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Katie Haun

Former federal prosecutor, Haun Ventures

Search every verified Katie Haun interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Katie Haun, founder of Haun Ventures and former federal prosecutor, spoke at the Machine Earning AI Summit in San Francisco on September 29, 2026. She discussed her firm's recent $1 billion capital raise, which she said would be directed toward opportunities in what she called the "machine economy" and the "future of finance," including new financial infrastructure. Haun contrasted her background in law and government with that of other venture capitalists, noting that her experience includes creating the Department of Justice's first government task force on crypto and serving on Coinbase's board for eight years. During the summit, Haun drew parallels between the regulatory and public relations challenges facing AI companies and those previously encountered by the crypto industry. She stated that public backlash against AI is greater than what crypto faced, citing examples such as criticism of Bitcoin's energy use and current concerns about data centers. She also commented on a failed crypto bill in Congress, saying it was not devastating to the industry and pointed to crypto markets rising after the bill's failure. Additionally, Haun discussed potential legal liability for AI agents, suggesting that while the government typically targets larger entities rather than individual users, "bad facts make bad law" in testing the bounds of existing regulations.

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“The public backlash with AI is even greater because there's more eyeballs on it, more people are paying attention to it than the public backlash that the crypto markets faced. If you recall back to 2013 to 2017, it was all about Bitcoin is bad for the environment. It is using up all our energy and Bitcoin mining is really going to be a real problem for our planet. And now we're hearing the same kind of public backlas”

“The lens at which I look at these opportunities through is not the same as a lot of other VCs. The entire first chapter of my career was in law, was in government, and I learned how to work within the government through that chapter. And now we have a fresh billion dollars raised of capital to pursue the opportunities that we're calling the machine economy and the future of finance. We see kind of three buckets. Firs”

“I think a lot of founders mistakenly focus on the here and now. And, you know, the here and now changes just like the technology changes. So to do who's who's looking at these technologies. And also my other advice to founders is they focus on one branch of government. And invariably and in this country we have three branches of government. And I think we're lucky we do. We've got article three, the courts. It's real”

“I think in general, I support things that are conflicts of interest as a general matter. And that's why I'm a big supporter. And I have publicly supported, for example, the bipartisan legislation that Representative Brian Stiles proposed to ban insider trading in Congress like it's it's legal, but is it a good look atmospherically or optically? I don't think so. Um, so I'd say the same thing. I'd say the same thing i”

“I think what we're doing with this new billion dollars is we're planning to back founders building what we're calling is the new economy, the future of finance, and certainly digital assets are a part of that. And I see really only three structural shifts going on. And this is what we're following. So the first structural shift is new financial infrastructure, the plumbing if you will, of for the new innovation econo”

“I think the really transformational crypto framework is also the market structure bill. And I know there's been a lot of talk of both. Of course the question that has stymied kind of courts and crypto founders is what's a security, what's a commodity, who's going to regulate those? And there's a perfect opportunity for the Senate and the House to also get that bill.”

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