Katie Haun on venture capital
From VC Haun on Investing in the Frontiers of AI Agents · · Bloomberg Live
“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 economy. And that's um 24 over seven and it's global. And then the second structural shift is new assets things like stablecoins that were just beginning stablecoins. Now we're seeing tokenization of securities of stocks and bonds and other instruments. Um, and of course that leads to new markets. We can talk about things like prediction markets or perpetual futures markets. And then the third structural shift that we're paying a lot of attention to is what I'll call agenda, the agenda finance piece of it. And this is quite simply, what does a world look like when you're building financial services and products for an end user? That's not a user, it's not a human, but it's a computer or an agent.”
On , Katie Haun, Former federal prosecutor at Haun Ventures, spoke about venture capital during VC Haun on Investing in the Frontiers of AI Agents on Bloomberg Live.
About Katie Haun
Katie Haun, founder and CEO of Haun Ventures, announced in May 2026 that the firm raised $1 billion across a pair of new funds. Haun stated the capital is intended to back founders building what she described as "the new economy," which she said involves an intersection between AI and digital assets. She identified three structural shifts the firm is following: new financial infrastructure, new assets such as stablecoins and tokenized securities, and what she called "agentic finance." Haun also noted that the firm had already returned capital to some limited partners from its first pair of funds. In interviews, Haun discussed the regulatory environment for digital assets, noting the passage of the Genius Act and the upcoming crypto market structure bill. She said lawmakers still need convincing and emphasized the importance of working with both political parties. Regarding the Trump family's crypto ventures, Haun said she supports "things that are conflicts of interest as a general matter" and cited her support for bipartisan legislation to ban insider trading in Congress, adding that she considers the optics and atmospherics of such ventures important. Haun also expressed concern about the erosion of financial privacy under the Bank Secrecy Act, a topic she said she discussed when she was a prosecutor. She advised founders to consider all three branches of government and to look beyond Washington, D.C., noting that state governments and international regulators also play a role.