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After leaving a16z, Katie Haun announced plans to raise nearly a billion dollars to invest in various crypto projects, including NFTs and Web3. However, she broke her own expectations by raising $1.5 billion.
- CryptoPotato reported in December last year Haunās plans to leave Andreessen Horowitz, where she occupied the position of General Partner for years, focusing on digital assets.
- Later on, she outlined her intentions to secure $900 million for her newly-found fund to invest in cryptocurrency projects.
- According to a CNBC report, though, her fund managed to raise nearly twice the money she intended at first ā $1.5 billion. Thus, she broke Mary Meekerās record of the largest amount raised by a solo female founding partner.
- She noted that the funds will primarily go for crypto projects and Web3-oriented companies, claiming that this is the ānew era of the Internet, and it deserves a new era of investors.ā
āThatās something Iāve learned through being involved in deploying three other crypto funds: thereās still a ton of potential in crypto and Web3 equity business models, but also token business models. I donāt think that you can really be a crypto investor without holding tokens.ā ā she added.
- Haunās new fund will be divided into two segments. $500 million will go for early-stage companies, while the remaining $1 billion will be for later-stage projects.
- The past several months have seen a rapidly increasing number of companies and crypto projects allocating funds towards the upcoming Web3. Some examples include Polkadot, Hashed, Castle Islands, and more.
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