Hi 👋 Welcome to HBE.

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

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

HBE Ventures first started as a 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.

HBE has also exited subsidiary companies and IP twice 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 …

• Founded 2017
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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.

Get in Touch

You can email Austin directly or reach out on LinkedIn.

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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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