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.