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General Information

WebsiteExpansionVC.com
Twitter@ExpansionVC
Phone212.265.1220
Emailinfo@expansionvc.com
Employees
DescriptionHybrid Angel Investors

Funds

Offices

HQ
250 W 57th Street, RM 1401
New York, NY, 10107
USA

People

Chief Operating Officer
President

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Expansion Venture Capital

Expansion VC is an angel/VC firm located in New York City and founded by brothers, Joseph and Ryan Melohn. Expansion VC provides capital investments to early stage companies focused on the Internet, e-commerce, education, biotechnology, and energy markets.

Expansion VC primarily invests small amounts in early stage companies and usually will follow on with an additional investment as time progresses.

We review lots of opportunities every year looking for the most compelling entrepreneurs tackling problems in the biggest markets

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
PopExpert 5/13Seed$2M5
CompStak 3/13Series A$4.45M9
Postmates 3/13Venture Round$5M3
Learnmetrics 2/13Seed$100k4
Edventory 2013Seed$15k1
Socratic Labs 1/13Seed1
CompStak 12/12Seed$570k6
Red Tricycle 11/12Series A$1.5M8
TenderTree 11/12Seed$1.3M8
MAZ 11/12Seed$1M3
CompStak 10/12Seed$570k6
Chalkable 9/12Seed$1.3M4
Student Loan Hero 8/12Seed$40k1
Apptopia 7/12Seed$1M2
Emergent One 7/12Seed$330k4
Firebase 5/12Seed$1.4M5
Engrade 5/12Venture Round$3M5
Ark 4/12Seed$5M14
AppStack 3/12Seed$1.5M12
Pricing Engine 1/12Seed$200k2
MinoMonsters 11/11Seed$1M9
Fitocracy 9/11Seed$250k26
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals 1/02Series B1

Videos

Sources

  1. fundings & exits Comment 2 inShare20 PopExpert Online Video Education Marketplace Raises $2M In Seed Funding From Learn Capital And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. CompStak Raises $4.45M in Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  3. To Expand Into Seattle And Beyond, Postmates Has Raised $5 Million From Founders Fund And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  5. angel.co [edit]
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  7. AngelList (angel.co) [edit]
  8. Red Tricycle Raises $1.5M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  9. 500 Startups-Backed TenderTree Raises $1.3 Million To Expand Its Marketplace Of In-Home Caregivers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. MAZ Digital Inc. Closes $1 Million Seed Round (ca.finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
  11. CompStak Knows Exactly How Much Your Office Should Cost, Raises $565K And Joins 500 Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. With $1.3M From 500 Startups & Others, Chalkable Launches An App Store For Schools (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. Start-Up Chile (startupchile.org) [edit]
  14. Mark Cuban Leads Mobile App Marketplace Apptopia’s $1 Million Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  16. Firebase Raises $1.1M For Real-Time App Infrastructure (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. High school coder gets $3M for his gradebook software, 10-years later (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  18. Ark Raised $4.2 Million Seed Round Instead Of Series A To "Keep Complete Control" Of Its People Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  19. Mobile Ad Optimization Startup AppStack Raises $1.5M From Eric Schmidt, Google Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  20. Pando Daily - PricingEngine (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  21. MinoMonsters Nabs $1 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, And More For Mobile Monster Battles (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. AngelList (angel.co) [edit]
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