Gold standard investor readiness
Transforming innovations into investable businesses
pitchhawk is a human-led, tech-enabled platform delivering business fortification and investor readiness solutions for innovation companies seeking capital and liquidity.
We exist because too many promising innovations miss out on funding, not due to weak technology, but because the commercial foundations beneath them and the investment cases around them haven’t been fully built.
Unlike investment readiness programs and levels that merely paper over missing elements, pitchhawk goes deeper—diagnosing strengths and weaknesses, fortifying what works, and helping you construct the missing elements well before you produce your investor summaries.
The result is a stronger, smarter and faster path to fortress-strength investor readiness at a fraction of the time and cost of glossy approaches that routinely crumble under professional investor scrutiny. Whether you’re at pre-seed, Series A, IPO, or preparing for exit, pitchhawk ensures your business enters the corporate arena, fortress-strength and investor-ready—every single time.
Challenge
As a leader driving innovation, you know your breakthrough technology inside out. But turning that innovation into a scalable business and investment opportunity can feel overwhelming.
At the same time, professional investors don’t back technology. They back real, scalable, and investable businesses. Ones built to endure and dominate their landscape. And while a strong presentation helps, it’s the strength of the underlying business and the investment case around it—that truly attracts capital.
Without these solid foundations and investability signals, raising capital presents a daunting challenge. And in today’s landscape where access to capital determines whether your innovation thrives or stalls, laser-focussed investor readiness support is no longer optional, it’s indispensable.
That’s precisely where pitchhawk comes in.
Solution
pitchhawk is your ultimate business fortification and investor readiness superpower, transforming innovations into investable businesses, smarter, stronger, and faster than the old ways.
Blending our tech-enabled solutions platform with decades of real-world investment insight, we objectively evaluate and rank your business and its investability, while you’re pitching it to us.
Using advanced tools, we pinpoint gaps and help you close them, transforming your innovation into a business that’s sturdy, predictable, scalable, and resilient—much like a mighty fortress that’s been engineered to grow and defend its territory without constant reinvesting and rebuilding.
pitchhawk soars high above the noise and agendas of individual investors. We don’t pinch, poach, or push. Instead, we get you ready—fast—so you can raise capital on your terms, with investors who share your vision.
Once you’re truly investor-ready, you take the controls.
Investor-ready Pre-flights
At the heart of pitchhawk are our unique fixed-price, in-person Pre-flights. These simulated investor meetings provide a safe, supportive space to pitch your business and investment proposal, while we co-pilot the session, critically analysing and assessing your business and investment proposition with razor-sharp precision.
After each Pre-flight you’ll receive clear, actionable feedback that brings you closer to investor-ready mastery. We’ll chart your course and destination—you set the pace.
Curious how it works?
Business fortification superpowers
Because you can’t be investor-ready until you’re business-ready, we offer fixed-price precision knowledge packages to fix or fortify your business and investor proposition. Examples include:
High impact business models and growth strategies
Best fit commercial models to drive predictable revenues
Strategic competitor analysis, value proposition design, and moat building
Aligned financing plans and compelling investment proposition design
These packages become available after your first Pre-flight and serve as ideal accelerants between Pre-flights or whenever needed.
The pitchhawk difference
By combining deep finance and investment expertise with Pre-flights and precision knowledge packages, pitchhawk surgically targets your core business and investment fundamentals—revealing your true readiness level, closing gaps, fortifying your underlying business and investment case, and guiding you to genuine investor readiness.
Whether you need to refine, rebuild, or construct missing elements from scratch, our fixed-price solutions ensure you are truly business and investor-ready before facing professional investors— saving you hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of dollars compared to outdated advisory processes and cookie-cutter programs that routinely crumble under investor scrutiny.
And if your proposition truly stands out, you may be invited to unlock a curated investor matching bonus level offered through our exclusive partner, discreetly connecting you with curated capital partners and buyers, that get what you’re building. Find out more on our Solutions page.
Who is pitchhawk?
pitchhawk was created and is led by Mike Ganon, aka Hawk 1, a seasoned investment banker who has guided and supported billions in capital and growth transactions across three decades and six continents. To learn more about the thinking, experience and inspiration behind pitchhawk, dive into our origins.
Who is pitchhawk for?
Are you a CEO or founder of an innovation-active startup or scale-up, or an innovation leader transforming your industry from within a listed or privately held business?
Are you seeking capital or liquidity from family offices, corporates, strategic investors, VCs, institutions and other professional investors, or non-dilutive capital from sovereign funds or banks?
Or are you focused on building a scalable, defensible, and enduring business, whether or not a fundraising or liquidity event is on your immediate horizon?
If you answered “yes,” and you’re based in, or originated from, Australia, pitchhawk is the smarter, stronger, and faster way to transform your innovation into a fortress-strength investable business.
Ready to fly?
pitchhawk transforms innovations into investable businesses with the perfect blend of human expertise and efficient technology. That’s the pitchhawk edge.
View our solutions and origins, find out what’s behind our name, make a booking and launch your journey to investor-ready mastery today!
