Origins
pitchhawk
pitchhawk is an innovative, tech-enabled and human-delivered solutions platform offering cutting-edge business fortification and investor-readiness superpowers to innovation founders, CEOs, and tech teams.
Created by Mike Ganon, pitchhawk wasn’t built overnight. It’s the result of more than 70,000 hours in the trenches of corporate development, finance, and investment—refined, tested, and now shared.
By combining real-world judgment with modern tools and a sharp feedback system, pitchhawk gives founders and innovators a safe space—and a suite of investor readiness superpowers—to test, sharpen, and fortify their business and investment case before stepping into the real arena.
As your trusty co-pilot, pitchhawk turns technologies into compelling business and investment opportunities—smarter, stronger and faster than outdated methods.
Genesis
“pitchhawk exists because I’ve seen far too many promising innovations fail to attract the capital they deserved.
In most cases, it wasn’t the idea. It was the absence of a viable business beneath it or a compelling investment case around it.
Technology, no matter how advanced, isn’t investable unless it’s embedded in something robust, credible, and compelling—and what that means is that behind each glossy pitch deck, investors need to see a truly investable business. 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.
I created pitchhawk to close those gaps and solve that problem. Not with hustle, hype, or surface-level tools—but with deep business fortification knowhow and a goals-based platform that engages and empowers innovators to build investable businesses that professional investors can recognise, trust, and back for the long term.
That’s the pitchhawk edge.”
—Mike Ganon
Creator, Hawk 1
Mike is a seasoned ‘on the tools’ expert in corporate development, finance, mergers, acquisitions, buy-side investments and capital markets.
Over the course of his career which commenced in the post-crash 1990s, he has built a diverse track record as a corporate/project financier, equity underwriter, investment banker, responsible manager and key person for a private equity fund manager and two corporate advisory firms which he operated, as well as a VC limited partner, startup investor, and solopreneur.
Leading nextlevelcorporate and pitchhawk, Mike continues to work across diverse domains from private fundraisings for IT&C, managed services, health, energy/low carbon economy, web1.0/2.0/3.0, fintech, VR/AR/MR, software, cloud, automation, advanced manufacturing, IIoT and physical tech—through to corporate mergers, acquisitions and IPOs (including Western Australia’s two largest government privatisation IPOs, and Australia’s largest).
His experience spans equity underwritings, structured financings, investments, takeovers, mergers, acquisitions and sale events across the entire physical and digital technology spectrum and use cases—on the buy-side, sell-side and independently.
Since 2004, Mike has invested in innovative companies and digital asset projects in the manufacturing, bioenergy refining, low carbon economy, physical tech, cloud/big data, AR/VR, software, crypto, NFT and web3.0 verticals, helping with strategy, capital and investability.
Mike holds an MBA in International Business, a Bachelor of Business in Finance and Accounting, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia (now FINSIA). He has also guest-lectured in the SIA’s Advanced Corporate Finance II module and is a Chartered Member of the UK-based Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (Chartered MCSI).
Why choose pitchhawk?
Most investor readiness tools focus on polishing or repackaging what you already have, without fixing the real gaps that stop you from raising capital. pitchhawk flies higher and dives deeper.
Our exclusive Pre-flights put you in a realistic investor pitch environment, giving you a clear read on your business and investment case from an investor’s perspective, plus immediately actionable feedback to help close those gaps. Need sharp help in a specific area? Our precision knowledge packages deliver focused advice right where, and when it counts.
Our superpowers are delivered at fixed prices, saving you time, money, and guesswork, while helping you unlock the real investment potential in your business, and compete for capital with confidence.
And if your proposition truly stands out, you may be invited to unlock a select investor matching bonus level offered by our exclusive partner, discreetly connecting you with curated capital partners that get what you’re building.
In short, pitchhawk helps you transform innovation into a business that investors can believe in and back with confidence—creating smarter, stronger, and faster flightpaths to success.
The pitchhawk edge
Transforming innovations into investable businesses with the perfect blend of insightful humanity and efficient technology—that’s the pitchhawk edge.
Our tech-enabled tools accelerate your business readiness, while our investment expertise helps you craft a fortified business surrounded by a compelling investment rationale that professional investors can’t ignore.
pitchhawk is delighted to welcome you to the ultimate business fortification and investor readiness platform—where innovation meets investability!
