Defy Partners Management

Venture Capital Exempt reporting adviser

Legal name: Defy Partners Management, LLC

Woodside, CA Website LinkedIn

AUM

$1.2B
Private fund assets

Private funds

5
Venture Capital 5

Private fund assets

$1.2B
Gross asset value

Employees

—

Last Form D raise

Dec 2021
Most recent fund filing

From SEC Form ADV filing (filed Mar 24, 2026). View on SEC

Investment focus

As listed in industry directories; may be out of date.

First check
$3.0M
Stages
Series AGrowth
Geographies
USA

People(2)

Owners and executive officers named on the firm's SEC Form ADV.

N
Neil Sequeira
Manager of Defy Partners Management, LLC
Source: SEC Form ADV
P
Purvi Shah
Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Defy Partners Management, LLC
Source: SEC Form ADV

Funds(5)

Private funds reported on Form ADV, with amounts raised from the funds' SEC Form D filings.

FundTypeGross assetsRaised (Form D)InvestorsLast Form DRecency
Defy N, L.P.Venture Capital$4.2M$5.3M3Dec 2021Cold
Defy Partners III, L.P.Venture Capital$220.9M——Oct 2021Cold
Defy Partners Goals I, L.P.Venture Capital$55.7M——Oct 2021Cold
Defy Partners II, L.P.Venture Capital$625.6M$262.0M49Apr 2019Cold
Defy Partners I, L.P.Venture Capital$321.6M$151.0M36Sep 2017Cold

Board seats(1)

Companies whose SEC Form D filings name one of this firm's people as a director, matched by name and office ZIP code.

Genemod
Other TechnologyEdmonds, WADirector: Neil Sequeira
$1.0M raised
Since Aug 2020
SEC Form D

Regulatory identifiers

CRD number
290048
SEC file number
802-111912

Sources