Hard Yaka is a strategic venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Greg Kidd, focused on universal access to fundamental digital services including payments, digital identity, banking, and communications. The firm has funded over 250 companies with notable investments in Ripple, Coinbase, and other fintech and crypto companies.
Their most common stage is seed (50% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $12.7M (across 28 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
25
Fund Size
$3B
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
0
Team
CL
Chris Lewis
Partner
JH
Jun Hiraga
Partner
MS
Margaret Slemmer
Partner
MN
Meg Nakamura
Investment Partner
SO
Samuel Ostler
Investment Manager
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
32 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Terminal 3 | Seed | $8M | Apr 2025 |
| Terminal 3 | Seed | $8M | Jan 2025 |
| CCFX Labs | Seed | $9.5M | Nov 2023 |
 Universal Ledger | Unknown | $10M | Jan 2023 |
 Arf | Seed | $13M | Oct 2022 |
| AArf One | Seed | $13M | Oct 2022 |
| UUNUM ID | Seed | $2M | Jul 2022 |
 Unifimoney | Seed | $10M | Apr 2022 |
 Indicio | Seed | $3.5M | Jan 2022 |
| SStandardC | Seed | $4.8M | Jan 2022 |
| SStandardC | Series A | $4.8M | Jan 2022 |
 AnChain.AI | Series A | $10M | Sep 2021 |
| AAvanti Financial Group | Series A | $37M | Mar 2021 |
 TransferGo | Series C | $50M | Jan 2021 |
 MOVii | Series B | $15M | Jan 2021 |
| SStandardC | Seed | $2M | Jan 2021 |
 Figment | Series B | $50M | Jan 2021 |
 EMQ | Series B | $20M | Jul 2020 |
 Goin | Series A | — | Jan 2020 |
| TransferGo | Seed | $2.5M | Jan 2020 |
| AAmun | Seed | $4M | Mar 2019 |
| AAmun | Unknown | — | Jan 2019 |
 Cogni | Seed | $5.4M | Jan 2018 |
 Import.io | Seed | $3M | Sep 2014 |
 Olyn | Unknown | $2.8M | — |
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Top Co-Investors
500 Global5 shared
Endeavor4 shared
Coinbase Ventures3 shared
e2vc2 shared
Circle Ventures2 shared
Signum Capital2 shared
NGC Ventures2 shared
Plug and Play Tech Center2 shared
Oriza Ventures2 shared
AltaIR Capital2 shared
Global Millennial Capital2 shared
Slow Ventures2 shared
1843 Capital2 shared
Lemniscap2 shared
HashKey Capital2 shared
Morgan Creek Capital Management2 shared
ECMC Group2 shared
Boost VC2 shared
ETFS Capital2 shared
Last updated: 7 October 2026