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Hawke Ventures
Venture capital · Los Angeles, CA, United States · North America
Hawke Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that invests in Commerce Tech, MarTech, and AdTech. It is affiliated with the digital marketing agency Hawke Media, which it uses to introduce portfolio companies to brand customers and to conduct diligence.
Invests inE-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordscommerce techmartechadtechmarketingecommerce
Your fit with Hawke Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsHawke Ventures lists 36 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are E-commerce & Marketplaces (28%), AI & Machine Learning (25%) and Fintech (13%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Western Technology Investment and Bling Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Hawke Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Hawke Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 36. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 67% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 1 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 74th | 36 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 56th | 3% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 46th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 28% | 6% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 25% | 18% |
| Fintech | 13% | 12% |
| Media & Entertainment | 9% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Consumer | 8% | 3% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 2% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 4 |
| Western Technology Investment | 3 |
| Bling Capital | 2 |
| Good Friends | 2 |
| Interlace Ventures | 2 |
| LightShed Ventures | 2 |
| Mu Ventures | 2 |
| PLUS Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3289%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company411%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Hawke Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Hawke Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Nov 2025 | Seed | |
| 30 Sept 2025 | Series A | |
| 22 Feb 2022 | Series A |
Round details for Hawke Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Hawke Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
36 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio page | ||||
| ArroFi offers a credit card that helps users build credit and provides financial tools and lessons | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Chord provides an analytics harness that manages and improves context, applies permissions, and validates queries to help business users get trusted answers from their data | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Clickvoyant combines buyer psychology, data science, experimentation, and development to help businesses turn growth bottlenecks into shipped work. | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company manufactures and delivers products created by its customers | ConsumerE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Fairing provides post-purchase surveys for marketing attribution | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Gemist provides a custom jewelry design and ordering platform for fine jewelry brands to embed into their websites | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Vela Labs provides an AI-powered platform for ecommerce sellers to manage and optimize their listings across multiple channels. | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Gumshoe monitors how AI models talk about a brand and provides tools to shape the conversation | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Heatmap analyzes customer interactions and provides ecommerce analytics and behavioral intelligence to help businesses identify revenue leaks and areas for improvement | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Iconsource operates an athletic endorsements marketplace for brands | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Intelligems provides A/B testing and personalization services for ecommerce businesses | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Junction builds, deploys, and manages production-grade AI for industries where accuracy, compliance, and leveraging their own data are non-negotiable | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | |||
| Kinter provides AI-powered accounting tools to automate tasks such as payroll, accruals, and reconciliations for accountants. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2022Series A | Funding round | |
| LocalDrive provides a digital marketing solution for multi-unit businesses | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Omnishelf is a retail platform whose AI agents list products, manage onboarding work for each retailer, and run sales, operations and finance | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Orion makes a sleep system that cools or heats each side of the bed to help people sleep better. | Healthcare & BiotechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Patrolapp helps Shopify brands and small businesses become accessible and ADA compliant by automating manual auditing, user-testing, and custom software development work. | E-commerce & MarketplacesCybersecurity | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- hawkeventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 22 Feb 2022
- Companies checked
- 36
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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