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David Hawkins is the Founder of Hawk Equity, a New York-based investment firm specializing in growth stage technology companies. Hawk focuses on transformative companies in software, services, and internet that Hawk can help scale by bringing public market expertise and private equity style value creation. Prior to founding Hawk, David was a Principal at Glade Brook Capital Partners, a TMT-focused investment fund with both a public long/short strategy and a private growth equity strategy. At Glade Brook, David invested in several premier growth tech companies. Previously, David worked in private equity at Providence Equity Partners and began his career in investment banking at Citi. He earned a B.B.A. in Finance and B.A. in Plan II Honors from The University of Texas at Austin.
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- • 2,490 investors hold the Founder role in VCSift. David Hawkins is one of them.
- • 10,621 investors are based in New York, New York, United States.
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