Hi 👋 Welcome to HBE.

HBE is a marketing technology and revenue technology consulting and investment practice.

We help folks at the intersection of product, sales, marketing and engineering use technology to build world class systems (stacks). 🥞

HBE Ventures started as a mobile-first, growth engineering agency back in 2017 that helped top brands in mobile growth, SDK implementation, technical project management, mobile advertising, performance marketing, product strategy, and startup operations and scaleability for engineering driven teams.

In addition to consulting and investing, HBE has also sold IP to mParticle (”The Growth Practice”) and Reforge (”The Marketing Technology Academy”).

HBE now operates as the owner and operator of a few small Virginia businesses in education software, financial planning & analysis, remote drone operations, and marketing consulting.

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At a glance …

Today we help marketing and product leaders understand, implement, and leverage technology to solve business problems.

→ Take HBE GM Austin Hay’s martech course on Reforge or Maven

→ Subscribe to the systems mafia newsletter

→ Connect on LinkedIn

Past Clients

We have 10 years of experience across a wide range of clients by size, stage, maturity and technology stack complexity.

Clients

Investments

Over the years, we’ve made more than 15 investments and 3 exits across martech, revtech and related businesses. We invest in great people with bold ideas.

Investments

Get in Touch

You can email Austin directly or reach out on LinkedIn.

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We are not providing full service client engagements, but do engage with folks from time to time to support in an advisory capacity. Engagements are typically limited to an hour a week, or are conducted as one day workshops.

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We manage a list of top martech and revtech talent. Want to be added? Get in touch.

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