Hard Yaka is a venture capital firm focused on digital identity, payments, marketplaces, and digital currencies, founded by Greg Kidd. Hard Yaka's Twitter Score is 2.5 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #300,591 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Hard Yaka was founded by Greg Kidd, who serves as managing member of Hard Yaka Ventures GP, the sole general partner of Hard Yaka Ventures LP. The firm's stated investment focus spans portable identity, payments, and marketplaces, with particular interest in decentralized identifiers, verifiable credentials, tokenized money, blockchain, messaging, and wallets. Its stated mission centers on enabling universal access to services across payments, communications, and digital identity.
Hard Yaka filed a Form D notice of an exempt securities offering with the SEC in May 2022. In November 2022, co-founder Greg Kidd told Fortune that the firm held a small equity position in FTX and had indirect exposure through portfolio companies at the time FTX-related entities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with less than 2% of assets under management estimated to be at risk. In March 2025, Hard Yaka LLC and Greg Kidd filed a federal civil lawsuit against Hard Yaka Ventures GP, LLC, with claims characterized on the docket as diversity and breach of fiduciary duty; the filing represents a civil dispute and not a finding of liability.
Hard Yaka's portfolio includes Uphold, Unstoppable Domains, Wyre, Figment, Fluence, Mask Network mask.io, DoinGud D, D and Kava. Hard Yaka has 990 followers as of July 2026 on the platform and has published 502 posts. Hard Yaka has been mentioned by 12 accounts, with 24 total mentions.
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