Hawk was founded by Tobias Schweiger, Wolfgang Berner in 2018.

Who are Hawk's investors?

Hawk's investors include DN Capital, PICUS CAPITAL, Rabo Corporate Venturing, BlackFin Capital Partners, Coalition, Macquarie Capital, Sands Capital Ventures.

How much funding has Hawk raised?

Hawk has disclosed $56M raised across 1 round.

Where is Hawk headquartered?

Hawk is headquartered in Munich, DE.

Hawk

Munich, DE · Founded 2018 · 267 employees on LinkedIn · 9 known investors

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Hawk provides a cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platform for anti-money-laundering and financial compliance, processing billions of transactions in real time. It targets financial institutions that need transaction monitoring and compliance tooling, offering a RESTful JSON API and multi-cloud deployment.

AI & Machine Learning Cybersecurity Fintech SaaS

Founders & leadership

Hawk was founded in 2018 by Tobias Schweiger and Wolfgang Berner.

Tobias Schweiger Co-founder & CEOFintech veteran; former CFO/COO of PAY.ON (sold to ACI) and ACI Worldwide operations roles. Also a founding partner at Current.

Wolfgang Berner Chief Product Officer, Co-FounderFormer PAY.ON SVP Product and ACI eCommerce/fraud product lead. Also a founding partner at Current.

Maximilian Riege Chief Risk OfficerHe has previously held executive roles including Managing Director at Penta (which was acquired by Qonto), General Representative and General Counsel at Verimi where he secured regulatory licensing, and investor roles spanning financial services, RegTech, and digital identity across the US and Europe; he is dual-qualified as an attorney in Germany and New York.

Eli Chamoun President & Chief Revenue OfficerEli Chamoun is President and Chief Revenue Officer at Hawk, a cloud-native SaaS platform for anti-money-laundering and financial compliance. He previously worked at Security ScoreCard.

Ben Pannier Chief Technology OfficerBen Pannier is CTO of Hawk and brings over 20 years of experience building transactional platforms in regulated industries including payment systems, open banking, fraud prevention, and security, with prior engineering and product leadership roles at Tide, Zalando, PayU, and Nokia.

Daniel Marshall Chief Customer OfficerHe has spent 25 years in customer success, professional services, and enterprise support roles, including leadership positions at ServiceNow, C3 AI, Dataiku, and Chainalysis, where he scaled operations serving hundreds of millions in ARR.

Felix BerkhahnChief AI Officer

Falk Schubert Chief Revenue OfficerFalk Schubert brings over 15 years of experience in B2B SaaS, payments, and technology sectors across multiple regions, with a background in building and scaling sales organizations and driving revenue growth.

Sarah Merker Chief Marketing OfficerSarah Merker is Chief Marketing Officer at Hawk, a cloud-native SaaS platform for financial compliance and anti-money-laundering. She previously held marketing leadership roles at Oracle and MICROS, as well as in earlier-stage companies, with expertise spanning digital, content, product, and channel marketing.

Investors · 9

DN Capitallisted by DN CapitalLondon · $270K – $22M

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PICUS CAPITALlisted by PICUS CAPITALMunich · $100K – $5M

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Rabo Corporate Venturinglisted by Rabo Corporate VenturingUtrecht · $1.1M – $5.5M

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BlackFin Capital PartnersreportedParis

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CoalitionreportedCambridge

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Macquarie CapitalreportedSydney Nsw

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Sands Capital VenturesreportedArlington · $10M – $30M

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Also in the syndicate · 2

One PeakleadRabobank

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$56M disclosed across 1 round · 2025

$56MSeries CApr 2025 · 2 sources
One Peak (lead), BlackFin Capital Partners, Coalition, DN Capital, Macquarie Capital, Picus, Rabobank, Sands Capital
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In the news

Hawk Raises $56 Million in Series C Fundinghawk.ai · Apr 2025

Frequently asked questions

What does Hawk do?: Hawk provides a cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platform for anti-money-laundering and financial compliance, processing billions of transactions in real time. It targets financial institutions that need transaction monitoring and compliance tooling, offering a RESTful JSON API and multi-cloud deployment.
Who founded Hawk?: Hawk was founded by Tobias Schweiger, Wolfgang Berner in 2018.
Who are Hawk's investors?: Hawk's investors include DN Capital, PICUS CAPITAL, Rabo Corporate Venturing, BlackFin Capital Partners, Coalition, Macquarie Capital, Sands Capital Ventures.
How much funding has Hawk raised?: Hawk has disclosed $56M raised across 1 round.
Where is Hawk headquartered?: Hawk is headquartered in Munich, DE.