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What does Defy invest in?
Defy invests most often at Seed and Series A (86% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Social Impact, Impact and Social Good.
Defy highlights
- 01
2 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Seed and Series A: 86% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $12M
What they do
We fund the future by backing exceptional early-stage entrepreneurs.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $3.0M – $10M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- Social ImpactImpactSocial Good
- Based in
- Woodside, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first16 appearances
- 2026
2 rounds
- Aug
- May
- 2025
2 rounds
- Jul
- May
- 2024
2 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- 2023
1 round
- May
- 2020
1 round
- Sept
- 2019
1 round
- Oct
- 2018
6 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Jun
- Apr
- Feb
- 2017
1 round
- Dec
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
NFNeil Francis SequeiraManager of Defy Partners Management, LLCiForm ADV
We also hold 6 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 the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$1.2Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- DEFY Partners Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 290048
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 1 we have independently watched raise
Investor Portal
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.