Hard Yaka

Hard Yaka is an investment firm based in Crystal Bay, Nevada, founded in 2010. It pursues technology investments across private equity and venture capital, including buyouts and distressed opportunities, and it frequently seeks majority stakes. The firm focuses on digital transformation infrastructure, including portable identity, payments, marketplaces, and regtech, and also backs early-stage opportunities in exchange space startups, targeting verticals within exchange markets as well as horizontals such as messaging and payments across exchange sectors.

Pep Gomez

Partner

Jun Hiraga

Managing Partner

Kevin Leiske JD

Partner

Margaret Slemmer

Investor

Katie Sullivan

Partner

Past deals in Mobile

Goin

Series A in 2025
Goin is a mobile application that enhances users' financial health by layering innovative saving, investing, and smart-shopping tools onto traditional banking services.

Movii

Series C in 2022
Founded in Bogotá in 2017, Movii is a fintech company dedicated to providing financial services to the unbanked population. Through its digital payment application and rechargeable debit card, Movii enables users to manage their money safely, pay bills, transfer funds, and purchase goods online or via mobile devices.

Aeldra

Series A in 2022
Aeldra is a financial services company that provides a comprehensive banking platform tailored for residents outside the United States, particularly focusing on individuals from India. The company facilitates the opening of savings and current bank accounts with U.S. banks, allowing customers to obtain debit cards for both personal and corporate use. Aeldra's services encompass money transfers, bill payments, and other banking transactions, ensuring that users can perform overseas banking activities swiftly, securely, and conveniently. By specializing in mobile banking, remittance, and foreign exchange, Aeldra aims to bridge the gap between international customers and the U.S. banking system.

Movii

Series B in 2021
Founded in Bogotá in 2017, Movii is a fintech company dedicated to providing financial services to the unbanked population. Through its digital payment application and rechargeable debit card, Movii enables users to manage their money safely, pay bills, transfer funds, and purchase goods online or via mobile devices.

Goin

Seed Round in 2021
Goin is a mobile application that enhances users' financial health by layering innovative saving, investing, and smart-shopping tools onto traditional banking services.

Aeldra

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Aeldra is a financial services company that provides a comprehensive banking platform tailored for residents outside the United States, particularly focusing on individuals from India. The company facilitates the opening of savings and current bank accounts with U.S. banks, allowing customers to obtain debit cards for both personal and corporate use. Aeldra's services encompass money transfers, bill payments, and other banking transactions, ensuring that users can perform overseas banking activities swiftly, securely, and conveniently. By specializing in mobile banking, remittance, and foreign exchange, Aeldra aims to bridge the gap between international customers and the U.S. banking system.

Puma Browser

Seed Round in 2020
Puma is a mobile browser focused on the Web3 ecosystem. It offers native support for IPFS, HNS, and ENS, enabling secure, private browsing with seamless payments via Coil and ILP for creators and developers.

EMQ

Series B in 2020
EMQ Limited is a financial technology company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, with additional offices in Taiwan and China. The company focuses on developing a comprehensive financial network across Asia, primarily targeting remittance services. EMQ partners with financial institutions and strategic partners in various countries, including Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, to facilitate and settle cross-border remittances. The company operates a settlement network designed to offer affordable, efficient, and transparent financial services, ensuring that users can conduct cross-border transactions in a streamlined and secure manner. EMQ holds licenses from relevant authorities in Hong Kong and Indonesia, which allows it to operate as a Money Service Operator and Fund Transfer Operator, respectively.

Goin

Venture Round in 2020
Goin is a mobile application that enhances users' financial health by layering innovative saving, investing, and smart-shopping tools onto traditional banking services.

Yoyo Wallet

Series C in 2018
Yoyo Wallet, established in 2013 and headquartered in London, specializes in mobile payment solutions. It offers a user-friendly app enabling customers to make in-store purchases using their smartphones, processing over 150,000 monthly transactions. The platform combines payment and loyalty features, providing retailers with a marketing tool for in-store customer engagement and targeted rewards based on purchase history. Yoyo Wallet serves retailers, universities, and corporate locations across the United Kingdom.

Nodle

Seed Round in 2018
Nodle operates a decentralized network that connects mobile phones and IoT devices, enabling various applications such as asset tracking, event attendance verification, and media content certification. It leverages the NODL token for crypto payments and ensures user privacy.

BallotReady

Seed Round in 2018
BallotReady is an online, non-partisan voter guide for local elections that aggregates content from candidate websites, League of Women Voters questionnaires, news articles, campaign finance records, and legislative roll calls to provide nonpartisan background information on every candidate and referendum on a voter's ballot. The platform enables users to compare all candidates on their ballot, obtain essential information needed in the voting booth, and save selected candidates to a mobile device for offline review. It supports civic engagement by offering data services and digital tools that help voters understand their entire ballot and make informed choices.

Hal-Cash

Seed Round in 2018
Hal-Cash is a company that has developed a digital wallet platform designed to facilitate an efficient global payment system. Its innovative technology allows users to withdraw money from ATMs using their mobile phones, streamlining the cash withdrawal process. Additionally, Hal-Cash supports an electronic payment system that enables both national and international money transfers through a wide network of affiliated entities across various countries. This capability enhances the global remittance market by providing a more affordable and convenient method for individuals to send and receive money. Overall, Hal-Cash aims to improve the accessibility and efficiency of financial transactions for its users.

Empyr

Venture Round in 2018
Empyr, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that operates an online-to-offline advertisement platform designed to connect digital engagement with real-world purchases. Established in 2011, Empyr specializes in card-linked offers, enabling national brands and digital publishers to track online advertisements that lead to offline sales. By integrating directly with major credit card associations, Empyr allows consumers to earn cashback at offline merchants simply by using their debit or credit cards. This platform provides a seamless experience for users while offering publishers the ability to generate revenue from each purchase and allowing merchants to link offline sales to specific online marketing efforts. Empyr collaborates with a diverse range of partners, including notable names in technology, banking, and hospitality, thereby tapping into the significant potential of the $3 trillion offline commerce market driven by online activity. The company has raised $35 million through its parent organization, Mogl, and currently employs 60 individuals.

Payswiff

Seed Round in 2015
Payswiff is a prominent Indian fintech company offering comprehensive electronic payment solutions to enterprises, SMEs, banks, and mobile service operators across 12 countries, including regions in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company initially launched Paynear ONE, an omni-channel payment solution that facilitates in-store, online, and mobile transactions through various modes such as credit cards, debit cards, net banking, e-wallets, and UPI. In 2017, Payswiff expanded by acquiring Goswiff International and rebranding itself, while also becoming a licensed GST Suvidha Provider, offering streamlined tax filing services through its TaxnGo application. The company’s innovative approaches have supported the Indian government's push for a digital economy and have earned it recognition through multiple industry awards. With partnerships with over 50 banks globally and a presence in 11 countries, Payswiff continues to enhance payment processing for small and medium businesses, making transactions seamless and efficient.

Betable

Series A in 2015
Founded in London in 2008, Betable enables game developers to integrate real-money gambling into their mobile and social games legally and securely. It offers platforms for processing transactions, ensuring compliance, and providing player protection services.

37coins

Venture Round in 2014
37coins is a bitcoin startup based in Sunnyvale, California, focused on providing SMS bitcoin wallet services to unbanked and underserved populations in developing economies who lack Internet access. By enabling individuals to send and receive money via SMS, 37coins aims to enhance financial inclusion globally. The company has launched its services and is currently part of the Plug and Play Tech Center's bitcoin accelerator program. It also allows users with Internet access to sign up as gateway operators, facilitating transactions and earning fees in the process. With growing partnerships in regions such as Singapore and the Philippines, 37coins strives to make bitcoin more accessible through its user-friendly SMS technology.

Mines

Seed Round in 2014
Mines.io, Inc. is a financial analytics company that operates a platform focused on mobile data. Its flagship product, Mteka, is an in-memory analytics solution capable of processing vast amounts of mobile carrier data rapidly, allowing for the creation and deployment of predictive models in real time. The company's services are designed to assist mobile operators in monetizing their data while enabling financial institutions to expand their customer reach. Among its offerings are a credit scoring service that evaluates consumer credit risk based on mobile behavior, a fraud detection system that identifies suspicious activities in real time, and behavior modeling tools that enhance customer identity verification. Additionally, the company employs risk analysis and machine learning techniques to help insurance providers tailor premiums based on consumer risk profiles. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Mines.io aims to leverage mobile data to improve financial services and consumer access to credit.

chat.center

Seed Round in 2014
Chat Center is the best way to help customers or friends connect with you for Chat. Once you install the app you can claim a Chat Name. This name can be expressed as a URL. For example, the Chat Name for Chat Center Customer Care is http://chatcenter.me/cc. Anybody who clicks on the name is instantly in a chat with you. Because the name is a URL it can be shared anywhere. -- Businesses can put it on a web site to enable "Click to Chat" for customers. -- It can be placed in an email signature. -- Social Network members can place it in their profile to enable "Click to Chat" from the social network to the name owner. This works great on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or Ello for example. -- Including it in blog posts or other web pages, -- Share it in Tweets or Instagram messages, -- Or just share it with customers, friends and family privately. Our vision is that every business and individual on earth can have a Chat Name that links to their iPhone, allowing each of us to be connected to each other through a simple name. This approach means that those trying to chat with you do not need to have the Chat Center App. All they need is the name or a link. Most Names are Free. However we do have Premium Names for $1.99 a month or $19.99 annually. These are short names and familiar names, including Brands and Trademarks, Places, Common Names. But we have gone one step further. We have made every mobile number on earth a Chat Address for outbound messaging. Chat Center imports your contacts from your address book into the app. From the very start, and with no effort, you can start a chat with any of your contacts for whom you already have a mobile number. They will reply to you right in chat center. This is Free outbound messaging. No SMS bills. By installing Chat Center on your iPhone or iPad you will get alerts and notifications for all inbound chats. Of course you can choose to answer or block any chat request.

Coin

Venture Round in 2013
Coin is a San Francisco-based company established in 2012 that specializes in smart payment solutions. It offers Coin 2.0, an electronic device designed to consolidate multiple debit, credit, gift, loyalty, and membership cards into a single, portable unit. This device facilitates magnetic stripe and NFC tap-to-pay transactions, streamlining the payment process for users. Coin's innovative platform also features a Developer Program that collaborates with major payment networks to enable the integration of secure payment functionalities into wearable technology, such as fitness trackers, smartwatches, and jewelry. By providing a wallet-sized card that securely stores users' card information and includes alerts for device separation from smartphones, Coin enhances the convenience and security of digital payments.

Game Play Network

Seed Round in 2012
Game Play Network develops mobile gambling platforms that enable online horse race wagering under state licenses. The platform delivers pari-mutuel horse racing experiences via on-demand mobile games, allowing users to wager on races and win cash legally. Powered by patented technology and backed by a comprehensive patent library, the platform positions the company to extend brands to online and land-based players across 22 U.S. states, reflecting a broad iGaming footprint.

MightyText

Venture Round in 2012
MightyText is a technology company based in the Bay Area, California, founded by a team with experience from notable firms such as Google, Zynga, and Cisco. The company operates a messaging application that allows users to send and receive SMS and MMS messages as well as phone calls from their computers or tablets. By utilizing a user’s phone number, MightyText ensures that messages remain synchronized with the phone's SMS inbox, helping individuals manage their communications more efficiently and avoid missing important notifications. The platform leverages the capabilities of the Android operating system to enhance user experience and accessibility for consumers worldwide.

Visible Market

Seed Round in 2012
Visible Market Inc. is a financial data visualization platform that offers financial information products for mobile devices. The company was formerly known as Related Market LLC. Visible Market Inc. was launched in 2010 and is based in New York, United States.

Mobidigger

Venture Round in 2012
MobiDigger is a company founded in 2008 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, specializing in social and platform software. It focuses on enhancing user privacy and identity protection by allowing individuals to connect with others while using a nickname for their mobile phone and email address. This innovative approach aims to safeguard personal information in a digital landscape increasingly concerned with privacy issues.
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