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Venture capitalSanta Monica · Pre-Seed–Series A · 7 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Hawke Ventures invests at the early stage in commerce technology, marketing technology, advertising technology, and emerging marketing channels. Its differentiator is a partnership with Hawke Media, a digital marketing agency, which gives the fund access to hundreds of brand clients. This network enables deep diligence on prospective investments and allows Hawke Media to serve as a sales driver for portfolio companies, which the firm describes as an 'unfair advantage' when backing companies in its target sectors.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 27, 2026.
Team · 7 people
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What they invest in
from 41 of 48 portfolio companiesSaaS ×21Marketing Tech ×18AI & Machine Learning ×17E-commerce ×17AdTech ×9Enterprise Software ×7Retail Tech ×7Media & Entertainment ×6
HQs:United States×22Germany×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 26 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×152 founders×73 founders×34+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 25 founders with education data
New York University ×3University of Southern California ×3Harvard Business School ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 27 founders with field-of-study data
Business & Management ×8Economics ×6Engineering ×4Computer Science ×3Finance & Accounting ×3
Where their founders worked beforefrom 27 founders with career history
Adobe ×2Glossier ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
3 hold an MBA (of 28 with degree data)
Investments · 48 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 32024 · 22023 · 12022 · 22018 · 12015 · 110 dated
Partnerhub is a SaaS platform for matchmaking and managing partnerships between SaaS/tech companies and digital agencies, using a customer-profile matching algorithm plus tools for referral tracking, tasking, documents, co-marketing projects, and a public partner directory.
B2B MarketplacesMarketing TechSaaS
Beverly Hills, US
Brandon Werber(Founder)inEliyahu Ben-Ezra(Executive Officer)Roy Rubin(Director)Asher Leids(Director)
BoardWilliam Su(Director)David Shadpour(Director)
Co-investorsCanvas VenturesHeadlineMountain Group CapitalPath VenturesStarting LineTrueSight Ventures+5 more
Alloy provides an embedded integration platform (iPaaS) with AI agents, MCP servers, and a connectivity API that lets software providers and enterprises build and manage integrations across systems like NetSuite, SAP, Salesforce, and Shopify.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Gregg Mojica(Founder)
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAmbush CapitalBoxGroupContraryGreen Meadow VenturesHabitat Partners+6 more
Buffalo, US
Sara Du(Cofounder)inGregg Mojica(Cofounder)
BoardDavid Ulevitch(Director)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzBain Capital VenturesBoxGroupColor CapitalFirstMark Capital
Arro is a fintech platform that offers a credit-building credit card with cash back rewards and an AI-powered money coach to help users build credit, earn financial rewards, and improve their financial habits.
Fintech
Luke Pelullo(Founder)Ryan Duitch(Founder)
Co-investorsBAM VenturesBling CapitalBullpen CapitalCrosslink CapitalD3VCWestern Technology Investment+6 more
Behance is a portfolio and community platform for creative professionals to showcase their work, discover clients, and grow their careers.
B2B MarketplacesCreator EconomyImpact & Social GoodMarketplacesMedia & EntertainmentSocial
Scott Belsky(Founder)inMatias Corea(Founder)in
Co-investors500 GlobalBoxGroupUnion Square Ventures (USV)Adverb VenturesChemistryKindred Ventures+1 more
Chord provides a unified data layer and AI-powered agents for commerce brands to centralize fragmented data across tools and automate operations.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureE-commerceMarketing Tech
Bryan Mahoney(Founder)inHenry Davis(Founder)inBola Awoniyi(Founder)
Co-investorsAct One VenturesAlleyCorpBright Pixel CapitalEqual VenturesFoundation CapitalGood Friends+12 more
Clickvoyant provides conversion rate optimization (CRO) and analytics services on a fixed monthly retainer, including GA4 data cleaning, dashboards, natural-language analysis, and AI-generated CRO roadmaps.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureE-commerceMarketing TechSaaSSan Diego, US
Co-investorsExpert DOJOHow Women InvestIdeashipMaropost VenturesRogue Womens FundTechstars
Fairing provides a survey platform that consolidates customer feedback into a single stream, allowing teams to target specific questions to customer segments based on behavior and timing.
AdTechE-commerceMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsFiDi VenturesTrue VenturesV1 VCCowboy Ventures
Firmly provides a platform that connects merchants and their commerce stacks to AI agents through a single integration, supporting agentic protocols such as UCP, ACP, MCP, AP2, and TAP without engineering work.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechSeattle, US
Kumar N Senthil(Founder)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesFJ LabsMu VenturesPID Fund I, a series of DV Collective, LPRachel Zoe VenturesBenhamou Global Ventures+1 more
Adam Kirk(Founder)Ajay Kulkarni(Founder)Alberto Taiuti(Founder)Alex Yu(Founder)Alexandra Mysoor(Founder)Alexis Rivas(Founder)
Co-investorsOpen Field Capital01 Advisors1984 Ventures Management, Llc359 Capital8VCAcrew Capital+59 more
Gemist provides technology solutions for online jewelry retailers, offering customizable user experiences and tools designed to increase customer engagement and sales conversion.
E-commerceRetail TechSaaSLos Angeles, US
Madeline Fraser(Founder + CEO)inAnup Murarka(Co-Founder + CTO)inMarc Jacheet(Director)
BoardJulie Henley McNamara(Director)
Co-investorsEntrada VenturesInterlock CapitalJosephine CollectiveThe Artemis FundTribes VenturesCollide Capital
Brennan Woodruff(Founder)Despoina Christou(Founder)Kostas Hatalis(Founder)Ryan Carlton(Founder)
Co-investorsEmerging VenturesGeek VenturesIU Ventures
Gumshoe is an AI visibility platform that monitors how AI search tools recommend products and discuss brands, enabling marketers to understand and influence brand perception across major AI models.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSSeattle, US
Todd Sawicki(Co-founder)inPatrick O'Donnell(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAscend Venture CapitalGHARAGE VenturesOpenSky VenturesPioneer Square Labs
Heatmap is an on-site analytics platform for ecommerce businesses that links revenue data to specific website elements and user interactions, offering AI-powered recommendations for optimization.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing TechSaaS
Dylan Ander(Founder)inKenn Palmin
Co-investorsEl Cap EquityMu VenturesVine Ventures
Heatmap is a news and media outlet covering climate change and its impact on the economy, politics, and culture.
Climate TechMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsSocial Impact CapitalVine Ventures
Icon Source operates a marketplace connecting brands with athletes for influencer marketing and endorsement deals, including college NIL (name, image, likeness) partnerships.
Marketing TechMarketplacesSports TechDenver, US
Chase Garrett(Founder)in
San Francisco, US
STANISLAV TUSHINSKIY(Director)VICTOR FRUMKIN(Executive Officer)
BoardMICHAEL ILYICEV(Director)
Co-investorsCOREangelsProgress VenturesSmart Partnership CapitalAccompliceDecentral Park Capital
Intelligems builds AI agents that optimize ecommerce storefronts by automatically making real-time decisions about pricing, offers, content, and promotions to maximize conversion and profit from incoming traffic.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceSaaSDenver, US
Adam Kitain 💎(Founder)inDrew Marconi 💎(Founder)inAndrew Raftery(Head of Data, ML, and AI)inDaniel Heck(Director)in
Co-investorsExpansion Venture CapitalMaropost VenturesMatchstick VenturesStage 2 CapitalSuperangelSuperAngel.Fund+3 more
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Junction AI is a Managed Intelligence Partner that builds, deploys, and manages production AI systems micro-tuned on a company's proprietary data, with built-in compliance rules, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop review.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsBlue StartupsAmino CollectiveCreandumInflect HealthOmnivorePoint Nine+1 more
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Kin builds mobile apps for ecommerce brands, converting an existing web store into a native app with full functional parity.
E-commerceRetail TechSaaSNew York City, US
Colyn Montgomery(Founder)in
Co-investorsUpfront Ventures
Kinter provides AI-powered accounting automation that handles expense management, payroll, accruals, and account reconciliation by directly integrating with NetSuite and QuickBooks to accelerate financial close processes.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Gregg Mojica(Founder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzBlackbird VenturesHummingbird VenturesSaaStr FundY CombinatorZmc+12 more
Localdrive is a platform that automates digital marketing campaigns for multi-location businesses, enabling them to manage social media and email campaigns across store locations with real-time performance analytics and audience targeting.
AdTechMarketing TechSaaS
LOST iN produces city travel guides and videos, offering a membership with discounted hotel rates, digital and print guides, and an AI trip-planning concierge.
ConsumerMedia & EntertainmentTravel & Hospitality
Mike Skogmo(Founder)in
Co-investorsFikaMaC Venture CapitalKombo Ventures
ORION is a German online retailer selling erotic products including sex toys, lingerie, costumes, and sensual accessories to adult consumers.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Harry Gestetner(Founder)Werner Susemichel(Founder)
Co-investorsMucker Capital
Patrol is a Shopify app that automates accessibility auditing and ADA compliance remediation for e-commerce merchants by identifying and fixing accessibility violations directly in theme files rather than using overlay widgets.
LegalTechSaaS
SamNico
Co-investorsFounder CollectiveNextView VenturesNVP CapitalNewark Venture Partners
Pentane is a financial operating system for eCommerce brands that connects store, advertising, and accounting data into a live P&L to show real margin by product, channel, and day.
AdTechE-commerceFintech
Adam Callinan(Founder)in
Plai is an AI-powered advertising platform that simplifies campaign creation and management for brands, agencies, and creators.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechLos Angeles, US
Logan Welbaum(Founder)in
Co-investorsTenOneTen VenturesY CombinatorCrush VenturesYR Investments
Postscript helps ecommerce brands design and operate SMS marketing programs that engage customers and drive revenue.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSPhoenix, US
Adam Turner(Founder)inAlex Beller(Founder)inColin Turner(Founder)in
BoardMike Duboe(Board Member / Investor representative (General Partner, Greylock))inSarah Guo(Board Member (joined at Series B, 2021, as a Greylock partner))in
Co-investors01 Advisors1984 Ventures Management, LlcAccompliceAli CapitalBeyond CapitalExpanding Capital+12 more
Aeon is an AI platform for marketers that generates on-brand creative assets such as ads, images, and videos from prompts, brand kits, and product catalogs.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Co-investorsM13
ShipInsure provides a post-purchase platform for e-commerce and consumer brands, offering branded shipping protection, order insurance, returns management, claims handling, order tracking, and carbon offsetting.
E-commerceInsurTechRetail Tech
Co-investorsSuperAngel.Fund
Showdrop runs in-store product sampling campaigns for consumer brands using branded vending machines placed in high-traffic retail stores, and gives brands a dashboard with data on impressions, samples dispensed, shopper demographics, feedback, and in-store and online sales lift.
ConsumerMarketing TechRetail TechChicago, US
Alex Segura(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardNick Moran(Director)inLaura Spiekerman(Director)
Co-investorsBling CapitalChicago Early Growth Ventures (CEGV)Dynamism CapitalHypothesisIU VenturesNew Stack Ventures+1 more
Staytuned develops a portfolio of apps for Shopify merchants, covering size charts, wholesale and bulk pricing, product bundles, dropshipping, preorders, event ticketing, and automatic discounts.
E-commerceRetail TechSaaS
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesCourtside VenturesDragonXFJ LabsInterlace VenturesKube VC+4 more
Staytuned provides audio content distribution and streaming apps for iOS, Android, and web platforms.
Media & EntertainmentSaaS
Co-investors50 PartnersRiverPark VenturesAlumni VenturesComma CapitalDragonXFJ Labs+1 more
Steereo places music into rideshare trips and other real-world moments so artists can get discovered by real listeners, with curated playlists that play during actual rideshare rides across the US.
AdTechCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsHalogen Ventures Management Company Llc
Superfiliate is a Shopify-native platform for direct-to-consumer brands that unifies creator, influencer, and affiliate marketing across organic social, paid amplification, and affiliate commerce.
Creator EconomyMarketing TechSaaSVenice, US
Andy Cloyd(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inAnders Bill(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardJack Pierse(Director)
Co-investorsClocktower VenturesRevolutionSocial Impact CapitalSuperAngel.Fund
Sway operates a tech-enabled delivery and returns network for consumer brands, offering premium same-day and next-day delivery, box-less at-home return pickups, and doorstep exchanges.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainRetail Tech
Co-investors7GC & CoEvolution VenturesFeldsmith CapitalGood FriendsGraph VenturesLightShed Ventures+4 more
Sydecar provides a platform for fund managers to form and operate venture funds, including SPV formation, compliance tools (KYC, tax filings, reporting), and investor onboarding for co-investment opportunities.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechHouston, US
Nikhil Talreja(Executive Officer, Director)Nik Talreja(Founder)inDavid Meister(Founder)
BoardDaniel Kimerling(Director)inStephanie Hsieh(Director)
Co-investorsAnthemis VentureBlank Space VenturesDeciensHustle FundLoftyInc CapitalRuna Capital+6 more
Telly builds a television platform designed as a central hub for home entertainment, information, fitness, and social connection.
AdTechConsumerHardwareMedia & EntertainmentSan Francisco, US
Ilya Pozin(Founder)inMohammad Al Adham(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardCameron Lester(Director)Nasser Al-Sabah(Director)Mohammed El Saadi(Director)
Co-investorsEverybody VenturesFourward VenturesGreat Oaks Venture CapitalLightShed VenturesMech VenturesPalm Tree Crew Investments+7 more
The Sill sells houseplants and gardening products directly to consumers, offering plants suited to a customer's taste and space along with workshops, events, and customer support.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Eliza Blank(Founder)in
Co-investorsAurumBlue CollectiveColor CapitalMaywic Select InvestmentsThe Chernin Group (TCG Crypto)Brand Foundry Ventures
Tie is a shopper intelligence platform for ecommerce brands that resolves shopper identities, predicts purchase and engagement intent, and optimizes email inbox placement.
AI & Machine LearningDirect to ConsumerE-commerceMarketing TechSaaSNew York City, US
Alek B(Founder)Michael Diesu(Co-Founder & CEO)inAlek Burk(Executive Officer, Director)Steve Klein(Executive Officer, Director)inJonathan Kopnick(Co-Founder, CTO)in
BoardAnthony Georgiades(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsStage 2 CapitalEastward Capital PartnersirrvrntVC
Totem is an AI-powered operating system for venture capital funds that centralizes transactions, financials, cap tables, documents, and communications into a single source of truth.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSBrooklyn, US
Steven Greenberg(Founder)in
Co-investors100Km Ventures LlcGreen Egg Ventures
Unblocked helps brands run managed advertising campaigns on Reddit, including native content placement across subreddits and exclusive partner ad units to reach buyers in high-intent discussion threads.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMarketing TechSocial
Co-investorsB Capital GroupBAM VenturesProtagonistResolute Ventures
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Vela is a platform that integrates AI tools with proprietary data to provide insights and centralize management for ecommerce sellers across multiple platforms and channels.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsE-commerceFuture of WorkMarketing Tech
Richard Hurst
Co-investors500 GlobalBase Venture Management, Inc.Fuel Venture CapitalLeverageVCMana VenturesPLG Ventures+2 more
WEVO offers an AI-powered user research platform that helps teams test concepts, campaigns, and product experiences using AI personas or real human participants.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Nitzan Shaer(Founder)in
Co-investorsCervinEastward Capital PartnersElevate CapitalFlucas VenturesJ-VenturesRackhouse Venture Management Lp+4 more
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Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesKinter · ycombinator.com · Jun 22, 2026
Chord Commerce · thesaasnews.com · Jun 8, 2026
Firmly · trysignalbase.com · Mar 27, 2026
Postscript · trysignalbase.com · Mar 24, 2026
Tie · finsmes.com · Sep 30, 2025
Gemist Enjoy The Work · finsmes.com · Jun 24, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Hawke Ventures made?
- Hawke Ventures has 48 tracked investments, including 3 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Hawke Ventures invest at?
- Hawke Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Hawke Ventures's typical check size?
- Hawke Ventures typically writes checks of $50K – $2M.
- What sectors does Hawke Ventures focus on?
- Hawke Ventures focuses on AdTech, E-commerce, Enterprise Software, Marketing Tech, Media & Entertainment, Retail Tech, SaaS.
- Where is Hawke Ventures located?
- Hawke Ventures is headquartered in Santa Monica, US.
- Who does Hawke Ventures co-invest with?
- Hawke Ventures most often shares deals with Mu Ventures, FJ Labs, Revolution, among 154 tracked co-investors.
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Kombo Ventures is a diversified holding company that launches, operates, and invests in consumer brands, technology, and entertainment. The firm co-founded three direct-to-consumer brands projected to generate over $100 million in combined revenue in 2021, and operates a talent management division supporting creators and artists in building their businesses.
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