# Hammer Capital Management

> Hammer Capital Management is a VC fund in Santa Barbara backing Mobile and Big Data. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Barbara, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jan 2016
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.hcmi.com/

Hammer Capital Management is a Santa Barbara based investment adviser specializing in technology sector growth investing. Despite the downturn in the technology sector, they believe that technology represents the future of their country, not the past. Accordingly, they believe that long term growth investors are well advised to considerestablishing portfolios in key leadership technology companies for the economic upturn that lies ahead.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 1 | 50% |
| Big Data | 1 | 50% |
| Hardware | 1 | 50% |
| Internet | 1 | 50% |
| Analytics | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| XQIAO | XQIAO is a smart treadmill developer based in China. | $3.7M | Series A | Jan 01, 2016 |  |
| TalkingData | TalkingData’s advanced data statistics and analytic software have reached nearly 1.5 billion mobile devices in China, providing the most data-rich, reliable and profound market reports from benchmark KPIs, to user behavior studies, to industry movements, trends, and forecasts. Our insightful reports can provide you powerful insights into theChinese Mobile Internet market.TalkingData offers the best-in-class Big Data products varying from highly-scalable data mining, deep data analytics, DMP (Data Management Platform), analytical reports, industry benchmarking, and deep-dive market insight reports. Today, 80% of the Top 50 developers in China rely on us to track their app metrics, analyze user data points, and monetization.Talkingdata was established in Sep. 2011 in Beijing. The Company finished Series A/B funding rounds of over tens of millions of dollars in 2013 and 2014 respectively. After nearly 4 years of rapid development, we now have close collaboration with 90% of the Top 10 distribution channels (Mobile app stores) and Top 10 Ad Networks in China. We are also developing cross-border cooperation with financial and other traditional industries. |  | Series B | Jun 01, 2015 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [N5Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/n5capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Wedo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wenzhou-weidu-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Hammer Capital Management invest in?

Hammer Capital Management invests primarily in Mobile, Big Data and Hardware startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Hammer Capital Management last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hammer Capital Management closed in Jan 2016. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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