# Matt Hawes

> Matt Hawes is a pre-seed investor at 645 Ventures backing Generative AI and Data Management. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [645 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/645-ventures)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewhawes-/

Matt Hawes is an Associate on 645 Ventures’ Investment & Research team. He partners with new and existing portfolio founders across data, infrastructure, AI/ML, and enterprise SaaS.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Generative AI | 1 | 100% |
| Data Management | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agency AI | Agency assists enterprises in developing, assessing, and overseeing AI agents. Committed to fostering a secure and dependable environment for AI agent creation, Agency's flagship product, AgentOps.ai, is designed to revolutionize the way businesses build, deploy, and manage AI agents, emphasizing compliance, observability, and scalability. | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Aug 28, 2024 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About 645 Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

645 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders who are building iconic companies. We invest at the Seed and Series A stages and leverage our Voyager software platform to enable our Success team and Connected Network to help founders scale to the growth stage. Select portfolio companies that have reachedthe growth stage include Iterable, Goldbelly, Resident, Eden Health, FiscalNote, and Squire.We invest in four main areas: SaaS for the Second Wave, Citizen Professionals, The Engineering Value Chain Revolution, and Personalized Consumer Applications. You can read more here: https://645ventures.com/themes/645 Ventures has $200m+ in AUM and is growing fast with backing from leading institutional investors, including university endowments, funds of funds, and pension funds. We have over 35 active companies in our portfolio in the areas of enterprise SaaS, infrastructure software, and consumer technology. Several of our portfolio companies have been acquired by Google, Facebook, Expedia, and private equity firms.

5 contacts available at 645 Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alessio Fanelli | Principal, Investment & Research | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alessio-fanelli |
| Blake Jennelle | CTO In Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-jennelle |
| Guerin Schwarberg | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guerin-schwarberg-bfa1 |
| Justin Fargione | Senior Full Stack Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-fargione |
| Matt Hawes | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-hawes-cdf1 |

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## FAQ

### What does Matt Hawes invest in?

Matt Hawes invests primarily in Generative AI, Data Management and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Matt Hawes last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matt Hawes closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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