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Expansion Venture Capital

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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

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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in Boatbound. (6/1/13)
  Posted 6/13/13 at 9:32am via techcrunch.com
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in PopExpert. (5/21/13)
  Posted 5/21/13 at 7:00pm via techcrunch.com
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in CompStak. (3/29/13)
  Posted 4/10/13 at 1:56pm via finsmes.com
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in Postmates. (3/19/13)
  Posted 3/29/13 at 6:46pm via techcrunch.com
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in Learnmetrics. (2/13/13)
  Posted 3/27/13 at 6:11am
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in Socratic Labs. (1/1/13)
  Posted 2/21/13 at 12:33am
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in CompStak. (12/31/12)
  Posted 1/4/13 at 11:31am via angel.co
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in Red Tricycle. (11/30/12)
  Posted 11/29/12 at 9:11pm via finsmes.com
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in MAZ. (11/14/12)
  Posted 11/17/12 at 3:58am via yahoo.com
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in TenderTree. (11/14/12)
  Posted 11/14/12 at 6:30am via techcrunch.com
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in CompStak. (10/18/12)
  Posted 10/18/12 at 9:36am via techcrunch.com
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in Chalkable. (9/4/12)
  Posted 9/4/12 at 7:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in Student Loan Hero. (8/22/12)
  Posted 11/1/12 at 1:21pm via startupchile.org
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in Apptopia. (7/26/12)
  Posted 7/26/12 at 7:17pm via techcrunch.com
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in Emergent One. (7/1/12)
  Posted 9/19/12 at 12:53pm
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  Expansion Venture Capital invested in Firebase. (5/24/12)
  Posted 5/22/12 at 1:00pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. Boatbound Launches ‘Pier-To-Pier’ Boat Rental Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. fundings & exits Comment 2 inShare20 PopExpert Online Video Education Marketplace Raises $2M In Seed Funding From Learn Capital And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. CompStak Raises $4.45M in Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
4. To Expand Into Seattle And Beyond, Postmates Has Raised $5 Million From Founders Fund And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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7. AngelList (angel.co) [edit]
8. Red Tricycle Raises $1.5M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
9. MAZ Digital Inc. Closes $1 Million Seed Round (ca.finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
10. 500 Startups-Backed TenderTree Raises $1.3 Million To Expand Its Marketplace Of In-Home Caregivers (techcrunch.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]
23. RelayRides Closes $10M Series A.2 Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
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