Defiance Ventures
Defiance Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Washington D.C. investing in Other. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$3.0M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 5 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other
- HQ
- Washington D.C.
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-08-20
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $3.0M
2+ companies
5 partners
Investment 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.
Partners & Team
Andrew Hunter
Managing Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
Epirus
Hermeus
- •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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