Likely active: new deal Dec 2024 Verified 5 Nov 2026
Defy Partners
Woodside, CA early-stage venture firm backing founders building enduring companies.
- Type
- VC firm
- Location
- Woodside, California, United States
- Stages
- Seed
- Fund size / AUM
- $300M Defy Partners III (Form D offering, 2021); $1.23B gross private fund assets (Form ADV; private funds: 5, of which venture capital: 5)
- Latest fund or filing
- 22 Oct 2021
- Website
- defy.vc
Contacts on file
For Defy Partners, the paid file holds: 8 named decision-makers with roles; firm contact email (domain checked).
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Notable investments
Airspace TechnologiesApploiHonorlockNautilus BiotechnologySecurly
Sources
- www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1889434/000188943421000002/
- adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/290048
- defy.vc
- defy.vc/companies/
- defy.vc/contact/
- defy.vc/team/
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