Expansion Venture Capital, co-founded by brothers Joseph and Ryan Melohn, is an entrepreneur-led venture capital firm with offices in New York City and Miami. Specializing in early-stage investments, the firm provides both financial backing and hands-on operational support to founders aiming to tackle significant market challenges. Viewing their portfolio companies as extensions of their team, the partners maintain close, long-term relationships and make themselves available at any hour to help overcome obstacles. Since its founding, the firm has combined capital with in-depth guidance on business development, customer outreach, talent sourcing and media strategy.
The firm focuses on pre-seed, seed and select Series A rounds, typically writing initial checks between $100,000 and $1,000,000. Its portfolio is sector-agnostic, spanning technology, SaaS, consumer marketplaces, proptech, mobile applications, artificial intelligence, life sciences, healthcare, logistics and biotechnology. Investments are made across the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel and Latin America. In addition to capital, the team offers mentorship on product-market fit, support for follow-on fundraising, strategic introductions with Fortune 500 partners, customer acquisition tactics, talent recruitment, press outreach and operational best practices.
The firm’s public portfolio features companies such as Postmates, Turo, Carta, Lemonade, Allbirds, Firebase, Latch, Transfix, Via, Life360 and YieldStreet. Expansion Venture Capital has also shown an interest in environmental technology and sustainable energy ventures, positioning itself to support startups working on battery innovations, energy storage platforms and related clean technology advances. This openness complements the firm’s commitment to empowering entrepreneurs who aim to solve major challenges.
