Expa

Expa, founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, is a startup studio and early-stage venture fund that both builds companies in-house and invests in founders outside its own portfolio. The firm combines design and operational support with capital, and typically enters at the Pre-Seed and Seed stages, before a company has established product-market fit. Expa was founded by Garrett Camp, who co-founded Uber and StumbleUpon. The firm has raised multiple vehicles since, including a US$200Mn fund announced in 2022 for early-stage investments, and has made more than 100 investments to date. Portfolio companies include Metabase, Current, Aero, Collective, Layer, and Cmd. Expa's Bangladesh-linked exposure comes through Fin.com, the cross-border payment infrastructure company co-founded by Bangladeshi-born Nabeel Alamgir. Expa led Fin.com's US$20Mn Seed round, which closed in August 2026 and was disclosed the following month, alongside Garrett Camp personally. The connection runs in both directions: Mustafa Dar joined Expa as an investor in 2023 and left to co-found Fin.com, and Expa founding partner Vitor Lourenco took his place as a co-investor in the round. The firm describes its partners as immigrants who grew up in different countries, and has pointed to that background in explaining its interest in cross-border payments and emerging markets. Expa works with founders on product design, hiring, and go-to-market in the period before a company scales.