Greg Kidd
Co-Founder, Partner; Co-Founder, Partner @ Hard Yaka
San Francisco, United States
Greg Kidd is a seed investor at Hard Yaka in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Mobile. Greg Kidd is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Know Labs.Greg is a co-founder and partner of Hard Yaka. As an investor, Greg provided first money at Twitter, Square, Coinbase, Robinhood, and Solana. Other early investments include Ripple, Uphold, and Brave.After working at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton,Greg took his first company public on the NASDAQ with $250 million in revenue and 3,200 staff globally. He later served in the payments division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and as a director at the financial regulatory consulting firm Promontory Financial Group. Greg also served as Chief Risk Officer at Andreesen Horowitz and Google Ventures backed startup Ripple. Greg graduated from Brown University and earned an MBA from Yale University and an MPA in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School.
- Total investments:
- 91
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Greg Kidd invests in
Stages Greg Kidd invests in
Countries Greg Kidd invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $185k–$8M
- Series A
- $2.7M–$9.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 25 (27%)
- Mobile 16 (18%)
- Payments 15 (16%)
- Software 15 (16%)
- Financial Services 14 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 41 (45%)
- Funding Round 20 (22%)
- Series A 7 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (5%)
- Angel 3 (3%)
Country
- United States 55 (60%)
- Spain 4 (4%)
- United Kingdom 4 (4%)
- Singapore 2 (2%)
- India 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Universal Ledger provides digital asset and payment infrastructure on an identity and compliance-first blockchain. It is the first blockchain platform to apply digital identity to a fully compliant infrastructure, with the ability to control digital assets. | $10M / Seed / Apr 19, 2023 | ||
| Cashmere creates a safer crypto wallet that secures treasury. It transfers funds using the multi-signature signing feature, which combines the flexibility of hot wallets with the storage security of cold wallets. Cashmere focuses on assisting people in securely storing their cryptocurrency. It will safeguard cryptocurrencies even if hot walletssuch as Slope and Phantom are compromised. | $3M / Seed / Aug 08, 2022 | ||
| Meld empowers developers to build a Multi Vendor Fintech stack. With a few lines of code, developers gain access to a wide range of financial integrations across multiple domains. Meld helps you lower your overall 3rd party vendor costs, increase coverage and conversion rates, and save you time by launching integrations across markets faster. Weprovide performance analytics for every provider you integrate with - putting you back in control of your fintech stack. | $8M / Seed / May 09, 2022 | ||
| Indicio provides companies and markets the ability to create, develop, and launch new Trusted Data Ecosystems, marketplaces, and business models for the exchange of high value information and data assets. Specializing in financial, healthcare, and travel markets, Indicio provides customers with technology and a decentralized network to issue, hold,and verify data contained in encrypted digital credentials. With Indicio’s privacy-preserving software, companies can confirm data authenticity repeatedly and efficiently from its source without the expense or risk of direct integrations—resulting in a boost to their bottom-line profit and information privacy reputation. | $3.5M / Seed / Apr 25, 2022 | ||
| Mask Network build the bridge between Web 2.0 (Platforms such as Twitter) and Web 3.0 - By letting users send encrypted messages to friends, send and receive cryptocurrency and share files, and interact with DApps, all on a decentralized level. Mask Network offers the ability to fund Gitcoin grant campaigns directly from Twitter, as well as plansto offer p2p payments and decentralized storage functionality. It is a decentralized portal that also allows users to use DApps like crypto payments, decentralized finance, decentralized storage, e-commerce (digital goods/NFTs) and decentralized organizations (DAO) over the top of existing social networks without migrating, creating what is referred to as a decentralized Applet (DApplet) ecosystem. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 14, 2022 | ||
| Trace Labs Ltd. is a Hong Kong-based company with a mission to facilitate the implementation of blockchain technology to global supply chains and the corporate environment. It is a core technology builder of the open source OriginTrail protocol for inter-organizational data exchange. With the Network Operating System (nOS) powered by OriginTrail,Trace Labs is presenting user communities of the OriginTrail protocol with a bundle of enterprise applications, focusing on quick implementation, great user experience, and interoperability with legacy systems. | Seed / Aug 31, 2021 | ||
| Puma is a mobile browser and wallet for the Web3 ecosystem. Private by design. Today, we enable native IPFS, HNS & ENS support and seamless payments for creators, app & game developers via Coil and ILP. Long Term, our goal is to give 1b people access to the peer-to-peer and ownership based economy. | Seed / Jul 25, 2021 | ||
| Tribe is a global blockchain ecosystem builder that connects startups and tech talents with leading opportunities. By working closely with organizations including blockchain protocols, corporates, governments, startups, and developer communities, it strives to power the next wave of talents and companies' leap from Web2 to Web3. Some ofTribe's official partners include Enterprise Singapore, Pfizer, HSBC, Infineon Technologies, IMDA, BMW Group Asia, ConsenSys, IBM, Intel, Nielsen, PwC, R3, and Temasek amongst others. For more information, please visit https://tribex.co/ | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 14, 2021 | ||
| Zolve is a neo-banking platform that provides financial products to consumers. Its services offers include deposit accounts, prepaid cards, money transfers, bill payments, and cross-border transactions. It also provides tools for monitoring transactions and expense and budget management. It was launched in 2020 and is based in Bangalore, India. | $15M / Seed / Feb 17, 2021 | ||
| Aeldra is the first truly global is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, cards, remittance, and forex in the U.S. for residents outside the U.S. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Hard Yaka
Hard Yaka makes early round investments in exchange space startups. Candidates are either verticals in particular categories of exchange markets or horizontals providing services (i.e. messaging or payments) across exchange sectors.
Hard Yaka Contacts
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Greg Kidd
Co-Founder, Partner; Co-Founder, Partner
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Izzet Can Akkus
Sr. Director of Strategy
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Jun Hiraga
Partner
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Margaret Slemmer
Partner, Co-Chief Operating Officer
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Meg Nakamura
Investment Partner
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FAQ
What does Greg Kidd invest in?
Greg Kidd invests primarily in FinTech, Mobile and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 91 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Greg Kidd's check size?
Greg Kidd typically joins rounds of $185k–$8M at Seed and $2.7M–$9.5M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Greg Kidd participates in.
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When did Greg Kidd last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Greg Kidd closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 91 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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