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What does DEFTA Partners invest in?
DEFTA Partners invests most often at Series A and Series B (82% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Healthcare, Ict and Biotechnology.
DEFTA Partners highlights
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11 rounds on record
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Mostly Series A and Series B: 82% of its rounds
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3 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Since the 1980s, DEFTA Partners has identified, nurtured, and funded companies with innovative technologies.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $500K – $3.0M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- HealthcareIctBiotechnology
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first11 appearances
- 2019
4 rounds
- Nov
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- 2018
1 round
- Jan
- 2015
1 round
- Aug
- 2007
1 round
- Sept
- 2006
1 round
- Feb
- 2005
1 round
- Feb
- 2004
1 round
- Mar
- 2003
1 round
- Feb
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
GHGeorge HaraMR. HARA IS THE FUND MANAGERiFiling they signed
We also hold 5 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
1 of 9 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed3 in all
FortinetListed$156MNov 2009
MeeVeeBought by LiveUniverseUndisclosedMay 2008
BroadWare TechnologiesBought by CiscoUndisclosedMay 2007
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.