Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Check Size
$500K – $3.0M
Portfolio
2+ companies
Team
5 partners
Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0Investment Thesis
Early-stage fund focusing on defense, aerospace, and dual-use hardware systems, particularly those with national security applications.
How Defiance Ventures invests
Defiance Ventures is a vc firm based in Washington D.C.. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other.
Defiance Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment.
Defiance Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including Epirus, Hermeus.
Meet the Team
AH
Andrew Hunter
Managing Partner
DefenseTech
Aerospace
Industry Focus
Invests In
Other
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
EP
Epirus
DefenseTech
HE
Hermeus
Aerospace
How to pitch Defiance Ventures
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Andrew Hunter, Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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