trust layer supporting machine-driven economic systems powered by autonomous AI agents.
Haun describes the current moment as a structural rebuilding phase for global financial infrastructure. Her view is blunt enough. As machines begin acting like customers, workers, and counterparties, the underlying financial rails must change with them.
Katie Haun is Founder and CEO of Haun Ventures.
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.
