Kyoko Watanabe

DEFTA Partners 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 t

Sector and stage focus

• Seed: Pharmaceuticals, BioTech, Health IT, Health & Hospital Services
• Series A: BioTech, Pharmaceuticals, Health IT, Health & Hospital Services
• general: San Francisco Bay Area

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