Katie Haun
@katie_haun
Founder and CEO @HaunVentures. Alum @Coinbase Board, @a16z, @TheJusticeDept, @Stanford, @USSupremeCourt w/Justice Kennedy. Teach from time to time @StanfordGSB.
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I first met @ScottWu46 over breakfast 2+ years ago when Cognition was a handful of hackers living and working out of a house. Today, the company announced a Series E and has built one of the most talent dense teams in tech. Proud to be an early investor and advisor - congrats to the whole Cog team.
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The world needs far more software than it can build. Cognition exists to change that.
We’ve just raised over $2B at a $48B valuation, led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir.
Since our round in May, run-rate revenue has grown from $492 M to almost $900 M.
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Congrats @iampaulgrewal on the next move. Getting to work alongside him at Coinbase was a privilege. Looking forward to more of that as he builds the next chapter at Cognition.
Devin just got new counsel. Today I’m joining @cognition as Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer.
Proud to have personally joined this cap table earlier this year. @Neko is rewriting the rules on early detection and preventive care. Can't wait until Neko scans are available in the US later this year. Congratulations to @eldsjal,@HNilsonne, @shak and the team.
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We've raised a $700M Series C, led by @lightspeedvp and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners.
Since 2023, more than 350,000 people have signed up for a Neko Health Scan, and 100,000 people have experienced one.
Today, our approach to redefining how people understand and act on their health is already working: for returning members, our data shows that 5 out of 7 of their key health markers showed statistically significant improvement between scans.
This funding will scale our research into the hidden causes of disease and the development of proprietary technology to detect it before it has time to develop. It will also fund our continued expansion, including to the US, where our first clinic is set to open in New York this year.
This round comes weeks after our biggest update yet to the Neko Health Scan, with body composition measures and clinician review of wearable data now included in all scans across our clinics in the UK and Sweden.
We're grateful for the continued support of @atomico, @generalcatalyst, and Lakestar, and welcome new investors including Liberty City Ventures, Positive Sum, and BDT & MSD Partners.
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When a team ships this much, at this velocity, across product and works this hard to grow and delight customers across the globe, my job is pretty easy.
Congrats to everyone at @airwallex on this milestone.
Personally delighted to have the @katie_haun and the @HaunVentures in the fam 🥰 (they are existing investors btw).
Follow: @lancectk @t0finance @bzlwang @cclayporter @metalntwx @shannonscott
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Really enjoyed sitting down with @emilychangtv at the @BloombergLive Tech Summit last week. We talked about how we’re putting our new $1 billion fund to work, what the convergence of AI and digital assets actually looks like in practice, and early cases I prosecuted. Thanks for having me.
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"We're planning to back founders building what we're calling the new economy, the future of finance, certainly digital assets are part of that." Founder & CEO @HaunVentures' @katie_haun. #BloombergTech# @emilychangtv
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Every team serious about building a high-performance chain has spent years reinventing the same primitives, often before writing a single line of product code. Constantinople changes that calculus entirely, and you can deploy it yourself in weeks. 👇
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70k tps
400ms finalization
browser light client
native passkey wallet
… now available (for free)
A must listen with the one and only @jackiereses
BREAKING: Inside Lead Bank - $56M Investment Now Worth $1.5 BILLION
Jackie Reses is on an iconic run.
@Lead_Bank is the $1.5B tech-first bank powering Stripe, Walmart, Ramp, Affirm & Revolut
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Greycroft, ICONIQ, Khosla Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Zeev Partners, plus Larry Fink, Rob Goldstein & Larry Summers personally.
CEO & Co-Founder Jackie Reses (@jackiereses)
We cover:
- Sitting on Alibaba's board with Jack Ma, Joe Tsai + Masayoshi Son
"Masa would come in & be like, 'Yes, it shall be blessed.'"
- Taking an HR role at Yahoo, then turning it into Chief Development Officer
- Jack Dorsey: "He'll sit in meetings & not say a word. There's real wisdom in his ability to 'just zip it.' "
- Why she's skeptical of the de-banking narrative
- Building Lead to $280M in revenue with no sales team
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Jackie Reses, CEO of Lead Bank
(01:06) The swiss army knife of Silicon Valley
(02:46) Inside the Alibaba boardroom with Jack Ma and Masa
(05:23) Being one of the only Americans on Alibaba’s board
(10:29) What Jack Ma and Masayoshi Son are really like
(12:32) The biggest lessons Jackie learned from Alibaba
(15:12) From Goldman Sachs to Silicon Valley
(17:44) Why Yahoo hired a PE investor to run HR
(22:53) Yahoo was a hot mess
(25:33) The deal that recovered billions for Yahoo
(26:31) How Jack Dorsey recruited Jackie to Square
(29:53) Three engineers, three days, one crypto platform
(33:51) What Jack Dorsey is really like
(36:13) Being Jack Dorsey’s HR lead during Twitter chaos
(40:03) How to spot real innovation vs hype
(42:21) Why debanking is a myth
(48:10) Why buy a 100 year old bank
(51:23) Growing a bank with no sales team
(54:11) The APIs powering the future of finance
(56:03) How AI is transforming banking
(57:07) The JD Vance connection
(58:39) What it feels like inside the White House
(01:02:53) The biggest misconception about government
(01:04:21) Why Lead Bank’s culture feels different
(01:05:35) The next chapter for Lead Bank
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The account built for global businesses.
Move money across 150+ countries with ACH, Wire, SEPA, SWIFT, and stablecoin rails across multiple chains. All from a single balance.
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One of my favorite podcast appearances, with @l2k. There is a long history of AI overpromising and underdelivering in biotech and pharma -- why is this time different? Super fun episode.
It's been great getting to work with @ScottWu46 and the all-star team he's assembled at @cognition over the last couple years. Even more impressive is that they're just getting started: just 2.5 years in and they already have marquee customers in every vertical. Congrats to everyone at Cog!
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1/ We’ve raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by @Lux_Capital, @generalcatalyst, and @8vc.
Our enterprise usage has grown >10x since the start of this year, and our run-rate revenue grew to $492 M.
We launched Devin two years ago as the first AI software engineer. Since then, cloud agents have gone from niche to mainstream, and today they are the fastest growing way to create software.
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Introducing Co-Invest. (@coinvestai)
The first way to trade directly through ChatGPT and Claude.
We live in a golden age of biology. So why are people still dying from disease?
Because discovery and development move slower than they should.
Today, we’re partnering with Incyte to change that.
Kosmos is now the first agent that can compress months of drug development into weeks, from the earliest stages of scientific discovery through to FDA approval. @Incyte will be the first company to deploy it across their pipeline.
Work that used to take a team of scientists months now happens in weeks.
Patients can't wait, and neither can we.
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Throwback to exactly 5 years ago @RonConway @brian_armstrong @iampaulgrewal and I were in DC making the case for common sense crypto regulation. Today CLARITY cleared the Senate Banking Committee on a bipartisan basis. Patience pays –congrats to everyone who made this possible.
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Today, we’re announcing Route 66 (a new initiative co-led by @coinbase to make it faster and cheaper to connect to specialized blockchains) and a strategic investment from @cbventures.
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Haun Ventures CEO @katie_haun says we’re entering a new economy defined by three structural shifts: financial rails, new asset classes, and the agentic future.
"We're taking this new fund of $1B and backing founders who are building what we're calling the new economy. When I say the new economy, I'm thinking about three structural shifts we're seeing right now."
"The first is new financial rails and infrastructure. Think companies like Erebor. Gone are bankers hours and wire cut-offs. I mean, you're talking about global from day one, 24/7. This is a bank that opened on a Sunday."
"Second are new assets and markets. It started as stablecoins, but we're now talking about tokenizing the stock market. You see companies like BlackRock, Coinbase, and Robinhood doing that. But it's also opened up new markets like prediction and perpetual markets."
"The third structural shift is what we're calling the agentic future. It's not just AI broadly, it's where AI and crypto intersect. We're talking about building for a world where the end user is not necessarily a human of a financial product or service, but is a computer or an agent. How does that impact things like privacy? How does it impact things like provenance and trust? What form will they use? How will agents pay for things or subscribe to services?"
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It was great to join @BloombergTV this morning as we unveiled our new funds and talked about the future as we see it at Haun Ventures. Wonderful to chat with you, @CarolineHydeTV
Banking hours and wire transfer cutoffs will be a thing of the past thanks to agentic finances, says Crypto-focused investor Haun Ventures CEO Katie Haun
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The 9th Circuit (which governs the 9 western states) recently heard oral arguments in the Kalshi prediction markets case. At issue: does the CFTC or individual states get to regulate sports-related prediction markets. There are ≅50 judges on the 9th Circuit. The 3 judges Kalshi drew seemed ideal for them — all relatively young and appointed by Trump in what’s historically been the most liberal circuit in the country.
And yet, it didn’t matter. Kalshi’s argument that its sports event contracts are federally regulated derivatives under the exclusive jurisdiction of the CFTC landed flat. The panel appeared consistently skeptical. My prediction: Kalshi loses this one. Counterintuitively, that may be the best outcome for them over the long term. More on that another time.
(Full disclosure used to work with and know 2 of these judges and also clerked on the Ninth Circuit)
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The SEC just gave DeFi frontends a meaningful signal: if you're not custodying assets or executing orders, we won't come after you. Most detailed safe harbor yet. But it's not a rule, it expires in 5 years, next administration can pull it, etc. More substance than we’ve seen in a staff statement. Still not a rule. Still expires. But it’s solid progress in the right direction.
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