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Garrett Camp on his startup studio, its new $200M fund and what he makes of ‘Super Pumped’
When I first met Garrett Camp in March 2007 on a reporting assignment, it was at the San Francisco-based offices of StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool that had registered more than 2 million users and
Aument wants to power your next marketing message
Aument is carving out a niche in marketing automation for e-commerce stores, raising $1.5 million in pre-seed funding just four months after being founded. CEO Emilio Di Marco met his co-founders, Ala
Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools
Metabase spun out of venture studio Expa as an easy way for people to interact with datasets.
Accounting firm Proper banks $9M Series A to automate property management
Proper’s tech-enabled service is designed to execute those specific real estate accounting-related processes and apply automation to those that are repetitive.
The Station: The lidar SPAC craze and 10 investors give their mobility predictions
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10 investors predict MaaS, on-demand delivery and EVs will dominate mobility’s post-pandemic future
"Transportation is important to basically all people and is a real mess, so it will likely continue to be a hot topic and a source of investor interest for years to come."
Backed by Expa, Aero is a premium air travel startup with $16M in funding
Aero, a new air travel startup backed by Garrett Camp’s startup studio Expa, is officially announcing the appointment of its first CEO: Uma Subramanian, who previously launched Airbus’ hel
Haus, the real estate startup founded by Garrett Camp, raises $7.1M
Haus, a startup aiming to make home ownership more affordable and flexible, is announcing that it has raised $7.1 million in new funding. This amount combines a $4.1 million seed equity investment led
Statespace, the Expa-backed training platform for gamers, launches out of stealth
Nobody likes to lose. Especially gamers. But unlike other sports or activities, video games aren’t conducive to practice. Sure, you could play Destiny 2 until your thumbs bleed. But when it come
Garrett Camp’s latest Expa project, Mix, aims to curate the web
There is surely no shortage of content out there on the web, but for many of us, that can actually be a problem. Twitter is great for real-time information, and Facebook is great for seeing what your
Dovetale wants to let brands of any size use influencer marketing
Influencer marketing is red-hot right now. Whether you realize it or not, a material percentage of your Instagram feed today is probably content posted by people getting paid….a lot. It’
Reserve raises another $10M and plans new software for restaurants
Reserve, a startup offering table and customer management tools for restaurants, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding. When the company first launched in 2014, it billed it
Kit, the Expa-backed social network for product reccos, lands $2.5 million in seed
Kit, the Expa-backed platform for product recommendation, has today announced the close of a $2.5 million from Social Capital, Precursor Ventures, April Underwood, Ellen Pao, Authentic Ventures, Black
Operator fuses bots with humans to build cyborg shopping experts
Big purchases are scary to make online without anyone there to quell your fears and answer questions. Operator’s app wants to give you the same peace of mind, not with mechanical chat bot respon
Uber co-founder launches new real estate venture for Expa called Haus
Garrett Camp, Uber cofounder and CEO of Expa Studios, is today unveiling Expa’s latest project, Haus. Haus is the studio’s first real estate play and focuses entirely on the buying and sel
500 Startups tries its hand at a startup studio, 500 Labs
500 Startups, known for its work as a startup accelerator, now hopes to incubate its own ideas in-house and spin them off into new companies. Called 500 Labs, it’s a new attempt at finding inter
Kit, a social network for products from startup studio Expa, names its first CEO
One of the startups incubated at startup studio Expa is today taking its next step in developing as a standalone company. Kit, a social network where people can share their favorite products — t
Reserve unveils a full suite of tools to help restaurants manage their tables
Since it launched in 2014, Reserve has often been described as a “dining concierge” — which sounds cool but also maybe a little vague. Basically, the company combines a flexible reserv
Expa Labs brings on Eric Friedman as general manager
With the recent announcement of Expa Labs, New York-based Expa has also appointed a new General Manager for the incubator in the form of Eric Friedman. Friedman has been an entrepreneur in residence a
Expa opens up Expa Labs giving companies $500K in funding
Startup studio Expa has today announced the close of a $100 million fund that will go toward both Expa Studios and Expa Labs, a new incubator. Investors in the fund include Garrett Camp, TPG founder D