VL

Vítor Lourenco

Founding Partner, Expa

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $150,000.00

Work Experience

2013

  • Founding Partner

    2013

    Co-founded Expa with Garrett Camp (co-founder of Uber). Raised over $350M, launched dozens of companies and funded 200+ founders. We’re the startup studio behind companies like Metabase, Current, Collective, Aero, Eco, Layer.

2017

  • Designer, Advisor, Investor

    2017

    Spline.com (Seed investor), LiveKit.io (Pre-seed investor), Beacon.com (Series B investor), Tribe.Ai (Seed investor), Compound.finance (Pre-seed investor), Eco.com (Investor/Advisor to founding team), Rye.com (Pre-seed investor), Omni.app (Seed investor), JourneyColab.com (Series A investor), Mercurial.finance (Pre-seed investor), SuperHi.com (Pre-seed investor), AuraFrames.com (Advisor to founding team), Every.org (Advisor), Interseller.io (Pre-seed investor), Atlantico.vc (Fund investor), Canary.vc (Fund investor), GreyMatterCapital.com (Fund investor), Expa.com (Fund investor).

2013 - 2016

  • Co-founder

    2013 - 2016

    Co-founded Envoy ($1B+ valuation), designed its flagship product and brand, acquired and supported early customers. Envoy raised over $170M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, and Initialized Capital.

2008 - 2012

  • Designer

    2008 - 2012

    Joined Twitter as their first Designer in 2008 to work alongside founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey. Helped the company grow from 10 to 3000 employees, and the product grow from 1000s to 200,000,000 users. Left in December 2012, after having become the second longest tenured employee.

2006 - 2008

  • Designer

    2006 - 2008

    Designed products which were used by millions of people in Brazil. Globo Corporation is the largest media conglomerate in Latin America and among the biggest in the world.