Katie Haun's Venture Firm Secures $1B Fund, Expands From Crypto Into Artificial Intelligence
Katie Haun, founder of Haun Ventures, explained that artificial intelligence will "increasingly begin to conduct economic activity on our behalf," requiring services to evolve for this emerging landscape.
A fresh $1 billion capital raise by Haun Ventures will support both early-stage and late-stage cryptocurrency companies, marking the firm's inaugural move into the artificial intelligence sector.
The capital deployment will concentrate on three key sectors: cryptocurrency financial infrastructure, tokenization and AI agents. Katie Haun, who founded the firm, described these domains as representing the "new economy."
"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," said Haun, a former US government prosecutor turned crypto executive, in a blog post on Monday.
"The foundations of capital, commerce and trust are undergoing meaningful structural changes," she added. "The founders who can see across all of it, and build accordingly, will be defining entrepreneurs of this era."
The development represents a significant shift for Haun Ventures, marking the firm's inaugural venture into AI startup investments after previously maintaining an exclusive focus on cryptocurrency, thereby joining numerous venture capital firms rushing into the rapidly expanding industry.
According to a Crunchbase report from April, artificial intelligence companies secured a record-breaking $242 billion in venture capital during the first quarter of 2026, representing 80% of total global venture funding throughout the quarter, which reached an unprecedented $300 billion.
Haun's vision for AI agents
According to Haun, AI agents, which are software systems that autonomously perform tasks, will "increasingly begin to conduct economic activity on our behalf," necessitating that new products and services be "developed for a world in which computers are the customers."
At present, AI agents process a relatively modest volume of payments, approximately $1.6 million worth during a 30-day period as of early March, according to Andreessen Horowitz partner Noah Levine, a figure that the Boston Consulting Group projects will grow to $2.4 trillion a year by 2029.
"Every supporting layer will need to be rearchitected for this world: fraud prevention, credit, insurance, identity, privacy, provenance, reputation, and verification all require native versions designed for how agents transact, and cryptographic tools will be important here," she added.
At the same time, Haun explained that "the core plumbing of global finance" was undergoing transformation to support an always-on digital ecosystem, and highlighted tokenization as a technology enabling traditional assets such as gold and oil to become "borderless, always on, and programmable."
In an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, she revealed that her company aims to concentrate on the intersection of AI agents and crypto infrastructure, seeking to invest in "AI that is in our lane."