Expa

Type

Venture Capital, Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

San Francisco, United States

Total investments

126

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

82

Rounds per year

11.45

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyRecruitingHealth CareWellnessSaaSInternet of Things

Summary

Expa appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2013. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Expa the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Expa performs on 22 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile Apps, Recruiting. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SHIFT, Student.com, Clyde. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Expa, startups are often financed by SV Angel, Threshold, Sherpa Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Slow Ventures, Greylock Partners, GGV Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by v1.vc, Threshold, Slow Ventures.

This organization was formed by Garrett Camp. The overall number of key employees were 6.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Check size
250K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
126
Lead investments
7
Exits
5
Rounds per year
11.45
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Software (27)
  • Information Technology (18)
  • Financial Services (18)
  • FinTech (16)
  • E-Commerce (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (96)
  • United Kingdom (9)
  • Mexico (3)
  • Canada (4)
  • Spain (3)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
65M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
0.60
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

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