Kathryn Haun

Kathryn Haun is founder of Haun Ventures, "a firm built to uniquely serve the teams building the third generation of the internet, or web3." Haun Ventures was launched with the largest venture fund raised by a solo female founding partner.

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She was a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice for over a decade. Since 2006, she has served as Assistant U.S. Attorney, first in the Washington D.C. area and then in San Francisco, California. She has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of violations of federal criminal law in U.S. courts, with a focus on transnational and organized crime syndicates, cybercrime, the deep web, and digital currency.

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Katie is a former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and is a member of the Libra Association's Board of Directors. She serves on the Board of Directors of Coinbase, the world's leading digital asset platform. She taught cybercrime and cryptocurrency at Stanford Law School and lectured in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Kathryn speaks frequently on the intersection of technology and regulation, having appeared in Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and has testified before Congress.

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She previously worked on national security issues and held senior positions in the Justice Department, including Counselor to Attorney General Michael Mukasey and as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security. Prior to that she was in private practice at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington D.C. She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and is an Honors graduate of Stanford Law School where she served as Managing Editor of the Stanford Law Review.