Yaron Ashkenazi
Founder and Managing Partner @ Awz Ventures Inc.
Toronto, Canada
Yaron Ashkenazi is a seed investor at Awz Ventures Inc. in Toronto focused on Cyber Security and Machine Learning. Yaron Ashkenazi is the Founder & Managing Partner at Awz Ventures Inc. He attended University of East London School of Law and Social Sciences.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 71%
Last updated:
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Industries Yaron Ashkenazi invests in
Stages Yaron Ashkenazi invests in
Countries Yaron Ashkenazi invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 5 (36%)
- Machine Learning 4 (29%)
- Security 3 (21%)
- Software 3 (21%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (21%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (43%)
- Funding Round 3 (21%)
- Series A 2 (14%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
- Series C 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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CyberRidge
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CyberRidge is a deep-tech cybersecurity firm that develops photonic encryption to protect data privacy. | $10M / Seed / Oct 28, 2025 | |
Promise Bio
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Promise Bio develops a virtual AI platform that helps to identify multiple Post-Translational Modifications in proteins from a single blood sample. It helps to cure chronic diseases. | $8.3M / Seed / Oct 23, 2024 | |
NanoPass Technologies
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NanoPass is continuously engaged in joint clinical development with top pharmaceutical companies, to demonstrate the benefits of its technology for various indications. | $4M / Seed / Jul 15, 2024 | |
DeepKeep
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DeepKeep safeguards artificial intelligence with AI-native security and trustworthiness from the R&D phase of machine learning models through to deployment, covering risk assessment, prevention, detection and mitigation. Only AI-native security, built itself with generative AI, can protect the complexity and innovation speed of diverse sourcedomains, models and datasets. DeepKeep's AI security promotes secure, unbiased, error-free, transparent, explainable and trustworthy AI solutions for vision data models, LLM and tabular models. | $10M / Seed / May 01, 2024 | |
KTrust
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At KTrust, we redefine Kubernetes (K8s) security. Mastering K8s attack flows, we uncover innovative paths, validate real exposures, and automate mitigation for your unique ecosystem. Our K8s-native Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) approach blends CVEs, MITRE, and unique K8s attack flows, ensuring K8s-first businesses stay ahead ofevolving threats. Our platform offers comprehensive K8s Risk Prioritization, Breach and Attack Simulation, and Ransomware Protection – all consolidated in one place. We guarantee the security and validation of your K8s exposure ecosystem. | $5.3M / Seed / Feb 14, 2024 | |
Pentera
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Pentera provides an automated penetration-testing platform that assesses and reduces corporate cybersecurity risks.By applying the Hacker’s perspective, the software identifies, analyzes, and remediates cyber defense vulnerabilities. Security officers and service providers use its platform to perform continuous machine-based penetration tests andimprove their immunity against cyberattacks across their organizational networks.The Petah Tiqva, HaMerka-based company was founded by Arik Faingold and Arik Liberzon in 2015. | $150M / Series C / Jan 11, 2022 | |
DeepCube
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DeepCube is an information technology company that features a proprietary platform that generates neural networks that use processing power and memory. It provides consulting services to its clients for the whole process of training and deployment of deep learning models on edge devices. The company's patented technology is the first to bepurpose-built for the deployment of deep learning models on data centers and intelligent edge devices. Its proprietary framework can be deployed on top of any existing hardware, resulting in drastic speed improvement and memory reduction.DeepCube was established in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $7M / Series A / Sep 22, 2020 | |
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Pentera
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Pentera provides an automated penetration-testing platform that assesses and reduces corporate cybersecurity risks.By applying the Hacker’s perspective, the software identifies, analyzes, and remediates cyber defense vulnerabilities. Security officers and service providers use its platform to perform continuous machine-based penetration tests andimprove their immunity against cyberattacks across their organizational networks.The Petah Tiqva, HaMerka-based company was founded by Arik Faingold and Arik Liberzon in 2015. | $25M / Series B / Sep 09, 2020 | |
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Pentera
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Pentera provides an automated penetration-testing platform that assesses and reduces corporate cybersecurity risks.By applying the Hacker’s perspective, the software identifies, analyzes, and remediates cyber defense vulnerabilities. Security officers and service providers use its platform to perform continuous machine-based penetration tests andimprove their immunity against cyberattacks across their organizational networks.The Petah Tiqva, HaMerka-based company was founded by Arik Faingold and Arik Liberzon in 2015. | $25M / Series B / Aug 13, 2020 | |
Corsight AI
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Corsight AI is dedicated to creating industry-leading facial recognition technology with unrivaled speed, accuracy and privacy. The technology is powered by Autonomous AI®, the most advanced artificial intelligence system developed by top AI researchers and backed by more than 250 patents.Our mission is to radically enhance the world of facialrecognition technologies while holding ourselves to the highest ethical standards in personal privacy protection. We provide facial recognition solutions for the most challenging conditions to empower organizations with maximum safety while preserving the privacy of others. Corsight AI works with enterprise clients and government agencies in a variety of industries including aviation, law enforcement, retail, entertainment and more.Corsight AI is headquartered in Israel, with offices in the US and UK and operations around the world. | $5M / Seed / Apr 26, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
Blackstone
5 deals together
Blackstone Innovations Investments
2 deals together
Insight Partners
2 deals together
Arkin Capital
1 deal together
AstraZeneca
1 deal together
ATOORO FUND
1 deal together
About Awz Ventures Inc.
Awz HLS Investment Fund I LP is a Canadian pioneering Homeland Security technology venture capital fund. Awz HLS Fund invests in emerging and growing Israeli companies that have developed leading-edge cyber security, intelligence, or physical security technologies from Israel, a global leader in these sectors.Awz HLS Fund’s executives andadvisors are among the most senior experts in this space on a global scale, with the ability to recruit the most promising investment opportunities based on their vast networks and experience in Israel.Awz HLS Fund's experienced and passionate team includes former senior executives from Canadian and Israeli intelligence and security agencies (Mossad and ISA), and global business and financial experts.
Awz Ventures Inc. Contacts
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Yaron Ashkenazi
Founder and Managing Partner
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Jonathan Karten
Principal | M&A, Capital Strategy
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FAQ
What does Yaron Ashkenazi invest in?
Yaron Ashkenazi invests primarily in Cyber Security, Machine Learning and Security startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Yaron Ashkenazi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Yaron Ashkenazi closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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