DEFTA Partners

DEFTA Partners investment thesis

Founder George Hara is an archaeologist and successful entrepreneur. While he was a graduate student at Stanford University in 1981, George founded a successful startup developing fiber optics display systems. He then established DEFTA Partners, under which he has funded and led many early-stage technology companies in the US, Europe and Israel to success, including the first gene therapy company Viagene, the first antisense therapy company Isis Pharmaceuticals, and the first bioinformatics company Arris Pharmaceuticals. He has recently launched DEFTA Healthcare Technologies to fund and grow technology companies that are enabling every person to lead a healthy life until his/her final moment. In the Japanese government, George has held roles of Senior Advisor to the Minister of Finance fro

DEFTA Partners team (4)

Partners and principals at DEFTA Partners:

• Elona Baum — sweet spot $1.8M
• Masahide (Masa) Isono — sweet spot $1.8M
• Kyoko Watanabe — sweet spot $1.8M
• Jingfei (Jennifer) Yu — sweet spot $1.8M

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