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15About Defiance Ventures
Defiance Ventures is a venture builder focused on B2B enterprise technology companies. It combines capital and early stage investment expertise with real world capabilities spanning marketing, branding, sales, application development, and cloud architecture to help its portfolio of technology companies to disrupt their respective industries.

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Aug 4, 2021
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Defiance Ventures Investments
15 Investments
Defiance Ventures has made 15 investments. Their latest investment was in Suberra as part of their Seed VC on October 10, 2022.

Defiance Ventures Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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10/7/2022 | Seed VC | Suberra | $2.7M | Yes | 1 | |
9/17/2021 | Series A | LayerZero Labs | $6.3M | Yes | 9 | |
7/30/2021 | Seed VC - II | Lucid Drone Technologies | Yes | 3 | ||
5/21/2021 | Series A - II | |||||
5/14/2021 | Seed VC |
Date | 10/7/2022 | 9/17/2021 | 7/30/2021 | 5/21/2021 | 5/14/2021 |
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Round | Seed VC | Series A | Seed VC - II | Series A - II | Seed VC |
Company | Suberra | LayerZero Labs | Lucid Drone Technologies | ||
Amount | $2.7M | $6.3M | |||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 1 | 9 | 3 |
Defiance Ventures Acquisitions
2 Acquisitions
Defiance Ventures acquired 2 companies. Their latest acquisition was Tavve on March 31, 2020.
Date | Investment Stage | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Total Funding | Note | Sources |
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3/31/2020 | Series B | $13.5M | Acq - Fin | 1 | ||
3/19/2020 |
Date | 3/31/2020 | 3/19/2020 |
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Investment Stage | Series B | |
Companies | ||
Valuation | ||
Total Funding | $13.5M | |
Note | Acq - Fin | |
Sources | 1 |
Defiance Ventures Team
2 Team Members
Defiance Ventures has 2 team members, including current Founder, Chief Executive Officer, John Espey.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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John Espey | Stratifyd, Levvel, Reward Summit, Nexgrid, and Tallan | Founder, Chief Executive Officer | Current |
Name | John Espey | |
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Work History | Stratifyd, Levvel, Reward Summit, Nexgrid, and Tallan | |
Title | Founder, Chief Executive Officer | |
Status | Current |
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