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Vitor Lourenco

Investor at vitor.com

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Vitor Lourenco is a Founding Partner at Expa in Los Angeles, with a background in product design and user experience. Notable highlights include co-founding Envoy Inc. and working as a designer at Twitter, with investments in companies like Collective at the seed stage.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner

    2013 - Current

    Co-founded Expa with Garrett Camp (co-founder of Uber). Raised $350M to incubate companies like Aero.com, Current.com, Metabase.com, Collective.com, Layer.com and invest in companies like Prometheus, Radar, Norm.Ai, Sleeper, and 100+ others.

Expa Labs is a program for early stage companies.

  • Lead Investor / Advisor

    2023

    Incubated Layer at Expa with Angelo Sotira (founder of DevianArt). Layer combines editorial curation, museum-grade hardware, and proprietary software to bring digital art into the flow of everyday life.

  • Creative Advisor / Investor

    2018

    Incubated Aero with Garrett Camp and Roberto Sanabria at Expa. I've been responsible for Aero's brand, design language and creative direction since its inception. Having fun designing jets and a first-class flying experience between private terminals.

Aero is an air travel company that matches air travelers with premium seats or shared charters.

Raised $120,999,998.00 from AlbaCore Capital, Capital One Ventures, Expa and Keyframe Capital Partners.

  • Investor

    2017

    LiveKit.io (Pre-seed), Spline.com (Seed), Tribe.Ai (Seed), Compound.finance (Pre-seed), Jup.ag Exchange (Pre-seed), Eco.com (Seed), Rye.com (Pre-seed), Omni.app (Seed), Beacon.com (Series A+B), JourneyColab.com (Series A), SuperHi.com (Pre-seed), AuraFrames.com (Advisor), Every.org (Advisor), Interseller.io (Pre-seed), Atlantico.vc (Fund I), Canary.vc (Fund I), GreyMatterCapital.com (Fund I).

  • Co-founder, Advisor

    2013 - 2016

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

Envoy transforms modern workplaces with innovations that make office life and work more meaningful.

Raised $170,150,000.00 from Menlo Ventures, Elad Gil, BAM Elevate, Haystack, TriplePoint Capital, Initialized Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Seven Seven Six and Brookfield Growth.

  • Designer

    2008 - 2012

    First Designer, worked alongside founders Ev Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey.

X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.

Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.

  • Designer

    2006 - 2008

    Designed products which were used by millions of people in Brazil.

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