About Hanzo

Hanzo is an agentic operating system for business, at work since 2014. What shipping for hundreds of venture-funded startups taught us is what Hanzo's AI is built on.

What we have built

• 2014. Hanzo was founded as Crowdstart, a crowdfunding and commerce platform; its first commit landed on 2014-09-29, and it has been Go-native since October 2014. Our first customer that year was SKULLY, "the fastest fully-funded campaign on Indiegogo, raising $1 million in about 45 hours" (TechCrunch). AI and machine learning have been in our commercial work since that year.
• 2016. Crowdstart became Hanzo, adding blockchain and AI-native everything.
• 2017. We built the first blockchain-native commerce platform. The Unikrn ICO raised over 120,000 ETH (Crunchbase News; our part). Hanzo joined Techstars '17 (Hanzo Blog, 2017-06-08; Startland News, 2017-10-10).
• 2019. GPT models in commercial use.
• 2020. Damon Motorcycles launched at CES on our AI-generated ads: $8.4M of motorcycles sold in 30 days, at a 541:1 return on ad spend (case study).
• The portfolio. Hundreds of venture-funded startups, with clients funded by Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Techstars and other tier-1 venture firms. Billions in client revenue. Two companies taken past 100 million users. Two that went public on Nasdaq in 2024: Damon Motorcycles (Norton Rose Fulbright) and Triller (Nasdaq).

The full timeline, with its case studies and press, is at hanzo.ai/about.

People

• Antje Worring, CEO (LinkedIn)
• Zach Kelling, CTO (LinkedIn, GitHub)

Talk to us

• Everything else: hanzo.ai/contact, or [email protected]. Sales: [email protected]. Security: [email protected].
• Investors: [email protected].
• Building with an agent: Agents: start here.