HAAWK Lands at Number 785 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Ranking of the Fastest-Growing Companies in America
Attributes 811% Revenue Growth to the continued proliferation of user-generated video content
Los Angeles, CA, August 16, 2022 — HAAWK, Inc. (“HAAWK”) today announced it ranked number 785 on the 2022 Inc. 5000, a ranking of the 5000 fastest-growing companies in the United States of America. HAAWK achieved 811% 3-year revenue growth to achieve this milestone.
HAAWK chief executive officer, Ryan Born, credits the continued proliferation of user-generated content (UGC) with the company’s 811% revenue growth. He said, “Capturing more watch time than ever before, UGC remains a high growth segment within both media production and consumption. Music remains a primary focus and integral building block for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other UGC platforms. Since inception, HAAWK has been committed to building tools and services that assist music producers, labels, publishers, and video creators with UGC monetization. Our dedication to the creator community will continue to deliver growth.”
About HAAWK, Inc.
HAAWK is a media software and services company specializing in managing and monetizing the copyrights of independent music, film and television catalogs. The company provides copyright monitoring and monetization tools to assist creators in maximizing earnings on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other UGC platforms. Signature services include best-in-class YouTube Content ID and Facebook Rights Manager administration, SaaS products for independent video creators to legally and affordably access copyright free music, and digital music distribution. HAAWK’s roster of clients includes independent music producers, record labels, publishers, songwriters, composers, TV/film studios and production music libraries.
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.
I recently connected with fellow entrepreneur Ryan Tansom for an interview on his podcast, Life After Business, to talk about my entrepreneurial journey – the failures, the successes, fundraising, changing business models, finding your stride, and more. You can listen to the full discussion here:
and here’s a nice summary (copy / pasted from the GEXP Collaborative Life After Business website):
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The co-founder of HAAWK, Inc. Ryan Born joins me for today’s episode. Before HAAWK, Ryan was the founder and CEO of AudioMicro, Inc. AudioMicro was a media rights management company. Its most successful venture was AdRev. Ryan explains what that service was and why he felt it worked.
We take the journey with Ryan through AudioMicro’s beginnings, the pivots, the changes in the media rights industry, and what life was like after AudioMicro changed owners. This episode is a great example of the struggle and the hustle many entrepreneurs face on a daily basis.
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.
I’m pleased to announce that as part of Inc. Magazine’s 2015 Inc. 500 ranking of the USA’s fastest growing private companies, AudioMicro, Inc. (including our 4 brands – AdRev, DashGo, AudioMicro, & ImageCollect) was named as the USA’s 5th fastest growing media company (and #162 overall). This accolade is based on our actual revenue growth over the past 3 years, with revenue last year growing to $13.4 million. It’s the 3rd year in a row that we’ve made the Inc. 500 (we were #2 in media in both 2014 and 2013) and if the first part of this year is any indicator, we’re in a solid position to make the list for the 4th straight time next year. A special thank you goes out to our customers, clients, partners, and most importantly to our amazing team for all of your hard work through the years.
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 2024. He is also the Founder & Former CEO of AdRev (AudioMicro, Inc.), a VC backed rights management and content licensing network, which was acquired by Zealot Networks in 2014-15 for $25M cash and which 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.
