Expa
San Francisco, California · Invests in US; LATAM; North America; Europe · Website
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We build category-defining companies through a combination of design, product, operations, and capital. We identify market gaps, pair brilliant founders with Expa's studio resources, and help them build companies that reshape entire industries.
Likely not a fit for
No me-too products, lifestyle businesses, passive financial engineering, or late-stage capital-only deals.
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Typical decision
- ~1 week
- Warm intro
- Not required
- Involvement
- Takes a board seat
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $350M
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
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Business in Vancouver
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Business Wire
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bizjournals.com
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TechCrunch
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Business in Vancouver
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