Summary
David Awad is a managing partner and technical due diligence specialist who blends engineering, law, and venture investing across hard-tech, web3, AI, and cybersecurity. With 11 years of experience, he has led engineering teams, built deal-sourcing and investment tooling from scratch, and underwrites code, contract, and capital-structure risk for VC and PE investments. He pairs an MS in Computer Science and a JD with hands-on product and CTO experience—shipping NFT and web3 products, redesigning legacy systems during acquisitions, and improving developer workflows. An active contributor to technical documentation (including improvements to a widely used intermediate Python repo), he also shapes AI policy at IEEE and mentors startups across MENA through angel networks. Practical, interdisciplinary, and comfortable toggling between boardrooms, codebases, and legal drafts, he uniquely translates technical risk into investable opportunities.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Musical Theater, High School Diploma Musical Theater at Edison High School
Nanodegree - Self Driving Car Engineering Artificial Intelligence / Robotics / Computer Vision / Machine Learning , Nanodegree - Self Driving Car Engineering Artificial Intelligence / Robotics / Computer Vision / Machine Learning at Udacity
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Physics at Rutgers University
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Juris Doctorate Law & Jurisprudence, Juris Doctorate Law & Jurisprudence at Northwestern California University School of Law
English, Arabic