Our Roots
Hashed
#Hashed, which is based in Seoul, San Francisco, Bangkok and Singapore, is one of the earliest investment firms to focus on blockchain technology. As early movers to this ecosystem, Hashed has experienced the success of backing pioneering founders and companies including Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, Cosmos, Klaytn, dYdX, Matter Labs, Aptos and many more. We are proud to share our roots and vision with Hashed!
"Our deep-rooted relationship with Hashed, their wealth of experience and invaluable network provides us a steady anchor to navigate this ecosystem at all times."
Our Thesis
Hashed was an early adopter of the decentralization thesis
With a belief that blockchain technology will change the fabric of the internet,
Hashed made investments in the blockchain infrastructure layer as early as 2017.
Today, the ability of blockchain technology to redistribute value on a global scale
is proven beyond doubt. As the infrastructure layer matures and becomes scalable and
sustainable, blockchain-based web applications will see a flurry of development,
innovation and adoption.
We, at Hashed Emergent, are dedicated to discovering the innovative founders from
emerging markets who are building on top of the infrastructure layer, imagining new
use cases, disrupting incumbents and delivering applications that will enable the
mass adoption of this technology stack.
Web 2.5
Our belief is that, at the intersection of web2 and web3, there exists a large whitespace for innovation . Projects that build & operate at this transition will leverage the scalability and efficiency of web2, with the permissionless & decentralised nature of web3. Such ventures will create a fundamentally novel way to interact on the internet and digitally participate in the real world economy. We believe that such 'web2.5' projects will redefine our future for the better.
Finance
Entertainment
Social
Service & Infra
Others
Finance
Blockchain-based finance holds the potential to democratise access to complex financial products for the masses and banking the unbanked through decentralized 'money lego blocks'.
Entertainment
Creators and consumers on entertainment platforms can now utilize digital assets to open up news ways to drive engagement and value among each other without intermediaries.
Social
Communities and guilds operating on online social-networks can now experience an increasingly self-sovereign access & ownership of such networks through blockchain-based organizational design and structures.
Service & Infra
Middleware products and services will act as a bridge to identify and address the ancillary pain-points faced by builders in the web3 industry.
Others
Oftentimes, the most innovative and revolutionary ideas spring from a place of deep personal experience and a vision that others do not yet foresee.
Emerging Markets
Our geographic focus is on founders from emerging markets, across the world. These markets will contribute the lion’s share of global population and economic growth in the coming years, have a formidable technology talent pool, and are primed to build solutions that will help them ‘leapfrog’ advanced economies in the adoption of emerging technologies. We believe in backing such disruptive founders from emerging markets, especially from India.
India
Africa
Middle East
Southeast Asia
Others
India
In the last few decades, India has transformed from the 'software outsourcing' centre of the world, to the 'software excellence' centre of the world. Indians, with the 'jugaad' and strive hard philosophy, will constitute a large chunk of the leading founders in web3.
Africa
Africa is a continent that is primed to 'leapfrog' the rest of the world in terms of its digital infrastructure. By onboarding millions of users to the cutting edge of modern internet technology - web3 - African founders can revolutionise an entire continent.
Middle East
Dubai and Abu Dhabi are established financial hubs in Asia and now, an emerging global hubs for the web3 ecosystem as well. A thriving and global ecosystem of founders & funds are establishing themselves here to build their foundations and tap into the Middle East region.
Southeast Asia
South East Asian countries have amongst the highest rates of web3 adoption and usage in the world. The people of these countries intuitively understand the value proposition of emerging technologies such as web3, and have the practical means of operating and building up the ecosystem across the region as well.
Others
The Internet and web3 in and of itself, is a borderless phenomenon and innovation knows no geographic limits. Founders and projects from outside our core focus regions, but within our core investment thesis, also remain on our radar.
Web 2.5
Our belief is that, at the intersection of web2 and web3, there exists a large whitespace for innovation . Projects that build & operate at this transition will leverage the scalability and efficiency of web2, with the permissionless & decentralised nature of web3. Such ventures will create a fundamentally novel way to interact on the internet and digitally participate in the real world economy. We believe that such 'web2.5' projects will redefine our future for the better.
Finance
Blockchain-based finance holds the potential to democratise access to complex financial products for the masses and banking the unbanked through decentralized 'money lego blocks'.
Entertainment
Creators and consumers on entertainment platforms can now utilize digital assets to open up news ways to drive engagement and value among each other without intermediaries.
Social
Communities and guilds operating on online social-networks can now experience an increasingly self-sovereign access & ownership of such networks through blockchain-based organizational design and structures.
Service & Infra
Middleware products and services will act as a bridge to identify and address the ancillary pain-points faced by builders in the web3 industry.
Others
Oftentimes, the most innovative and revolutionary ideas spring from a place of deep personal experience and a vision that others do not yet foresee.
Emerging Markets
Our geographic focus is on founders from emerging markets, across the world. These markets will contribute the lion’s share of global population and economic growth in the coming years, have a formidable technology talent pool, and are primed to build solutions that will help them ‘leapfrog’ advanced economies in the adoption of emerging technologies. We believe in backing such disruptive founders from emerging markets, especially from India.
India
In the last few decades, India has transformed from the 'software outsourcing' centre of the world, to the 'software excellence' centre of the world. Indians, with the 'jugaad' and strive hard philosophy, will constitute a large chunk of the leading founders in web3.
Africa
Africa is a continent that is primed to 'leapfrog' the rest of the world in terms of its digital infrastructure. By onboarding millions of users to the cutting edge of modern internet technology - web3 - African founders can revolutionise an entire continent.
Middle East
Dubai and Abu Dhabi are established financial hubs in Asia and now, an emerging global hubs for the web3 ecosystem as well. A thriving and global ecosystem of founders & funds are establishing themselves here to build their foundations and tap into the Middle East region.
Southeast Asia
South East Asian countries have amongst the highest rates of web3 adoption and usage in the world. The people of these countries intuitively understand the value proposition of emerging technologies such as web3, and have the practical means of operating and building up the ecosystem across the region as well.
Others
The Internet and web3 in and of itself, is a borderless phenomenon and innovation knows no geographic limits. Founders and projects from outside our core focus regions, but within our core investment thesis, also remain on our radar.
Our Mission
Our primary goal is to forge meaningful partnerships
With stakeholders in the industry & make daring yet sound investments alongside them in
emerging markets and technologies. In order to achieve this, we have adopted a
full-stack approach to our mindset and organization structure.
Our contribution to projects goes beyond capital infusion and we intend to play the long
game, extending ourselves by being go-to partners in strategic decision-making,
including go-to-market, research, tokenomics, marketing, community, legal, talent and
finance. This end-to-end support makes us reliable long-term partners for any founder,
and enables us to provide value addition in various forms to the projects we back.