Expansion Venture Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

122

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

88

Rounds per year

8.71

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

21

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveInternetTransportationSoftwareMobileSaaSAppsMobile AppsBig DataMarketplace

Summary

In 2011 was created Expansion Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Health Care. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lemonade, Postmates, The RealReal. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 participants. Despite the Expansion Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Techstars, Fontinalis Partners, Camber Creek. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lerer Hippeau, Founder Collective, Fontinalis Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Canaan Partners, Spark Capital, Lerer Hippeau.

The typical startup value when the investment from Expansion Venture Capital is 50-100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Expansion Venture Capital performs on 19 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The fund was created by Joseph Melohn, Ryan Melohn. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistConsumer/RetailB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Series APre-SeedSeed
Geo focus

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 100000000
Fund raised date
2024-01-24

Analytics

Total investments
122
Lead investments
4
Exits
21
Rounds per year
8.71
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Software (27)
  • Mobile (24)
  • Internet (23)
  • Apps (19)
  • Transportation (16)
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Investments by region
  • United States (118)
  • Israel (2)
  • Canada (2)
Peak activity year
2013
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
229M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
2.84
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

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