Compliance

8 VCs and 42 funds investing in Compliance

VCs investing in Compliance

Lukas Etter

Co-CIO & General Partner

CV VC

Check: CV VC's published early-stage program invests up to $500,000 in qualifying pre-seed and seed companies with an MVP and initial traction. This is a firm program limit, not Lukas's personal allocation range; other vehicles and follow-ons may differ.

Lukas backs early frontier-technology companies building a decentralized and tokenized economy, with a current emphasis on traditional businesses moving onto blockchain rails and the convergence of blockchain with AI. He favors working products with measurable utility, economic or social impact, and operationally credible paths from early traction to institutional or global adoption.

Pre-SeedSeedAccelerator

Coulter Mulligan

Partner, Marketing & Communications

85%

UDHC

Check: Coulter has publicly said UDHC writes checks from pre-seed through Series A. A verified OpenVC firm profile lists $50K–$2M as UDHC's first-check range and says the firm sometimes leads; treat that as directory-level firm guidance rather than a Coulter-specific commitment, and confirm current size and ownership directly.

Coulter works with UDHC's early-stage onchain-finance portfolio, applying a marketing and communications lens to companies that can connect crypto-native infrastructure with the traditional financial system. The firm's public strategy emphasizes useful onchain financial products, strong user experience, regulatory awareness, transparency and a credible path toward decentralization; Coulter's specific contribution is helping technical teams turn those qualities into positioning, community and go-to-market execution.

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Helen Norton

Former Partner, Finance & Operations (departed April 2026)

85%

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Check: Not applicable. Helen is no longer at AirTree and her historical mandate was finance and operations, not a personal Web3 check-writing practice. Current founders should use AirTree's current investment team and published fund channels; operational peers should treat her record as experience, not present firm authority.

Helen's contribution was building an institutional venture platform around the investors and founders: fund finance, governance, compliance, systems, LP relationships, organization and shared learning for portfolio finance leaders. She has highlighted the 'returning entrepreneur' flywheel, where successful founders recycle proceeds and experience into the next generation, and the under-networked position of startup CFOs, addressed through peer forums. This is a fund-building and ecosystem thesis rather than a personal Web3 investment thesis.

Venture-firm formation and scalingFund finance and governanceLimited-partner and investor relations

J Zac Stein

Venture Partner

85%

Craft Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range or deal-lead authority is published. Craft's fund sizes and announced company rounds are not a defensible proxy for J Zac's individual allocation authority.

J Zac contributes an operator and product perspective to Craft's SaaS and marketplace investing. His public profile centers on building people-management software at Lattice, board work at Vanta, and angel investments in workflow, health, compliance, data, and productivity companies. The evidence supports a focus on founder and product judgment, enterprise usability, and scaling software organizations, but Craft publishes no more specific personal thesis.

AngelSeedEarly Stage

Jesse King

Partner, General Counsel

82%

Kleiner Perkins

Check: No Jesse-specific startup check size or allocation authority is public. His documented mandate is legal oversight for Kleiner Perkins and its portfolio companies. Founders seeking financing should contact an investing partner.

Jesse's role is to manage legal risk and enable transactions for Kleiner Perkins and its portfolio. His background spans venture capital financings, M&A, corporate and securities work, litigation and technology-company compliance. The relevant lens is whether governance, ownership, intellectual property, privacy, contracts, employment and regulatory posture are clean enough to support investment and scale—not a personal sector thesis.

Fund and portfolio legal supportVenture financingsMergers and acquisitions

Katie Haun

Founder & CEO

82%

Haun Ventures

Crypto regulation, compliance, and institutional adoption. Former DOJ prosecutor.

SeedSeries ASeries B

Yoann Turpin

Co-founder

80%

Wintermute Ventures

Check: Wintermute Ventures currently publishes flexible $500K–$5M+ global investments, primarily Seed and Series A, using proprietary capital and often leading or co-leading. This is a firm range—not Yoann's personal promise—and the firm also makes selective later-stage investments.

Yoann brings high-frequency trading, hedge-fund and family-office experience to a proprietary-capital venture platform built around Wintermute's market infrastructure. The firm backs category-defining financial and enterprise technologies across the crypto value chain where its trading, liquidity, governance, integration and treasury expertise can materially accelerate long-term adoption.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Kindle Van Linge

Principal

78%

Craft Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Her disclosed Craft work spans venture and growth investments, including Series A, Series B, and growth-stage companies; public financing totals are not her individual allocation authority.

Kindle invests in technically differentiated AI, defense, and enterprise software that turns expert knowledge or hard engineering into a high-trust operational system. Her published cases favor products that automate expensive, consequential workflows while improving quality: regulatory agents that encode rules, medical intelligence grounded in evidence, and autonomous or frontier systems with strategic importance. Her growth background adds attention to adoption, category position, and scalable economics.

Series ASeries BGrowth