Hawk

formerly Hawk AI

Hawk is a crypto & web3 company in Munich, Germany, founded in 2018. It has raised $83.0M across 4 rounds, most recently a $56.0M Series C in April 2025.

Ending Financial Crime. Together.

Headquarters
Munich
Employees
51–200
Founded
2018
Business Model
B2B
Website
hawk.ai
Total Funding
$83.0M
Last Round
$56.0M Series CApr 2025
Rounds
4

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About

Hawk (originally known as HAWK:AI) is a Munich-based fintech company founded in 2018 by Tobias Schweiger and Wolfgang Berner. The company provides an AI-powered financial crime compliance platform for banks, payment companies, neobanks, fintechs, and cryptocurrency firms. Its solutions span AML transaction monitoring, customer risk rating, customer and payment screening, and fraud prevention across transaction fraud, check fraud, and scams. Hawk's platform uses explainable and auditable machine learning to increase risk detection by 3-5x while reducing false positive alerts by up to 70%, resulting in significant cost savings for financial institutions. In April 2025, Hawk raised a $56M Series C round led by One Peak.

Summary

It lists 51–200 employees. It has raised $83.0M in total across 4 rounds, most recently a $56.0M Series C round in Apr 2025. Investors include BlackFin Capital Partners, One Peak Partners and Sands Capital.

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Funding History

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Series CSeries CApr 2025
$56.0M

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