About Diogo Mónica
General Partner at Haun Ventures. Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anchorage Digital. Chairman of the NEAR Foundation. Director at Erebor.
This page is the citation hub for Diogo Mónica (also written Diogo Monica). Current roles, prior work, and degrees live here. Longer press copy and the media kit stay on theblog about page.
Current roles
- General Partner, Haun Ventures
- Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Anchorage Digital— still in that role. He did not leave Anchorage. He is not Anchorage president. Anchorage Digital is the first federally chartered crypto-native bank, still operating at scale, still waiting on Fed rails.
- Chairman, NEAR Foundation
- Director, Erebor(from 2025)
Prior work
Before Haun Ventures and Anchorage Digital, he led security at Docker and platform security at Square.
Education
Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. Short form: BSc Telecommunications and Informatics, MSc Communication Networks, PhD Computer Science.
- 2004–2007 BSc, Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon.
- 2007–2009 MSc, Communication Networks Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon.
- 2009–2015 PhD, Computer Science (network security), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon.