Jon Samp
Head of Product
Startup profile
Expo
Series BPalo Alto, California, United States$45M raised
Open roles114
Total raised$45M
Team size11-50
Founded · Stage2013 · Series B
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About the company
What they build and who they serve.
Expo (legal entity 650 Industries Inc.) is a Palo Alto-based developer-platform company that builds the open-source framework and toolchain used by millions of React Native developers to ship universal iOS, Android and web applications from a single codebase. Co-founded by Charlie Cheever, Expo has evolved from a popular open-source framework into an infrastructure layer for cross-platform app development, used by startups and enterprises to ship mobile products without maintaining separate native codebases. The Series B also funded the launch of Expo Agent — an AI coding agent targeted at compressing the idea-to-production loop for the 3M+ React Native developers in the Expo ecosystem.
Team & contacts
Key people at the company—reach out on LinkedIn or email.
Dan Kelly
Senior Director of Marketing
Colin Mackenzie
Software Engineer
Eliot Hertenstein
Software Developer Intern
Nishan Bende
Software Engineer
Tomek Czajecki
Engineering Manager
Evan Bacon
Engineering Manager
Philippe Loulidi
Senior Data Engineer
Keith Kurak
Developer Advocate
Why it matters
Signals from funding, traction, and product direction.
- Seth Webster joined as Chief Developer Evangelist concurrent with the raise, a deliberate GTM signal that Expo is now scaling community and enterprise adoption beyond its pure open-source origins.
- Market framing: press labels Expo as an "infrastructure layer for cross-platform mobile development" — positioning the company as mobile's equivalent of Vercel/Next.js for web. 11-50 employees per LinkedIn, signalling an infrastructure-scale unit economics rather than a service play.
- Georgian was sole lead — Emily Walsh signed on behalf of the Toronto-based $5.7B-AUM growth firm, continuing its pattern of backing developer-infrastructure companies (Replit, Render, Dagster). Co-founder Charlie Cheever cited that track record as the decision anchor.
- Round launched alongside Expo Agent — an AI coding agent embedded in the Expo toolchain, targeting the compression of "idea-to-production-ready-app" for the 3M+ React Native developer base already on the platform.
Funding history
Rounds and investors over time, newest first.
Series B
$45MRed Swan VenturesA.Capital VenturesGeorgian · LeadLeadout Capital
In the news
Press, announcements, and coverage about this company.
Investors
Red Swan VenturesA.Capital VenturesGeorgianLeadout Capital
Focus areas
Series BDeveloper ExperienceEnterprise SoftwareMobile AppsOpen Source Software
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