{"id":59111,"date":"2022-03-23T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59111"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:11:38","slug":"haun-ventures-led-by-katie-haun-of-a16z-raises-1-5-billion-for-web-3-0-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/haun-ventures-led-by-katie-haun-of-a16z-raises-1-5-billion-for-web-3-0-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Haun Ventures, led by Katie Haun of a16z, raises $1.5 billion for Web 3.0 investments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haun Ventures, the firm associated with Katie Haun, a former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), attracted $1.5 billion<\/a> in two crypto funds focused on Web 3.0.<\/p>\n

According to Axios, the funding was provided by a16z, some of the firm’s partners, endowments, charitable organizations and family offices.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe will invest across the entire stack of<\/em> Web 3.0<\/em><\/a>. There remains innovative potential in specialized blockchains, but Layer 2 solutions may be the key to solving some of the problems of<\/em> Web 2.0<\/em><\/a>, such as identity and security,\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Haun said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Haun Ventures focuses on developer tools, end-to-end NFT services and software for digital-asset taxation.<\/p>\n

$500 million will go into a structure for investments in early-stage startups, $1 billion into creating an accelerator.<\/p>\n

Investments are contemplated in both equity and tokens. To pursue the latter, the firm intends to become a registered investment adviser (RIA).<\/p>\n

Haun left<\/a> a16z for her own project in December 2021.<\/p>\n

As a managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Haun participated in some of the firm’s most notable investments, including deals with OpenSea<\/a>, Celo<\/a>, Arweave and Royal<\/a>. The current CEO of Haun Ventures was also co-chair of a crypto fund worth more than $2.2 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Haun Ventures, linked to former Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) general partner Katie Haun, raised $1.5 billion in two crypto funds focused on Web 3.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1531,1156,1133],"class_list":["post-59111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-a16z-crypto","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59113,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59111\/revisions\/59113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}