# Hawke Ventures

> Hawke Ventures is a VC fund in Los Angeles backing E-Commerce and Software. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 5%
- Fund size: $25M
- Last fund: Mar 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/hawke-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://mobile.twitter.com/hawkeventures
- Website: http://hawkeventures.com

Hawke Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that invests in Commerce Tech, MarTech, and AdTech.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Hawke Ventures. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Hawke Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/hawke-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 11 | 26% |
| Software | 10 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 19% |
| Marketing | 7 | 17% |
| Advertising | 6 | 14% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 21% |
| Series A | 8 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Clark Landry | Managing Partner | 105 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clark-landry |
| Drew Leahy | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drew-leahy |
| Erik Huberman | Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer ,Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-huberman |
| Mara Chaben | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mara-chaben |
| Paige Craig | Founder & General Partner | 52 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paige-craig |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tie | Revenue Roll expands firms by providing them with the analytics, tools, and opportunity to fulfill their maximum revenue potential.The company's analytics platform will effectively and sustainably raise business ROAS over time. The platform from Revenue Roll will automatically connect to the website and advertising accounts and startenhancing ROAS. | $10M | Series A | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Gumshoe AI | Gumshoe AI is revolutionizing how companies use AI-powered search. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| Intelligems | IntelliGems is Online stores are leaving money on the table by pricing inefficiently. We run A/B tests to find the optimal price to maximize sales and margin. | $9M | Series A | Mar 13, 2025 |  |
| Patrol AI | Patrol AI is an Digital Accessibility Service firm developing an automated platform for merchants. | $4.3M | Pre-Seed | Dec 06, 2024 |  |
| Omnishelf | Omnishelf is a retail platform. |  | Seed | Nov 02, 2024 |  |
| Plai | Digital marketing is just a few taps away. Discover micro-influencers and new keywords for your brand. Create and launch expert Google Ads and YouTube Ads in minutes. Get the answers you need, fast from Google Analytics and more with voice command.No marketing experience required or technical mumbo-jumbo. Plai is easy to set up with a few taps,and available on the go. It's like having a full-cycle marketing team in your pocket!Stay informed Plai provides tools to help you market. Before creating a marketing campaign or even a social post, you can access trending content in your niche, discover relevant keywords, and learn the latest marketing strategies.Grow your brand Our tools, services, and information are built to be intuitive and accessible for everyone — newcomers and experts alike. Plai uses cutting-edge marketing strategies to help brands create and optimize their digital marketing campaigns in just a few taps. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2024 |  |
| HeatMap, Inc | HeatMap, Inc. provides realtime SaaS website analytics, with intuitive heatmaps inspired by augmented reality principles. In realtime, editors and marketers know what is happening right on their website so they can act quickly to optimize the performances of their content and build their audience, improving their user retention or sales. | $4M | Seed | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| firmly.ai | firmly.ai makes digital ads and impressions more shoppable with significantly higher conversions. It a multi-patented streamlined checkout experience that requires 0 changes for the Merchant site where the customer is inspired to shop—without redirects, extra clicks or missing data. |  | Seed | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| GoCharlie.AI | We are a generative AI company leading the development of a goal-driven and multi-model deep language engine: Charlie!What does Charlie do? Imagine asking an AI to write you the best social media post that maximizes impressions, or create a photo-realistic image of a coffee ad that makes you feel warm and excited, or even draft a narrative for anentire marketing campaign. That's what we're working on at Gaudium.At Gaudium, we believe the future of work is one where the use of generative AI, like Charlie, plus human input will be fundamental to stay competitive in an ever-increasing automated world. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 16, 2023 |  |
| StayTuned | StayTuned is building a suite of tools to help high growth e-commerce brands grow even faster. Our focus is on Shopify, the go-to platform for e-commerce brands. We are backed by top tier institutional VCs and well known angel investors. | $9M | Series A | May 09, 2023 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FirstMark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmark-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hustle Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hustle-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LAUNCH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-co) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Legendary Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/legendary-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hawke Ventures invest in?

Hawke Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Hawke Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Hawke Ventures?

The team at Hawke Ventures includes Clark Landry (Managing Partner), Drew Leahy (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Erik Huberman (Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer ,Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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