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Hard Yaka

Founders Greg Kidd

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Total investments 104
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 94
Rounds per year 7.43
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 18
Key employees 5

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Payments
  • Blockchain
  • Finance
Summary

Hard Yaka is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Sausalito.

The current fund was established by Greg Kidd. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Hard Yaka, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Plug and Play, FundersClub. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are AltaIR Capital, Y Combinator, FundersClub. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by FundersClub, Union Square Ventures, 500 Startups.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Financial Services, Payments. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Coinbase, Marqeta, Kabbage. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Hard Yaka performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CFX Labs

Financial Services
Payments
Transaction Processing
$9M15 Nov 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Terminal 3

30 Apr 2023 -

Universal Ledger

Blockchain
FinTech
Payments
Service Industry
$10M19 Apr 2023 Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Arf

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$13M26 Oct 2022 Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Standard C

Banking
Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Payments
$4M14 Oct 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Unstoppable Domains

Blockchain
Domain Registrar
Internet
$65M27 Jul 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Indicio.tech

$3M25 Apr 2022 -

Unifimoney

Financial Services
FinTech
$10M06 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Standard C

Banking
Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Payments
$2M15 Dec 2021 San Francisco, California, United States
News
AnChain.AI Raises $10M in Funding

– AnChain.AI is a San Francisco CA-based blockchain security company.
– Company raised $10M in funding.
– The round was led by SIG Asia Investments with participation from Fin VC, Nima Capital, Hard Yaka and Amino Capital.
– The new investment will be aimed at accelerating product development and recruitment across research and development, engineering, customer success and sales.

Blockdaemon Raises $28 Million In Series A Funding To Help Institutions Quickly and Securely Scale Blockchain Infrastructure

– Blockdaemon closed a $28m Series A funding round.
– The round was led by Greenspring Associates with participation from Goldman Sachs, BlockFi, Warburg Serres, Uphold, Voyager Digital Ltd., Illuminate Financial, and Hard Yaka.
– Existing seed round investors Boldstart Ventures, Coinfund, Kenetic, CoinShares, Borderless Capital, Blockchain.com Ventures, Lerer Hippeau and Heavybit increased their investments.
– Blockdaemon is the foundational layer to the blockchain industry, enabling participants to stake and deploy nodes with institutional-grade security, scalability and reliability.
– Blockdaemon offers access to new financial infrastructure for a variety of market participants, from large financial institutions, exchanges and custodians to small, agile crypto native firms and developers.

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Total investments 104
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 7.43
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 18
Group Appearance index 0.62

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CFX Labs

Financial Services
Payments
Transaction Processing
$9M15 Nov 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Terminal 3

30 Apr 2023 -

Universal Ledger

Blockchain
FinTech
Payments
Service Industry
$10M19 Apr 2023 Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Arf

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$13M26 Oct 2022 Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Standard C

Banking
Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Payments
$4M14 Oct 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Unstoppable Domains

Blockchain
Domain Registrar
Internet
$65M27 Jul 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Indicio.tech

$3M25 Apr 2022 -

Unifimoney

Financial Services
FinTech
$10M06 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Standard C

Banking
Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Payments
$2M15 Dec 2021 San Francisco, California, United States
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