Your trusty investment co-pilot

Transforming innovations into investable businesses

pitchhawk is a tech-enabled, human-delivered services platform offering cutting-edge business fortification and investor readiness solutions to innovation founders, CEOs, and tech teams.

We exist because far too many promising innovations miss out on funding, not due to weak technology—but because the business foundation and investment case haven’t been fully built.

By combining deep hands-on investment expertise with smart technology, pitchhawk delivers unique solutions, guiding you step by step to investor readiness and saving you hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars compared to outdated methods.

With pitchhawk as your trusty co-pilot, you’re equipped to build a well-fortified business surrounded by a compelling investment proposition—one that professional investors can recognise, trust, and confidently support.

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, 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 ready, you take the controls, managing your own fundraising.

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.

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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 help you do this smarter, stronger and faster than outdated methods, saving you hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars in the process.

And if your proposition truly stands out, you may be invited to unlock a select investor matching bonus level offered through an exclusive partner, discreetly connecting you with curated capital partners that get what you’re building.

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?

Are you seeking capital from experienced angels, family offices, corporates, institutions—or being asked to justify the next round of internal funding to your own treasury team?

If you answered “yes,” and you’re based in, or originated from Australia, pitchhawk is here to help you transform your innovation into an investable business—smarter, stronger, and faster—so you can raise meaningful capital with greater success.

With pitchhawk as your trusty co-pilot, you’re ready to present a well-fortified business surrounded by a compelling investment case that professional investors can recognise, trust, and confidently invest in.

Ready to fly?

pitchhawk transforms innovations into investable businesses with the perfect blend of insightful humanity 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!

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