Expanding Capital

Expanding Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016. The firm specializes in providing growth capital to early-stage companies, particularly those located in Silicon Valley, that are poised for significant expansion and plan to go public within five years. Expanding Capital focuses on assisting these companies in unlocking their full potential and developing new markets through minority investments. By targeting fast-growing businesses, the firm aims to support their strategic growth and value creation in a competitive landscape.

Derek Hall

Partner

Leonardo Salgado

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Jonathan Shriftman

Partner

Christian Telles

Managing Partner

17 past transactions

JOBOX.ai

Series B in 2022
JoBox, Inc. is a stealth mode company focusing on artificial intelligence solutions. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

mParticle

Series C in 2017
mParticle is the customer data platform for every screen. Sophisticated marketers at companies like Walmart, Starwood, NBC Universal, Spotify and Airbnb use mParticle to integrate and orchestrate their entire growth stack, enabling them to win in key moments of the customer journey. Learn more at mparticle.com.

Darez Atividades de Internet ltda.

Private Placement in 2020
Darez Atividades de Internet ltda. operates an online marketplace for small and medium retailers. The company operates an an online sales platform, dolado, which sells mobile phone accessories, wine, food, automotive parts, and toys products. It also provides management technology, support services, virtual trainings, cash flow management, and goods purchasing optimization tools and services to the merchants. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Nav

Series C in 2019
Nav is a free site and app that gives business owners the fastest, easiest and most trusted path to financing. The leading Business Financial Management app, Nav gives free access to personal and business credit reports from major consumer and commercial credit bureaus including Experian, Dun & Bradstreet, Equifax and TransUnion, and hosts a robust marketplace with more than 100 business financing products including loans and credit cards. The marketplace uses a unique, lender-neutral approach to help business owners find the best financing options for their needs. Nav's solution is also leveraged by other business service providers to enhance their customer experience.

ClassPass

Series C in 2017
ClassPass Inc. provides an online fitness class booking service. It offers an online subscription service that provides access to a network of boutique fitness studios and gyms, including cycling, Pilates, yoga, strength training, dance, martial arts, and more. ClassPass Inc. was formerly known as Classtivity Inc. and changed its name to ClassPass Inc. in March 2014. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York. It has locations in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Oceania.

Imagen Technologies

Series B in 2018
Imagen is a healthcare company whose mission is to save patient lives by making accurate medical image interpretation universally available and affordable. Currently, over two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to basic radiology services. Through our technology and close collaboration with world-leading clinicians, we believe that we can do something about it. We take an interdisciplinary approach: we are a team of experts in machine learning, healthcare, software engineering, and regulatory affairs who research and develop assistive software for clinicians. Our FDA-cleared software analyzes the content of medical images and produces diagnoses, improving the diagnostic accuracy of clinicians by highlighting detected pathology. We are advised by some of the world’s leading scientists and medical researchers, including Turing Award winner Yann LeCun. We have raised over $60M from leading investors including GV, DFJ, and Zach Weinberg. Imagen is based in New York and actively hiring. Are you excited about joining our mission? Reach out directly to us at recruitingteam@imagen.ai

Beyond Identity

Series C in 2022
Beyond Identity's mission is to empower the next generation of secure digital business by replacing passwords with fundamentally secure X.509-based certificates. This patent-pending approach creates an extended Chain of Trust that includes user and device identity and a real-time snapshot of the device’s security posture for adaptive risk-based authentication and authorization. Beyond Identity’s cloud-native solution enables customers to increase business velocity, implement new business models, reduce operating costs, and achieve complete passwordless identity management.

Duetto

Series D in 2018
Duetto is hospitality’s only Revenue Strategy Platform. A powerful suite of cloud applications addresses the industry’s complexity in distribution and technology, providing solutions that increase booking conversion, efficiency, guest loyalty and revenue. The unique combination of hospitality experience and technology leadership drives Duetto to look for new and innovative solutions to the industry’s greatest challenges. Duetto delivers software-as-a-service to hotels and casinos that leverage dynamic data sources and actionable insights into pricing and demand across the enterprise, enabling a holistic and more profitable Revenue Strategy.

TuneIn

Series G in 2017
TuneIn lets people listen to the world's sports, new, talk, and music with over 100,000 real radio stations and four million on-demand programs streaming from every continent. TuneIn has over 50 million monthly active users, and is available on over 200 different connected devices, including all smartphone and tablet operating systems and 55 vehicle models. To date, TuneIn has raised venture funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, and Jafco Ventures, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

OpenGov

Series C in 2017
OpenGov is the leader in government performance management, with easy-to-use cloud software for better budgeting, improved operational intelligence, and comprehensive open data. OpenGov solutions give governments the right tools and relevant data for more informed decision-making and better outcomes for the public. Over 2,000 public agencies in 48 states use OpenGov software. Founded in 2012, OpenGov customers include the State Treasurer of Ohio, the city of Minneapolis, MN; Maricopa County, AZ; and Washington, DC. OpenGov is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Emerson Collective, 8VC, and Thrive Capital and has headquarters in Redwood City, CA.

Fair

Series B in 2018
Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time. Fair was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Postscript

Series C in 2022
Postscript provides enterprise SMS marketing solutions for e-commerce. It allows users to easily create and manage SMS marketing campaigns with detailed analytics to improve sales and revenue. It plugs into e-commerce businesses and helps overcome declining email engagement by sending customers targeted and customizable SMS marketing.

Sure

Series C in 2021
Sure is a mobile app that allows you to purchase insurance when you want it, and where you want it. Sure is the future of personal insurance with Episodic Insurance . Getting insured is one of the most financially responsible actions you can take. they"ve made it easier than ever to feel protected.Sure helps savvy consumers like you with purchasing and managing the insurance policies that best suit your lifestyle.

ClassPass

Series C in 2017
ClassPass Inc. provides an online fitness class booking service. It offers an online subscription service that provides access to a network of boutique fitness studios and gyms, including cycling, Pilates, yoga, strength training, dance, martial arts, and more. ClassPass Inc. was formerly known as Classtivity Inc. and changed its name to ClassPass Inc. in March 2014. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York. It has locations in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Oceania.

Farmer's Business Network, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Farmer's Business Network, Inc. provides agronomic and financial insights for farmers and farmer-to-farmer networking solutions. It offers analytics solutions, such as seed and agronomic analytics, input price transparency, farm and team operations, data integrations and storage, and mobile apps; and resources for buying herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and adjuvants. The company also provides resources for crop marketing, including market data and technology, grain marketing and pricing contracts, and specialty grain and pulse production; and FBN Finance that connects farmers with competitive rates. In addition, it offers FBN Direct that helps farmers go direct to manufacturer and service providers to help get the best prices possible on agrochemicals, seeds, fertilizers, equipment, and farm services; and FBN Price Transparency that gives members national insight on input prices to increase their negotiating power when working with existing suppliers. Farmer's Business Network, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California with a farmer experience office in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Farmer Business Network

Series F in 2020
Farmers Business Network is an independent and unbiased, farmer-to-farmer agronomic information network. The Network's mission is to improve the livelihood of farmers by making data useful and accessible. Farmers Business Network (FBN) utilizes data science and machine learning to provide members with unbiased and unprecedented insights about each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network. IT provides farmers with product performance, benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real-world performance data