Texas Venture Partners Overview
Texas Venture Partners (TVP) is a Texas-based VC firm that invests in early-stage defense tech startups and helps penetrate the US market. Founded by two Austin-based entrepreneurs, Canadian businessman Lorne Abony, and Israeli-born Tal Shmueli, they are hands-on investors whose check size ranges between $1- 4M. The fund focuses on software and software-enhanced hardware in TRL 5 or higher.
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Across its 12-week duration, 10 companies will work with ex-DoD leaders and industry experts to offer regulatory and corporate readiness, expansion strategies, private sessions with industry experts, and storytelling and marketing insights.
Texas Venture Partners (TVP), in collaboration with Capital Factory and Q-Branch, has launched a 12-week DoD Readiness Program aimed at helping Israeli defense tech startups break into the U.S. market. The program offers regulatory and corporate readiness, expansion strategies, and private sessions with industry experts. It culminates in a Demo Day where startups pitch to U.S. defense investors and military stakeholders. Texas is becoming a hub for defense innovation, offering infrastructure and talent for Israeli founders to scale in the U.S. market. Applications for the first cohort are open, with the program expected to launch in March 2025.
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New $50 million Texas fund to scout for battle-tested Israeli defense tech
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| Website | www.texasventurepartners.com/ |
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Across its 12-week duration, 10 companies will work with ex-DoD leaders and industry experts to offer regulatory and corporate readiness, expansion strategies, private sessions with industry experts, and storytelling and marketing insights.
Texas Venture Partners (TVP), in collaboration with Capital Factory and Q-Branch, has launched a 12-week DoD Readiness Program aimed at helping Israeli defense tech startups break into the U.S. market. The program offers regulatory and corporate readiness, expansion strategies, and private sessions with industry experts. It culminates in a Demo Day where startups pitch to U.S. defense investors and military stakeholders. Texas is becoming a hub for defense innovation, offering infrastructure and talent for Israeli founders to scale in the U.S. market. Applications for the first cohort are open, with the program expected to launch in March 2025.
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New $50 million Texas fund to scout for battle-tested Israeli defense tech
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· ortalw@sncentral.org · Manual · 2024-07-29 09:48:55.000000
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· ortalw@sncentral.org · Manual · 2024-07-29 09:48:55.000000
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· ts@texasventurepartners.com · Manual · 2025-09-15 16:25:54.000000
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| BI Verification | Ortal Wein |
| Crunchbase | texas-venture-partners |
| Creator | Ortal Wein |
| Creator email | ortalw@sncentral.org |
| Last updater | Ayelet Levi Shinebox |
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| Last update | 2024-08-28T00:00:00.000Z |
| Created | 2024-07-29T00:00:00.000Z |