We are the venture capital arm of Hashed, backing builders from India and emerging markets shaping the onchain frontier. We invest at the earliest stages of a web3 startup's journey, using our expertise, experience, and network to amplify their growth and success. We drive web3 focused ecosystem and community expansion in these markets through our purpose-built initiatives. Our team is rooted in the cultural hubspots of web3 in emerging markets, spanning across Bangalore, Seoul, Singapore, Lagos and Dubai.
#Hashed, is Asia’s leading blockchain-focused firm, founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs and engineers. The Hashed portfolio of investments includes over 250 web3 startups globally, and with its teams based in Seoul, Silicon Valley, and Singapore. Hashed saw the unique potential for blockchain to reshape society and systems through the fabric of the internet by empowering individuals & institutions with decentralized, permissionless, programmable and open-source technology.
As a closely integrated unit of Hashed paired with our formidable talent & ecosystem base in India, we are equipped with a unique strategic advantage enabling us to offer unparalleled access, expertise and experience to our stakeholders. We create a powerful multiplier effect through our relationship with Hashed - one of the pioneering investment firms in the blockchain space and a gateway to the South Korean and broader Asian web3 markets, and through our focus on India - Indian founder focused investments and strategic initiatives to bridge the global and India native web3 ecosystems.
Our Thesis
Hashed was an early adopter of the decentralization thesis
Hashed's mission is to unlock and accelerate the mainstream adoption of blockchain by holistically enabling and supporting each generation of blockchain entrepreneurs and innovators worldwide. To support this mission, Hashed is not merely a capital allocator; it operates as researchers and contributors to the onchain infrastructure and economy, by leveraging it’s platform and network of projects and people to drive this transformation globally. As blockchain technology matured and became more secure and scalable, Hashed envisioned that a key frontier to unlock onchain innovation and adoption - with outsized & transformative potential - is emerging markets, particularly India.
Hashed Emergent was established in 2021 as the realization of this shared vision and partnership between Hashed and Tak Lee, who brings his extensive experience in investing and building in India to lead Hashed Emergent. We share the same DNA as Hashed, with a thesis focused on enabling and backing builders originating from India and emerging markets at the earliest stages, building the next generation of onchain companies and protocols. We similarly follow a full-stack approach in our organizational structure and operations, providing crucial value beyond capital to tilt the odds in favour of the visionary teams we back.
Our Mission
Identify visionary founders from emerging markets, provide full-stack support to fuel their success and expand the native web3 ecosystem to the global stage.
Our northstar mission is to identify and capitalize visionary teams from emerging markets who are playing the long-game. We provide full-stack mission-critical resources with our purpose-built team to fuel their success whether it’s in fundraising, research, talent, growth, intelligence, legal, marketing, tokenomics and community support.
Our broader goal is to grow the native web3 ecosystem in these markets through our strategic and long-term community & ecosystem initiatives This includes events, education and experiences to broaden the web3 base such as India Blockchain Week Conference, Protostars accelerator, Text to Code workshops, HODL legal platform and many more.