Twelve years of sovereign intelligence.
From open-source commerce and early AI head-up displays with SKULLY in 2014, through Techstars ’17 and over $1B in venture-backed client revenue, to 1,600+ repositories and sovereign intelligence today.
Track record
Twelve years of shipping for venture-funded companies
Building business software since 2014, with AI and machine learning in commercial use from the start and GPT models in production by 2019. Founded as Crowdstart and renamed Hanzo in 2016. The first customer, SKULLY, raised $1M in about 45 hours, the fastest fully funded campaign on Indiegogo.
The first blockchain-native commerce platform, 2017: the Unikrn ICO raised over 120,000 ETH.
Damon Motorcycles and Triller, two of the companies Hanzo built with, listed on Nasdaq in 2024.
Hundreds of venture-funded startups, backed by Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Techstars and other tier-1 firms: billions in client revenue, and two companies taken past 100 million users.
Selected for Techstars in 2017 to build intelligent commerce: analytics, marketing and commerce on one learning engine.
The Zen of Hanzo
The principles the company argues from when a decision is close.
Enable the Underdog
Enable others to win. Democratize technology so small businesses and startups can compete with industry giants.
Data-Driven Everything
Let data be your guide. Embrace analytics and AI as the foundation of decision-making.
Open Innovation
Be open, share often. Openness accelerates growth—both for the company and its community.
Adaptability
Pivot with purpose. There is no failure, only feedback. Move quickly and strike in new directions when opportunity calls.
Customer-Centric Growth
Treat each client as a long-term partner and guide them to success.
First Principles Thinking
See the invisible, do the impossible. Boil problems down to their essence and solve them in fundamentally better ways.
Hanzo FDE
Forward deployed engineers who work from inside your team: your people, your systems, your data, on Hanzo’s platform.
Embedded
Engineers join your team, in your tools and on your cadence.On your data
They build against your real systems, inside your security boundary.Shipped
Every engagement ends in working software in production.Handed over
Your team owns the code, the runbooks and the platform.Want to learn more about our current leadership, research, and models?
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