Awz Ventures
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Awz Ventures is an investment firm that manages over $500M across multiple funds, focusing on security and intelligence technologies. It invests from inception to exit, with a hands-on approach to support portfolio companies.
Awz Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2016. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series B, in security, intelligence, cyber and deep-tech. $500M under management and 35 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Awz Ventures invests solely in commercial & defensive applications of security & intelligence technologies.”
— Awz Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Israel, global
- Founded
- 2016
- Assets under management
- $500M
- Portfolio
- 35 companies
Team, as Awz Ventures publishes it
- Yaron Ashkenazi Founder & Managing Partner
- Edward Sonshine Founding Partner & Chairman of the Board
- Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper Partner & President of Advisory Committee
- Aviv Kohavi Executive Partner
- Richard Fadden Former CSIS Director
- Tamir Pardo Former Director, Mossad
- Buck Revell Former FBI Associate Deputy Director
- Richard Nesbitt Strategic Advisor, Financial Services
- Ronit Atad Strategic Advisor
- Prof. Jacob Frenkel Strategic Advisor
- Michael Loparco Strategic Advisor
- Prof. Leonardo Leiderman Strategic Advisor
Names and roles exactly as listed on awzventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 11 co-investors found.
- Entrée Capital 2 shared companies: classiq.io, magnusmetal.com
- Neva SGR 1 shared company: classiq.io
- Norwest Venture Partners 1 shared company: classiq.io
- Samsung Next 1 shared company: classiq.io
- Italian Angels for Growth 1 shared company: filo.systems
- Startup Wise Guys 1 shared company: octopus-app.com
- NextLeap Ventures 1 shared company: newphotonics.com
- PureTerra Ventures 1 shared company: sigasec.com
- Delta-V Capital, LLC 1 shared company: pentera.io
- Evolution Equity Partners 1 shared company: pentera.io
and 1 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Awz Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.awzventures.com/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.awzventures.com/our-fundslayer, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.awzventures.com/our-portfoliosectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.awzventures.com/our-teampeople
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Record 6311 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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