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    defy.vc

    Woodside, California, United StatesFounded 2016

    Defy.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on seed and Series A investments across diverse sectors like enterprise SaaS, fintech, AI, healthcare, and consumer businesses. The firm employs a hands-on strategy, actively partnering with "authentic entrepreneurs" to help them mature, scale, and become industry leaders by providing strategic guidance and significant capital for initial and follow-on funding.

    Their most common stage is seed (48% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $11.0M (across 21 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    23

    Fund Size

    $1.3B

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    3

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    23 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Interface logoInterfaceSeed$3.5MNov 2025
    Birches Health logoBirches HealthSeries A$20MSep 2025
    CRED logoCREDSeed$15MJun 2025
    Hakimo logoHakimoSeries A$10.5MMar 2025
    SSafaraUnknownDec 2024
    Reveal Technology logoReveal TechnologySeries A$11.2MDec 2024
    Writ logoWritSeed$3.8MApr 2024
    VectorShift logoVectorShiftSeed$3MFeb 2024
    SendOwl logoSendOwlSeed$9MFeb 2023
    AArena ClubSeries A$10MDec 2022
    Mother Science logoMother ScienceSeed$6.2MNov 2022
    Craniometrix logoCraniometrixSeed$6MAug 2022
    Novi Connect logoNovi ConnectSeries B$40MFeb 2022
    Fable logoFableSeries A$20MDec 2021
    SendOwl logoSendOwlSeed$4.5MDec 2021
    Hakimo logoHakimoSeed$4MNov 2021
    GGajiGesaSeed$2.5MFeb 2021
    Airspace Technologies logoAirspace TechnologiesSeries B$20MNov 2018
    Owl logoOwlSeries A$18MFeb 2018
    RRocksaltSeed$3.5M
    Beamable logoBeamableSeries B$14M
    Fable logoFableSeries A$7.3M
    GGiadzyUnknown

    Top Co-Investors

    Gaingels3 shared
    M132 shared
    Y Combinator2 shared
    Defy2 shared
    Neotribe1 shared
    Quest1 shared
    Next Billion Ventures1 shared
    Rebel Fund1 shared
    J2 ventures1 shared

    Last updated: 12 April 2026