Hard Yaka
VC Fund
Crystal Bay, United States
Hard Yaka is a VC fund in Crystal Bay focused on FinTech and Financial Services. 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.
- Total investments:
- 163
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Hard Yaka invests in
Stages Hard Yaka invests in
Countries Hard Yaka invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $150k–$8M
- Series A
- $2.7M–$37M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 57 (35%)
- Financial Services 44 (27%)
- Blockchain 29 (18%)
- Payments 27 (17%)
- Software 25 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 79 (48%)
- Series A 20 (12%)
- Funding Round 19 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 9 (6%)
- Series B 8 (5%)
Country
- United States 104 (64%)
- United Kingdom 6 (4%)
- Spain 4 (2%)
- Mexico 4 (2%)
- France 3 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Izzet Can Akkus
Sr. Director of Strategy
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Sr. Director of Strategy | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jun Hiraga
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Margaret Slemmer
Partner, Co-Chief Operating Officer
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Partner, Co-Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Meg Nakamura
Investment Partner
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Investment Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Robert Kidd
Co-Founder, Partner; Co-Founder, Partner
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Co-Founder, Partner; Co-Founder, Partner | Total investments: 91 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal 3 is a data storage and access platform that makes Web3 user data freely composable while remaining private and secure. | $8M / Seed / Apr 29, 2025 | ||
| Rain provides infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments and financial products for businesses. The company builds APIs and tools that let partners create and manage digital wallets, embed stablecoin accounts, and issue payment cards that connect blockchain settlement with traditional payment networks like Visa. Its platform supports money-inand money-out flows, fiat-to-stablecoin conversion, and compliance features so enterprises and financial platforms can integrate digital money use cases directly into their products. Rain’s technology is modular, enabling firms to pick components such as card issuance, wallet services, and cross-border payouts based on their needs. | $24.5M / Series A / Mar 24, 2025 | ||
| Goin is a Barcelona-based fintech platform founded in 2017 that provides a unified money optimization ecosystem combining automated savings, investments, digital assets, and rewards. The app enables users to aggregate multiple bank accounts via PSD2, centralizing financial data and automating decisions through its AI engine, gaIA. Goin integratesfinancial automation, portfolio tools, and cash-back incentives in a single interface used primarily by young European consumers. The company operates in a regulated environment, is registered with the Bank of Spain as a crypto service provider, and has expanded across Southern Europe. In 2025, Goin launched KernelPay, its B2B Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) infrastructure for payments, accounts, and wallet management. | Series A / Feb 05, 2025 | ||
| Goin is a Barcelona-based fintech platform founded in 2017 that provides a unified money optimization ecosystem combining automated savings, investments, digital assets, and rewards. The app enables users to aggregate multiple bank accounts via PSD2, centralizing financial data and automating decisions through its AI engine, gaIA. Goin integratesfinancial automation, portfolio tools, and cash-back incentives in a single interface used primarily by young European consumers. The company operates in a regulated environment, is registered with the Bank of Spain as a crypto service provider, and has expanded across Southern Europe. In 2025, Goin launched KernelPay, its B2B Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) infrastructure for payments, accounts, and wallet management. | $852K / Feb 05, 2025 | ||
| Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently. | $7.3M / Series A / Oct 13, 2024 | ||
| Huma is an Income backed DeFi. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 11, 2024 | ||
| CFX Labs Inc. operates in the banking industry, focusing on revolutionizing global payment processing. The company envisions a world where money can move across borders with ease, accessibility, and security. CFX Labs Inc. is known for its product, MoveMoney.com, which is a significant offering in the fintech space. The company operates in aheavily regulated industry, adhering to strict laws and regulations governing financial transactions. CFX Labs Inc. is a privately held entity with a small team of dedicated professionals. | $9.5M / Seed / Nov 15, 2023 | ||
| Terminal 3 is a data storage and access platform that makes Web3 user data freely composable while remaining private and secure. | Pre-Seed / Apr 30, 2023 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Arf, a VISA Innovation Program company, is a global #payment network enabling instant and fully compliant fiat-to-fiat #cross-border payments by leveraging regulated stablecoins for #financial institutions, especially EMIs, PIs, MSBs, ewallets, neobanks and digital #remittance companies. | $13M / Seed / Oct 26, 2022 | ||
| See all 163 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Hard Yaka invest in?
Hard Yaka invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 163 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Hard Yaka invest in?
Hard Yaka typically joins rounds of $150k–$8M at Seed and $2.7M–$37M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Hard Yaka's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Hard Yaka took part in.
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Who are the partners at Hard Yaka?
The team at Hard Yaka includes Izzet Can Akkus (Sr. Director of Strategy), Jun Hiraga (Partner) and Margaret Slemmer (Partner, Co-Chief Operating Officer), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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