Description
Hard Yaka is an investment firm founded by Greg Kidd, known for early investments in Twitter, Coinbase, and Square, focusing on nurturing startups in the web3 and blockchain ecosystem. It targets projects enhancing digital identity, payments, and compliance with a keen interest in initiatives that address real-world challenges using blockchain technology, aiming to mainstream digital assets and decentralized technologies. The firm goes beyond capital investment by providing strategic advice and leveraging its network to expedite its portfolio companies' growth. Hard Yaka has a core emphasis on portable identity, payments, marketplaces, and makes early-round investments particularly in exchange space startups and companies offering solutions across exchange sectors, including services like messaging or payments. This all-enables new business models or boosts the efficiency of existing blockchain and crypto ecosystems.
Hard Yaka is an investment firm founded by Greg Kidd, known for early investments in Twitter, Coinbase, and Square, focusing on nurturing startups in the web3 and blockchain ecosystem. It targets projects enhancing digital identity, payments, and compliance with a keen interest in initiatives that address real-world challenges using blockchain technology, aiming to mainstream digital assets and decentralized technologies. The firm goes beyond capital investment by providing strategic advice and leveraging its network to expedite its portfolio companies' growth. Hard Yaka has a core emphasis on portable identity, payments, marketplaces, and makes early-round investments particularly in exchange space startups and companies offering solutions across exchange sectors, including services like messaging or payments. This all-enables new business models or boosts the efficiency of existing blockchain and crypto ecosystems.
