Hanson Ventures provides the knowledge capital to fuel your venture capital.
Positioned at the intersection between operators and investors, we partner with both to achieve outsized returns.
Servicing Funds & Founders:
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Built for VC & PE partners; Expanding your deal flow and empowering your operators with the necessary tools to ideate bold concepts, test groundbreaking ideas, and scale their ventures.
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Partnering with innovative founders to support the end-to-end lifecycle of a company, from seed to growth.
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Providing a full-service launchpad for spiring founders to ideate, execute, and scale game-changing ventures from concept to market impact. Looking for your next idea? We have some.
Danish Chan | Co-Founder, Untangld International Strategy Studio
“Elli Hanson is a rare talent—creative, strategic, and just all around brilliant. Elli has that extraordinary ability to think at 30,000 feet and 300 feet in the same breath. She has an optimistic and contagious energy that inspires the people around her to lift.”
Get started with Hanson Ventures
Hanson Venture Partner
— for Investors & Funds
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For VC and PE firms seeking a full-service ecosystem of support for their portfolio company founders, we provide operator coaching, resources, network access and more.
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Hanson Venture Partners will bring new investment opportunities, with a unique operator’s perspective and due diligence across a diverse range of investment verticals, industries, and markets.
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Want to bring all that operator knowledge and unique deal flow in-house to make it proprietary to your fund? Let’s talk.
Hanson Venture Studio
— for Startups & Mature Businesses
Our venture studio partners with daring and ingenious founders to support all lifecycles of a startup; from seed to growth.
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Including market and needspace validation, prototyping, testing, customer research, product and service design, packaging and customer experience design.
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Including fundraising, e-commerce design and development, retail strategy and deployment, supply chain and logistics ecosystem, organic and performance marketing, affiliate and PR.
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Including cashflow planning and financial modelling, loyalty and customer retention, customer service ecosystem, global market expansion, and M&A acquisition strategy.
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Including historical and landscape analysis, opportunity identification, brand strategy development and design, PR and marking strategy, relaunch strategy and deployment.
Hanson Venture Incubator
— for Future Founders
Our boutique incubator provides a home for ambitious founders to build with end-to-end ecosystem support throughout the journey. We offer a full-service launchpad for aspiring founders to ideate, test, launch and scale.
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If you have an idea but are not sure where to start, our incubator will help lay out the steps to test and validate your assumptions before taking the leap.
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We have some. We’ve done the hard yards on opportunity analysis and market validation, yielding a few critical opportunities to launch. We’re always on the hunt for the right founder who will launch and run each venture, with our Venture Incubator backing you every step of the way.
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Our incubator membership offers unlimited 1:1 coaching support, roadmap and planning tools, fundraising coaching and global network access.
VENTURES WE’VE BACKED OR BUILT
Flaus
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Tsu Lange Yor
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Prima
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Sense of Self
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Dr. Dri's
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OZO
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Flaus • Tsu Lange Yor • Prima • Sense of Self • Dr. Dri's • OZO •
Kristen Walsh | Business Director, Gander NY
“I’ve encountered few people in my career with the brilliance that Elli Hanson possesses. Her deep understanding of consumer branding, from product development to go-to-market is unparalleled.”
Founding Partner
Elli Hanson is a seasoned operator and investor. As Co-Founder of Flaus, Elli led the design and market launch of the world’s first patented electric flosser, where she drove product, brand, and strategy. Under Elli’s stewardship, Flaus was listed in TIME Magazine Inventions of the Year and has been named one of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas.
Prior to co-founding Flaus, Elli was Global Director of Design Strategy at Ogilvy Worldwide, where she led global client engagement for fortune 200 brands such as IBM, American Express, Starbucks, IHG Hotels, amongst others. Elli also sat within the C-Suite team, leading organizational and systems design mandates and working alongside the global Chief Strategy Officer to design and deploy Ogilvy's transformative OS, which garnered over $45M of global new business in the first 6 months of deployment. At Ogilvy Elli won 25 Cannes Lion Awards (amongst others), was published globally, and was named Forbes 30 Under 30 Marketing & Advertising List Runner-Up (US).
Today, Elli is an Angel Investor to some of the world’s fastest growing brands, and Venture Partner to multiple global funds with over $500M USD AUM.
Fundraising
Organizational Design
Team Management & Leadership
Launch Strategy
Cashflow Planning
Manufacturing
Regulatory
Fundraising Organizational Design Team Management & Leadership Launch Strategy Cashflow Planning Manufacturing Regulatory
Product, Service & Systems Design
Brand & Marketing
Packaging Design
Supply Chain & Operations Logistics
Digital Design
E-Commerce Design & Development
Product, Service & Systems Design Brand & Marketing Packaging Design Supply Chain & Operations Logistics Digital Design E-Commerce Design & Development
Go-To-Market Strategy
Performance Marketing
Product-Market Fit
Montization Strategy
Conversion Optimization
Market Opportunity Analysis
Customer Experience & Research
Go-To-Market Strategy Performance Marketing Product-Market Fit Montization Strategy Conversion Optimization Market Opportunity Analysis Customer Experience & Research
Silicon Beach,
but make it South
Hanson Ventures is located in Burleigh Beach, Australia, with offices in New York, Sydney, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Tel Aviv.
Dubbed “Australia’s Silicon Beach,” the Gold Coast is poised to become Australia’s innovation hub as it attracts top tech talent from around the world to drive innovation in climate, health, entertainment, energy, infrastructure and critical resources. Nestled between the Burleigh Beach Headland and Springbrook Mountain, innovators, founders and funds are flocking to this desirable slice of Australian life to build the world’s next great businesses from paradise.
Get in touch.
hello@hanson.ventures
(213) 235-8072
413 W 14 St
STE 200 #1037
New York, NY 10014