Awz Ventures
awzventures.com Direct investor
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 seed to growth, 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 11 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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
- https://www.awzventures.com/aboutstage_min, stage_max
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Record 6311 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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