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Introducing Witz Ventures




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INTRODUCING WITZ VENTURES



CREATING RELATABLE BUSINESS CONTENT. ADVISING INNOVATIVE STARTUPS. INVESTING IN
FOUNDERS WHO ARE REIMAGINING COMMERCE.




Thanks for taking the time to learn about Witz! We are a team of content
creators, fintech advisors and early-stage investors.

  TikTok


Substack


Instagram


LinkedIn



Austin Hankwitz  Co-Founder & CEO | Nashville, Tennessee | Univ. of Tennessee
(Finance) | LinkedIn

In 2020, Austin began posting personal finance and investing videos on TikTok -
drawing from experiences as a Strategic Financial Analyst for Amedisys (AMED).
He quickly grew a dedicated community of over 900,000 followers across platforms
and thousands of subscribers to his long-form written analysis. Austin has been
recognized as one of the “leading voices for common sense investing and
financial literacy” on social media. He’s been featured on Bloomberg, Business
Insider, CNBC, Market Watch, New York Times and more.


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Christian Blackwell Co-Founder & COO | West Palm Beach, Florida | Univ. of
Virginia (Commerce) | LinkedIn

Christian was the Mark Boice Germain Scholar & Warwick D. Johnston Global
Scholar at UVA's McIntire School and studied extensively in Valencia, Spain and
Copenhagen, Denmark. He began his career as a Management Consultant for PwC’s
Pricing & Profitability practice. While there, he worked with companies ranging
from professional sports franchises to the Fortune 500 to enhance product
offerings and conduct revenue management through customer transformation
advisory. In his free time, Christian became a DJ that performed in 17 cities in
the U.S. and had a residency in Denmark’s largest nightlife venue. In early
2020, he began working with Austin to expand his online reach, foster
relationships with early-stage startups, and build a creator-centric business.
He now heads content ideation, portfolio management, and capital deployment.


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Arielle Pennington  Advisor | New York, New York | Hofstra University
(Communications) | LinkedIn

Arielle Pennington is Global Head of Communications at 21Shares, the world's
largest provider of crypto exchange traded products. Pennington is the company's
first head of communications. Pennington was most recently Director of
Communications at the world's largest robo-advisor, Betterment. Pennington was
at Betterment for eight years and had a crucial role in building the
communications team from the ground up. She helped the company grow from $100
million to $30 billion in assets. Before that, she was an account executive at
Hill+Knowlton Strategies. At 21Shares, Pennington leads communications and PR
efforts globally as the firm continues expanding to new markets and geographies.


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Chris Camillo  Advisor | Dallas, Texas | Southern Methodist University (Finance)
| LinkedIn

A pioneer in contextual data analysis, Chris is featured in Jack Schwager’s
“Unknown Market Wizards” as one of the world’s top performing self-directed
investors. In 2006 he applied a social data arbitrage trading strategy to invest
$20k in the stock market, and produced $30 million in trading profits over the
following 14-year period reflecting 68% annualized portfolio returns. In 2011,
he wrote the book Laughing at Wall Street: How I Beat the Pros at Investing,
published by St. Martin Press. In 2015, Chris launched TickerTags — known for
predicting the Brexit result in 2016. Chris then sold TickerTags to Jefferies
Financial Group. Beyond investing in the public markets, Chris is one of the
most active early stage investors in Texas. Exits where Chris played a strategic
management role include e-Rewards Research (Dynata), eCarList (DealerTrack/Cox
Automotive), Order My Gear (Susquehanna Growth), TickerTags (Jefferies), and
Fixd Repair (Angies List). Chris is certified at the Expert Level in Consumer
Research by the Marketing Research Association (MRA) and is a regular public
speaker on predictive effectiveness of contextual data analysis.


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 PORTFOLIO


Investing alongside 776 Ventures, Accel, Dorm Room Fund, First Round, Forerunner
Ventures, General Catalyst, Mantis VC, Norwest Ventures, Serena Ventures, Tiger
Global Management, Upfront Ventures, Y-Combinator, and individuals like 3LAU,
Adam Nash, Biz Stone, Chris Camillo, Graham Stephan, Huey Lin, Jared Leto, Jimmy
Donaldson (Mr. Beast), Justin Kan, Kevin Mayer, Josh Richards, Nas Daily, Steven
Chen, and Whitney Wolfe Herd

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Portfolio Companies (Publicly Announced)

Beacons
beacons.ai/
Series A
San Francisco
Bracket
usebracket.com/
Seed
Los Angeles
CATCH'N Ice Cream
prnewswire.com/new…6.html
Pre-seed
New York
Creative Juice
getjuice.com/
Series A
San Francisco
Draftly
draft.ly/
Pre-seed
New York
Finary
about.finary.io/
Seed
New York
Flahmingo
flahmingo.com/
Pre-seed
Alberta
GoodCash
goodcash.com/
Seed
San Francisco
Grifin
grifin.com/
Seed
Tampa
Herd
herdsocial.co/
Pre-seed
San Francisco
Influent
influentgen.com/
Pre-seed
New York
IntellPro
intellpro.com/
Series A
Greenwich
Karat Financial
trykarat.com/
Series B
Los Angeles
LevelFields
levelfields.ai
Seed
Washington D.C.
Modern Mammals
modernmammals.com/
Seed
New York
MoneyLion
moneylion.com
NYSE: ML
New York
Nurse Wallet
nursewallet.co
Pre-seed
Boston
Public.com
public.com/
Series D
Copenhagen/New York
Quantbase
getquantbase.com/
Pre-seed
Richmond
Sparrowfi
sparrowfi.com/
Seed
Los Angeles
Squiggly
squiggly.school/
Pre-seed
Charlottesville
Stakeholder Labs
stakeholderlabs.com/
Pre-seed
Los Angeles
Stan
stan.store/
Seed
Los Angeles
Yotta
withyotta.com
Series A
New York
Zurp
zurp.com/
Seed
Miami



 THE DAY-TO-DAY


In early 2021, Austin and Christian both quit their jobs to pursue this passion
full-time.

They're currently:

Creating content for Austin’s TikTok

Publishing thoughtful analysis to the Rate of Return Substack newsletter

Interviewing CEOs, founders, tech leaders and more on the Rate of Return Podcast
(Apple | Google | Spotify | Youtube)

Co-hosting the Exposed Wealth Podcast alongside King Bach (Instagram)

Developing the Creator Network of MALKA Media / MoneyLion

Consulting other creators on how to build thriving businesses, and bringing them
$1MM+ in brand deals since 2021

Actively advising portfolio companies

Working with Fortune 500 companies to help them better deploy their advertising
budgets

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LET'S CHAT.


Reach out to the following email to connect:

christian@witz.vc





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