I’m proud to announce that HAAWK has landed at No. 100 on the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing tech companies in North America, based on revenue growth since 2017.
HAAWK is committed to building tools and services that assist music producers, labels, and publishers with YouTube Content ID and Facebook Rights Manager administration and monetization. Our exceptional team’s dedication to the creator community will continue to deliver growth in 2022 and beyond.
HAAWK monitors, monetizes, and enforces copyrights on user-generated video and audio platforms (YouTube Content ID, Facebook, Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and more). We’re building fresh technology to help bring accountability, transparency, and newfound revenue to today’s music and video rights holders. HAAWK was co-founded by myself and Ben Barger, an aeronautical engineer and operations specialist who headed up operations at our previous company, AdRev/AudioMicro, Inc..
HAAWK just closed it’s first round of funding, a $2.5M series seed round led by some of Southern California’s top VC firms and HAAWK recently acquired the assets of Dart Music, a music distribution and metadata company to help jumpstart our product offering and expand our distribution reach.
Ryan Born is the Founder & CEO at HAAWK, Inc., which ranked as the USA's #16 fastest growing media company on the 2024 Inc 5000 and was acquired by SESAC Music Group (Blackstone) in late 2024. Prior to HAAWK, Ryan was the Founder & CEO of AdRev (AudioMicro, Inc.), a VC backed rights management and content licensing network, which was acquired by private equity in 2014-15 and today is part of Downtown Music Holdings / FUGA. AdRev ranked as the USA's #5 fastest growing media company on the 2015 Inc. 500 (#162 overall, #5 in LA). Previously, Ryan was an investor in and VP of Finance for WireImage (acquired by Getty Images in '07 for $208M) and an angel investor in NewCondosOnline and InternetMarketingInc. He has been a guest lecturer at Emory University, UCLA, UCSB, Loyola Marymount and various industry conferences and events. Learn More.
