Hard Yaka

Hard Yaka, Inc. is a private equity firm founded in 2010 and headquartered in Crystal Bay, Nevada. The firm specializes in buyout and distressed investments, focusing on early-stage opportunities in sectors related to digital transformation. Hard Yaka targets investments in portable identity, payments, marketplaces, and regulatory technology companies, often seeking to acquire majority stakes. Additionally, the firm is interested in exchange space startups, whether they operate within specific market verticals or provide horizontal services such as messaging and payments across various exchange sectors.

Jun Hiraga

Partner

Past deals in Personal Finance

Unifimoney

Seed Round in 2022
Unifimoney is a digital wealth management platform tailored for community banks and credit unions, offering a comprehensive solution for money management. The platform supports over 70 cryptocurrencies, as well as the passive and active investment of more than 10,000 equities, ETFs, and precious metals. By integrating seamlessly with existing digital banking infrastructures, including Q2 and Jack Henry Banno, Unifimoney provides a low-cost and efficient option for financial institutions to enhance their service offerings. Its software simplifies everyday money management and helps maximize passive income, allowing customers to manage their wealth effectively for long-term growth through a single app that encompasses investing, trading, insurance, and credit services.

Aeldra

Series A in 2022
Aeldra is the first truly global is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, cards, remittance, and forex in the U.S. for residents outside the U.S.

ZELF

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ZELF is a neobank fintech company that aims to make financial services accessible to younger generations globally. Operating in both the EU and the US, ZELF allows users to access banking services through popular social messaging platforms, including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Discord, Telegram, and Viber. The company focuses on providing a seamless money-transfer platform that supports artificial intelligence-powered voice control, enabling users to send and receive money, create invoices, and manage reminders for unpaid transactions easily. In June 2022, ZELF launched its "Bank of the Metaverse" campaign, integrating traditional fiat currency with game loot and NFTs, further enhancing its innovative banking offerings.

Aeldra

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Aeldra is the first truly global is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, cards, remittance, and forex in the U.S. for residents outside the U.S.

Goin

Venture Round in 2020
Goin is a mobile app that helps users improve their financial health by establishing a layer on top of a user's traditional bank and providing a set of innovative and custom saving, investing and smart-shopping tools.

Prepaid2Cash

Venture Round in 2019
Prepaid2Cash is a Birmingham, AL based financial technology company that enables the redemption of network branded (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, Discover) prepaid cards, commonly referred to as open-loop prepaid cards. The Company’s web-based service (www.prepaid2cash.com) allows users to receive payment by direct deposit or mailed check. For more information on Prepaid2Cash, visit http://www.prepaid2cash.com. Additionally, for media inquiries contact info(at)prepaid2cash.com.

Cuenca

Seed Round in 2018
Cuenca is a Mexican finance company that offers online banking services. The company's application provides savings by allowing interest rates and offers loan facilities, enabling users to securely deposit or borrow money digitally and pay it back according to their convenience.

Trim

Series A in 2018
Trim is a financial health company that empowers customers across the United States to improve their financial lives. Trim's mission is to make Americans financially healthy at scale. Our customers benefit from automated savings, decreased bills and bank fees negotiated by Trim, canceled subscriptions, and spending analysis and recommendations. We've saved our users more than $60M and we’re continuing to grow and add features to improve financial health. Our team has previous experience at organizations like Cisco, Eventbrite, Goldman Sachs, Google, LearnVest, Patreon, Rackspace, and Stripe. Trim is backed by venture investors including Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), OCA Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Version One Ventures, and Core Innovation Capital. Come work with us to create the future of personal finance.

Finerio

Seed Round in 2017
Finerio is an automated personal finance platform based in Mexico that offers users a free and efficient way to manage their finances. The platform allows individuals to link their debit and credit accounts from major Mexican banks, providing insights for effective financial planning and saving. Finerio focuses on personal finance management by enabling users to create custom budgets, monitor and track expenditures, and analyze their consumption patterns. Through its open finance and data analysis capabilities, Finerio empowers users to gain control over their financial information, ultimately helping them plan their expenses and enhance their savings.

Earny

Seed Round in 2016
Earny is your personal assistant who automatically gets you money back on almost every item you buy. Earny finds better prices on items you’ve bought and gets you back the difference. His mission is to give you the confidence to purchase wherever and whenever you want, knowing you will never overpay for an item.

Upgrade

Series A in 2016
Upgrade is a neobank that offers credit to mainstream consumers through cards and personal loans, together with free credit monitoring and education tools that help consumers understand and manage their finances. Upgrade Card provides an innovative credit card that brings the low cost and responsible credit of installment lending to millions of retail locations in the U.S., while Upgrade Account is a mobile banking product offered to mainstream consumers.

Trim

Seed Round in 2015
Trim is a financial health company that empowers customers across the United States to improve their financial lives. Trim's mission is to make Americans financially healthy at scale. Our customers benefit from automated savings, decreased bills and bank fees negotiated by Trim, canceled subscriptions, and spending analysis and recommendations. We've saved our users more than $60M and we’re continuing to grow and add features to improve financial health. Our team has previous experience at organizations like Cisco, Eventbrite, Goldman Sachs, Google, LearnVest, Patreon, Rackspace, and Stripe. Trim is backed by venture investors including Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), OCA Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Version One Ventures, and Core Innovation Capital. Come work with us to create the future of personal finance.

MONI

Seed Round in 2015
MONI Nordic Oy, based in Helsinki, Finland, is a company that specializes in providing prepaid MasterCards to facilitate both online and offline payments. Founded in 2013, MONI aims to create accessible mobile personal banking tools that allow users to manage their financial activities, such as making purchases, sending and receiving money, obtaining credit, and withdrawing cash. The company develops a virtual banking platform that enables users to access essential financial services from any mobile device, thus bridging traditional banking with modern technologies like cryptocurrencies. By reducing system complexity and eliminating intermediaries, MONI's technology aims to lower costs and decrease fraud, thereby enhancing the overall banking experience for individuals worldwide.

DailyPay

Seed Round in 2015
DailyPay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry's leading earned wage access solution, DailyPay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America's top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace. DailyPay is headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit www.dailypay.com/press.

Kueski

Seed Round in 2014
Kueski is one of the largest buy now, pay later (BNPL) and online consumer lending companies in Latin America, providing financial services to consumers and connecting the Mexican economy through its innovative product ecosystem. This ecosystem consists of Kueski Pay, the company's BNPL product available online and in-store, and Kueski Cash, its personal loans product. Founded in 2012 with the mission of making the financial lives of people in Mexico easier, Kueski leverages technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data to expand access to traditional financial products and services. To date Kueski has raised over $300 million in equity and debt financing and, among its growing list of accolades, was recently named to CB Insights' Fintech 250 List.
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