# Hard Yaka

> Hard Yaka is a VC fund in Crystal Bay backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 130 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Crystal Bay, United States
- Total investments: 130
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last fund: Jan 2013
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hard-yaka/about/?viewAsMember=true
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/gregkidd
- Website: http://hardyaka.com/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $603k–$9.5M |
| Series A | $2.7M–$37M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 44 | 34% |
| Financial Services | 30 | 23% |
| Software | 24 | 18% |
| Blockchain | 24 | 18% |
| Payments | 20 | 15% |

140 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 52 | 40% |
| Funding Round | 24 | 18% |
| Series A | 19 | 15% |
| Series B | 8 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 5% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 86 | 66% |
| Spain | 4 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 3% |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 2% |
| France | 2 | 2% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Greg Kidd | Co-Founder, Partner; Co-Founder, Partner | 83 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-kidd |
| Izzet Can Akkus | Sr. Director of Strategy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/can-akkus |
| Jun Hiraga | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jun-hiraga |
| Margaret Slemmer | Partner, Co-Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/margaret-slemmer |
| Meg Nakamura | Investment Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meg-nakamura |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Terminal 3 | 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 | 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 |  | Mar 24, 2025 |  |
| Rain | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Finance | Huma is an Income backed DeFi. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| CFX Labs | 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 | 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 |  |
| Omnumi | 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 |  |

10 of 130 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ta-venture) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Revo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/revo-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [VEF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vef) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hard Yaka invest in?

Hard Yaka invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 130 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 Hard Yaka's check size?

Hard Yaka typically joins rounds of $603k–$9.5M at Seed and $2.7M–$37M 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 Hard Yaka participates in.

### How do I contact Hard Yaka?

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### Who are the partners at Hard Yaka?

The team at Hard Yaka includes Greg Kidd (Co-Founder, Partner; Co-Founder, Partner), Izzet Can Akkus (Sr. Director of Strategy) and Jun Hiraga (Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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