Expa

Expa is a venture studio and VC fund that supports early-stage startups through expertise, access, and funding.

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Updated: Feb 17, 2026 ·

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Oct 1, 2025	Lette AI	$1.0M Seed	—	Double Prime LLP, MMC Ventures
Sep 1, 2025	Inbox Health	$20.0M Venture Round	—	Adverb Ventures, Chloe Sladden, C2 Investment, Catapult Capital, Commerce Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, Convective Capital, Greylock, Healthy Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Kleiner Perkins, Quiet Capital, Softbank Group, Thrive Capital, TY, Aaron Levie, Bradley Horowitz, Jim Pitkow, Marc Benioff
Sep 1, 2025	Axiom Math AI	$64.0M Seed	—	DFJ, Greylock, Intel Capital, Radical Ventures, Eric Futoran, Mike Abbott, Mike Vernal, Nitay Joffe, Quinn Slack, Stewart Butterfield
Jul 1, 2025	Connectd	$7.0M Series A	—	Double Prime LLP, MMC Ventures
Jul 1, 2025	PlayerZero	$5.0M Seed	—	645 Ventures, 8VC, Abstract Ventures, Bennett Siegel, Kevin Hartz, Adverb Ventures, Alchemy Ventures, Alt Capital, Ben Taft's Genius Ventures, Citi Ventures, Craft Ventures, DFJ, DST Global, Felicis Ventures, First Round Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Foundation Capital, Foundry Group, Fuel Capital, Green Bay Ventures, Greylock, High Alpha, Intel Capital, LGF, Liquid 2 Ventures, Maniv Mobility, Matrix, Maverick Capital, Nyca Partners, Radical Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Seven Seven Six, SignalFire, South Park Commons, SV Angel, Thayer Ventures, Thrive Capital, Toyota Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Uncork Capital, Underscore VC, Weekend Fund, WndrCo LLC, Y Combinator, Amjad Masad, Austin Ogilvie, Chris Bennett, Daniel Kan, Deborah Liu, DJ Patil, Drew Houston, Dylan Field, Eric Futoran, Evan Moore, Fidji Simo, Guillaume Luccisano, Guillermo Rauch, Howie Liu, Jacob Kerzner, Jason Kay, Justin Mateen, Kevin Lin, Marc Benioff, Mark Pincus, Mike Abbott, Mike Liu, Mike Vernal, Nate Matherson, Nitay Joffe, Prescott Watson, Quinn Slack, Shishir Mehrotra, Stewart Butterfield, Tobias Lutke, Yan-David Erlich
Jul 1, 2025	MaintainX	$150.0M Series D	—	Amity Ventures, Bain Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, DST Global, Exponent Founders Capital, Lobby Capital, Jeff Immelt, Nexus Venture Partners, Richard Jhang, Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Y Combinator, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Brandon Deer, George Burke, Jake Zeller, Jonathan Swanson, Rob Bernshteyn
Jun 1, 2025	Muon Space	$45.0M Series B	—	Congruent Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, DFJ, Element Partners, Greylock, Intel Capital, Radical Ventures, Space Capital, Eric Futoran, Frederic Kerrest, Mike Abbott, Mike Vernal, Nitay Joffe, Quinn Slack, Stewart Butterfield, Yan-David Erlich
Jun 1, 2025	Zango	$5.0M Seed	—	Double Prime LLP, MMC Ventures, Charlie Songhurst, Cristóbal Conde
May 1, 2025	Unblocked	$20.0M Series A	—	Gautam Gupta, Kevin Hartz, Accel, AI4ALL, Alkeon Capital, Alt Capital, Alumni Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Axiom Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Blockchange Ventures, Bond, Conviction Partners, Decibel Partners, DFJ, DTCP, Electric Capital, Forerunner Ventures, G2VP, General Catalyst, Greylock, Hanabi Capital, Hardware Club, Heretic Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, iNovia Capital, Intel Capital, InterWest, Madrona Ventures, Kazuma Ieiri, Operator Collective, Picus Capital, Radical Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital, Sherpalo Ventures, Tribe Capital, Valar Ventures, Y Combinator, Aaron Levie, Akshay Kothari, Amjad Masad, Don MacAskill, Eric Futoran, Frederic Kerrest, Howie Liu, Matt Macinnis, Mike Abbott, Mike Vernal, Neha Narkhede, Nitay Joffe, Oliver Cameron, Quinn Slack, Ron Pragides, Stewart Butterfield, Tobias Lutke, Yan-David Erlich
Apr 1, 2025	Outtake	$17.0M Series A	—	10100, 2xN, Kevin Hartz, ACME Capital, Atomic, Benchmark, Cota Capital, Craft Ventures, Matt Ocko, Zachary Bogue, ENIAC Ventures, First Round Capital, Founder Collective, General Atlantic, Graph Ventures, David Krane, M.G. Siegler, High Alpha, Innovation Endeavors, Shawn Modarresi, K2 Global, Kapor Capital, Kleiner Perkins, LAUNCH, Lead Edge Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Menlo Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, Pelion Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Structure Capital, Summit Partners, Techstars, The Hit Forge, Vayner RSE, Babak Nivi, Jay Z, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Stoppelman, JOHN FANNING, John Kobs, Josh Spear, Khaled Helioui, Megan Quinn, MG Siegler, Scott Banister, Scott Belsky, Shervin Pishevar, Troy Carter
Dec 1, 2024	Fastrak AI	$3.0M Seed	—	Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund, Amity Ventures, Bain Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, DST Global, Lobby Capital, Jeff Immelt, Richard Jhang, Brandon Deer, George Burke, Jake Zeller, Jonathan Swanson, Rob Bernshteyn
Dec 1, 2024	Pin	$3.0M Seed	—	Y Combinator, Sahil Lavingia
Nov 1, 2024	Class 8	$22.0M Series A	—	Xplorer Capital
Oct 1, 2024	Pacific Fusion	$900.0M Series A	—	Addition, Adverb Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Chloe Sladden, Bond, C2 Investment, Catapult Capital, Commerce Ventures, Contrary Capital, DST Global, Floodgate, gener8tor, General Catalyst, Gradient Ventures, Greylock, Haystack, Idealab, Infinite Niches, Initialized Capital, Innovation Endeavors, Jetstream, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lakestar, LGF, Long Journey Ventures, Lux Capital, Matrix, Mohamad Makhzoumi, Next Level Ventures, Quiet Capital, Rethink Education, Saga, Sherpalo Ventures, Softbank Group, Sound Ventures, SV Angel, The Hit Forge, Thrive Capital, Tribe Capital, Venture Highway, Aaron Levie, Anne Wojcicki, Bradley Horowitz, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Emil Michael, Gokul Rajaram, Henry Kravis, Immad Akhund, Jim Pitkow, Kunal Shah, Mandeep Singh, Manik Gupta, Marc Benioff, Mato Peric, Max Mullen, Nico Rosberg, Omid Ashtari, Scott Banister, Tony Xu
Sep 1, 2024	Yellow	$10.0M Seed	—	14Peaks Capital, 2150, Bling Capital, byFounders, Casa Verde Capital, Iterative, Locus Ventures, MetaProp Ventures, QED Investors, Ameet Ranadive, Balaji Srinivasan, Bobby Goodlatte, Dylan Field, Yishan Wong
Aug 1, 2024	Muon Space	$57.0M Series B	—	Congruent Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, DFJ, Element Partners, Greylock, Intel Capital, Radical Ventures, Space Capital, Eric Futoran, Frederic Kerrest, Mike Abbott, Mike Vernal, Nitay Joffe, Quinn Slack, Stewart Butterfield, Yan-David Erlich
Aug 1, 2024	Bandana	$9.0M Seed	—	Ardent Venture Partners, Blossom Capital, Cherubic Ventures, General Catalyst, Gradient Ventures, LGF, Jared Hecht, Presight Capital, QED Investors, Sound Ventures, SV Angel, Aaron Levie, Adrian Aoun, Dylan Field, Eddie Hartman, Eric Wu, Gokul Rajaram, Jenna Hannon, Kevin Lin, Saturnin Pugnet, Scott Belsky, Steve Chen, Vivek Patel
Jun 1, 2024	Cube Dev	$25.0M Series B	—	645 Ventures, Acrew Capital, Atlassian Ventures, Bain Capital Crypto, Bain Capital Ventures, Blu Venture Investors, Coatue, Cyberstarts VC, Decibel Partners, Offline Ventures, Okta Ventures, Rain Capital, Sequoia Capital, Sweater Ventures, Tribe Capital, Oliver Friedrichs
May 1, 2024	Infleet	$2.0M Seed	—	10100, 2xN, Indicator Capital, Innovation Endeavors, Romulus Capital, Américo Pereira Filho, Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, Yves Nogueira
Apr 1, 2024	ARRIS	$34.0M Venture Round	—	1776, Alumni Ventures, Amity Ventures, Ansa Capital, Bain Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Bascom Ventures, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, BootstrapLabs, DST Global, Energy Impact Partners, FirstMark Capital, Xuhui Shao, Gigascale Capital, Golden Ventures, Gotham Gal Ventures, Illuminate Financial Management, Lobby Capital, Modern Venture Partners, NEVA SGR, Greg Papadopoulos, Jeff Immelt, New Enterprise Associates, Parkway VC, R42 Group, Richard Jhang, Ridgeline Partners, Greg Bettinelli, Ulu Ventures, XFactor Ventures, Y Combinator, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Brandon Deer, George Burke, Jake Zeller, Jonathan Swanson, Pete Koomen, Peter Sonsini, Rob Bernshteyn
Mar 1, 2024	Applied Intuition	$250.0M Series E	—	10100, 1confirmation, Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Adverb Ventures, AirAngels, Amplo, Andreessen Horowitz, Chloe Sladden, Anti fund, Atomico, Base Partners, Bond, BoxGroup, Brainchild, C2 Investment, Catapult Capital, Coatue, Collab Capital, Commerce Ventures, Construct Capital, Daffy, Divergence Ventures, Dynamo Ventures, Electric Capital, Entrepreneur First, Founders Fund, Fuel Capital, General Catalyst, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Greylock, Haystack, Hersh Interactive Group, Index Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, InterWest, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, LGF, Liquid 2 Ventures, Lux Capital, MaC Venture Capital, Menlo Ventures, Rick Yang, New Form Capital, Next Play Ventures, No Label Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Outcast Ventures, Polychain Capital, Quiet Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Robot Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Softbank Group, Sound Ventures, SparkLabs Group, The Hit Forge, Thrive Capital, UpHonest Capital, Visionaire Ventures, Aaron Levie, Aston Motes, Balaji Srinivasan, Bradley Horowitz, Carmelo Anthony (Melo7 Tech Partners), Diego Berdakin, DJ Patil, Dylan Field, Erik Moore, Gokul Rajaram, Jim Pitkow, John Legend, Justin Mateen, Kevin Colas, Marc Benioff, Mark Pincus, Mike Krieger, Rick Wagoner, Sahin Boydas, Stani Kulechov, Thomas Tull, Vitalik Buterin
Dec 1, 2023	MaintainX	$50.0M Series C	—	AlleyCorp, Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Amity Ventures, Atomico, Bain Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Curiosity VC, Daffy, DST Global, Exponent Founders Capital, Fin Capital, Jetstream, Lobby Capital, Maki.vc, Ann Bordetsky, Jeff Immelt, New Enterprise Associates, NextView Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Planeteer Capital, Richard Jhang, Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Voyager Ventures, Y Combinator, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Bernhard Niesner, Brandon Deer, George Burke, Henrik Herr, Jake Zeller, Johan Brand, Johann "Hansi" Hansmann, Jonathan Swanson, Manik Gupta, Max Simkoff, Phillip Chambers, Phoebe Wang, Rob Bernshteyn, Steve Schlafman
Nov 1, 2023	Forward	$100.0M Series E	—	11, Adverb Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Chloe Sladden, C2 Investment, Catapult Capital, Commerce Ventures, DBL Partners, DTCP, Greylock, ICONIQ Capital, Innovation Endeavors, Kleiner Perkins, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Quiet Capital, sequel, Softbank Group, SOSV, Thrive Capital, Aaron Levie, Anjney Midha, Bartek Pucek, Bradley Horowitz, Brendan Iribe, Jim Pitkow, Marc Benioff, Mattia Astori, Mike Krieger, Rob Theis, Siqi Chen
Nov 1, 2023	Layla AI	$3.0M Seed	—	Cherry Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Giant Ventures, Konstantin von Unger, Markus Villig, Martin Tajur, Ragnar Sass, Richard Branson, Ronald Cohen
Oct 1, 2023	Outset	$4.0M Seed	—	8VC, Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Adverb Ventures, Air Street Capital, Airtree Ventures, Alt Capital, Alumni Ventures, AngelPad, Antiportfolio Ventures, Ben Taft's Genius Ventures, Catapult Capital, Craft Ventures, DST Global, eFounders, Felicis Ventures, First Round Capital, Freestyle Capital, Fuel Capital, General Catalyst, GIT1K, Frederique Dame, Harlem Capital, Infinite Niches, Jetstream, Kepler Operator’s Fund, LGF, LocalGlobe, Logos Labs, M13, Marathon Venture Capital, Matrix, Merus Capital, N49P Ventures, Openview Venture Partners, Partech Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Shine Capital, Soma Capital, Sound Ventures, The Yield Lab LATAM, Tiger Global Management, Weekend Fund, WorkLife Ventures, Y Combinator, Afraj Gill, Bianca Ambrosini, Chris Herd, Cory Levy, Cristina Cordova, Daniel Kan, David J. Phillips, Deborah Liu, Dylan Field, Guillaume Luccisano, Immad Akhund, Jon Brelig, Julia Hartz, Melissa Tan, Michael Stoppelman, Mike Hennessey, Nate Matherson, Nitay Joffe, Oliver Cameron, Paul Graham, Ron Pragides, Saran Chari, Tim Kendall, Tom Blomfield, Zack Kanter

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Leadership Team

Key people at Expa.

Kristin (Stannard) Kent

Leadership Team

Key people at Expa.

Kristin (Stannard) Kent

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

Expa is a venture studio and venture capital fund founded to support early-stage startups by providing a combination of capital, operational expertise, and access to a broad network. Its mission centers on helping founders transform innovative ideas into scalable businesses through hands-on support in product design, branding, engineering, operations, and recruiting. Expa invests primarily in sectors such as SaaS, FinTech, ClimateTech, E-Commerce, and software, aiming to foster startups that can achieve significant growth and impact. By combining Expa Studio, which builds and launches new companies, with Expa Ventures, which invests in promising early-stage startups, Expa offers a dual approach that enhances startup success and ecosystem development[1][3][6].

Origin Story

Expa was founded in 2013 by Garrett Camp, co-founder of Uber, with the vision of creating a platform that not only provides funding but also deep operational support to startups. The firm has evolved to include a robust team of industry leaders and entrepreneurs who bring experience from companies like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Foursquare. Over time, Expa has expanded its focus to include a diverse range of sectors and geographies, maintaining offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and London. This evolution reflects its commitment to nurturing startups from ideation through growth stages with a comprehensive support system[1][3][4].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Expa combines a venture studio approach with traditional VC funding, offering startups both capital and hands-on operational support from inception through scaling[1][6].
Network Strength: With offices in major innovation hubs and a network that includes founders and operators from top tech companies, Expa provides unparalleled access to expertise and partnerships[1][4].
Track Record: Over 100 investments and 11 exits demonstrate Expa’s ability to identify and grow successful startups, including notable companies like Current, Aero, and Collective[1][3].
Operating Support: Expa offers extensive resources in product design, branding, engineering, recruiting, legal strategy, and marketing, helping startups accelerate time to market and refine their business models[1][6].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Expa rides the trend of integrated venture studios that blend capital with operational expertise, addressing the increasing complexity startups face in early stages. The timing is favorable as startups demand more than just funding—they require strategic guidance and execution support to navigate competitive markets and technological shifts. Expa’s focus on sectors like ClimateTech and FinTech aligns with growing market demands for sustainable solutions and financial innovation. By fostering startups that tackle significant challenges, Expa influences the broader ecosystem by accelerating innovation cycles and enabling new business models to emerge[1][3][4].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Expa is poised to deepen its impact by continuing to refine its dual studio and venture fund model, potentially expanding into new sectors and geographies. Trends such as AI integration, climate innovation, and decentralized finance will likely shape its investment focus. As startups increasingly seek comprehensive support, Expa’s blend of capital and operational expertise will remain a critical differentiator, potentially increasing its influence as a key enabler of next-generation technology companies. This forward momentum ties back to Expa’s founding vision of empowering founders to build transformative businesses with both resources and guidance[1][3][4][6].

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High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Expa combines a venture studio approach with traditional VC funding, offering startups both capital and hands-on operational support from inception through scaling[1][6].
Network Strength: With offices in major innovation hubs and a network that includes founders and operators from top tech companies, Expa provides unparalleled access to expertise and partnerships[1][4].
Track Record: Over 100 investments and 11 exits demonstrate Expa’s ability to identify and grow successful startups, including notable companies like Current, Aero, and Collective[1][3].
Operating Support: Expa offers extensive resources in product design, branding, engineering, recruiting, legal strategy, and marketing, helping startups accelerate time to market and refine their business models[1][6].