ADVISORY

Clark Landry

Entrepreneur-in-Residence

About Clark
Clark Landry is the managing partner of Hawke Ventures, a venture capital fund that focuses on adtech, martech, and ecommerce enablement companies at the pre-seed and seed stage. He was previously an entrepreneur and angel investor with investments in over 100 early-stage technology companies (including The Trade Desk, Scopely, EdgeCast Networks, CREXi) and with exits in companies with cumulative valuations of over $60 billion.
Clark co-founded Inspectiv, a crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, in 2018. Prior to founding Inspectiv, Clark co-founded Maple Media, a private-equity backed roll-up of mobile apps, where he raised $30 million from private equity investors. Clark was co-founder and Executive Chairman at SHIFT, a developer of social media marketing software, which was acquired by Brand Networks in 2015. Clark was co-founder and CEO at Top Level Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines), a publicly-traded company that owns, operates, and provides registry services for new top level domains, and co-founded TagWorld, a social networking company, that was acquired by Viacom. Clark was a founding investor of CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace, Adconion Media Group, a digital media advertising company (acquired by Amobee), Traffic Marketplace, an online advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), and Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel).

Education

Bachelors Degree in Economics from Yale University