Defiant
Cristina Lasagni is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in go-to-market strategies, strategic partnerships, and sales leadership within the technology sector. Currently serving as a Go to Market Advisor for Defiant since January 2025 and as a Lead at Leading Cyber Ladies, Cristina previously held key positions at Cloudflare, including VP of Southern Europe and South of Europe and Eastern Europe Sales Director, where responsibilities encompassed managing large deals, strategic planning, coaching teams, and driving revenue growth. Prior roles include Key Account Executive at Dropbox and various sales and account management positions at Cisco, focusing on collaboration solutions. Cristina began their career at Selex-SI as a Bidding Manager and briefly worked as a research scientist. Holding a Master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Università degli Studi di Firenze and Tampere University of Technology, Cristina possesses a robust technical background and a deep understanding of the cybersecurity landscape.
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Defiant
Defiant is a venture capital fund based in London and Lisbon. We focus on B2B SaaS and Fintech and invest in Seed ($1-3m) and Series A ($2-10m) across Europe and occasionally the US. We like technical products, those with complexity, moats and barriers to entry, where we have deep expertise and an ability to add value. We don’t invest pre-revenue or pre-product. We are a team of investors, technologists and builders, who saw first hand how venture could evolve. We are here to push the boundaries of what a traditional VC fund looks like. To question everything, never accept the status quo, and create something different. Our approach is three-fold, at its core a mission to productise venture, by creating a fund where data, technology and deep thematic work are integral to everything we do. Like the companies we invest in, we build products - internally for our team to move faster and make better decisions, and externally to add value to our founders and the wider ecosystem. We have a love for the craft of investing and pride ourselves on deep research, coupled with a data-driven culture. We have a low-volume, high-conviction investment style, with the aspiration to back future category leaders in verticals exposed to long-term secular growth trends. Our partners have worked with 10 unicorns, investing over $400m into transformational companies such as Transferwise, Marqeta, Farfetch, Travelperk, Pigment, Forter, Ebury, Ledger, Juni and more.