Defined
Venture capital · Canada · North America
Defined is a venture firm that backs founders building at the frontier of AI, describing itself as a first believer and strategic partner. It supports portfolio companies with product vision, design partners, go-to-market playbooks, technical hiring and investor introductions.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurityHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsartificial intelligenceai infrastructureautonomous systemsquantum computingbiotechenergy
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Or find every investor that fitsDefined lists 13 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 57% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (32%), Cybersecurity (18%) and Healthcare & Biotech (18%). 67% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Bison Ventures, Future Ventures and Transpose Platform.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Defined, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 57% |
| Series A | 43% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 33th | 13 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 74th | 57% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 57th | 32% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 32% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 18% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 18% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 9% | 6% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Bison Ventures | 3 |
| Future Ventures | 2 |
| Transpose Platform | 2 |
| Alix Ventures | 1 |
| Alumni Ventures | 1 |
| Aviso Ventures | 1 |
| Catapult Ventures | 1 |
| Continuum Health Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers13100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Defined head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Defined| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 22 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 2 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 15 Jan 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Jul 2025 | Series A | |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Defined
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Defined's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
13 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D-Wave helps organizations move forward with complex computational challenges using quantum computing | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company is building autonomous machines that can do anything humanity wants | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Kosli provides governance infrastructure for AI software development life cycles | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Mar 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Locus Robotics provides warehouse automation solutions using robots and artificial intelligence | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Mueon builds data center scale infrastructure for next gen AI workloads | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Oct 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Mythic develops and manufactures artificial intelligence products, including analog processing units and AI platforms, for various industries such as automotive, robotics, and enterprise. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Outpost is building the AI layer for the largest unmodeled variable in human biology: the microbiome. | Healthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Pinch AI provides fraud and abuse prevention solutions for ecommerce platforms | E-commerce & MarketplacesCybersecurity | Jan 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Quandri automates administrative work for insurance agencies using AI | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| The company provides development infrastructure for creating medical devices, such as surgical robots and orthopedic implants. | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company develops digital pathology technology to analyze tissue samples and provide quantitative biomarker data from routine H&E slides. | Healthcare & Biotech | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Vivodyne trains biological superintelligence to transform therapeutic hypotheses into medicines using lab-grown human tissues and AI platforms. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Zyphra develops and provides cloud-based artificial intelligence products and solutions, including optimization engines and customization studios. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- definedvc.com
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Mar 2025
- Companies checked
- 13
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