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Defy Partners — 2023 Investments

3 investments dated 2023 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

Giadzygiadzy.com𝕏Mar 2023

Giadzy is a lifestyle and e-commerce platform founded by celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis, offering recipes, entertaining and travel tips, videos, and Italian food and kitchen products.

ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerceFoodTechLos Angeles, US

Giada De Laurentiis(Founder)inEric Greenspan(Director)Ana Carolina Grabowsky Seiler C Guerra(Executive Officer)Lindsey Galey(Executive Officer)

BoardDerek Norton(Director)in

Board seatNeil Sequeira· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsBAM VenturesWatertower Ventures Management, Llc

Perplexityperplexity.aiMar 2023

An AI-powered answer engine providing accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to questions.

San Francisco, US

Andrew D. Konwinski(Executive Officer, Director)Dzianis Yarats(Director)Aravind Srinivas Lakshminarayanan(Director, Executive Officer)Aravind Srinivas(Founder)inDenis Yarats(Founder)Andrew Konwinski(Founder)

Co-investors1435 Capital359 Capital7BC Venture CapitalAccelAdvaita CapitalAIX Ventures+61 more

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

KOSHERCO

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.