# Apptopia funding: rounds and investors

> Apptopia has raised $4.4M across 7 rounds since 2011. Investors include Expansion Venture Capital, Mark Cuban and Kima Ventures. Every round with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/company/apptopia (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

United States · [Seed startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies)

# Who invested in *Apptopia*

7 rounds we have observed, with the 15 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

Big Data & Analytics Consumer Apps

Funding summary Updated 26 Oct 2026

**$4.4M** raised across 7 rounds since 2011, from 7 sources

**$110K** Seed **$200K** Seed **$500K** Seed **$137K** Seed **$565K** Seed **$150K** Seed **$2.7M** Seed

- **Latest round:** Seed, $2.7M Nov 2016
- **Step-up i:** 18×
- **Investors:** 15

See who backed them

## The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

**$110K** Seed

**$200K** Seed

**$500K** Seed

**$137K** Seed

**$565K** Seed

**$150K** Seed

**$2.7M** Seed

- **First round:** Seed, $110K
- **Biggest round:** $2.7M
- **Usual gap between rounds:** 6 months

[**Apptopia** Enterprise 1 / 9 Their pitch deck **Apptopia's pitch deck, 9 slides** Each slide read for what it argues, against the decks that raised at the same stage.](https://millionrounds.com/decks/apptopia)

## The rounds

- **Nov 2016** Seed **$2.7M** *1 new* [Sound Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sound-ventures) Reported by FinSMEs
- **Aug 2013** Seed **$150K** *1 returning* [Kima Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kima-ventures) From a historical funding record
- **Jul 2013** Seed **$565K** No investor was named in the report. From a historical funding record
- **Jan 2013** Seed **$137K** *11 new* *3 returning* [Kima Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kima-ventures) [Mark Cuban](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mark-cuban) [Rothenberg Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/rothenberg-ventures) [Expansion Venture Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/expansion-venture-capital) [Jeremie Berrebi](https://millionrounds.com/fund/jeremie-berrebi) [Telegraph Hill Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/telegraph-hill-capital) [Eric Kagan](https://millionrounds.com/fund/eric-kagan) [Zachary Aarons](https://millionrounds.com/fund/zachary-aarons) [Joseph Melohn](https://millionrounds.com/fund/joseph-melohn) [Mark Kingdon](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mark-kingdon) [Mike Rothenberg](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mike-rothenberg) Anselm Adams Pili Cora Varun Dalal From a historical funding record
- **Jul 2012** Seed **$500K** *2 returning* [Mark Cuban](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mark-cuban) [Expansion Venture Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/expansion-venture-capital) From a historical funding record
- **Apr 2012** Seed **$200K** *2 new* *1 returning* [Mark Cuban](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mark-cuban) [Expansion Venture Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/expansion-venture-capital) [Joseph Melohn](https://millionrounds.com/fund/joseph-melohn) Reported by techcrunch.com
- **Oct 2011** Seed **$110K** *1 new* [Expansion Venture Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/expansion-venture-capital) Reported by techcrunch.com

## Founders and team

From Apptopia's own website: 2 founders, 33 on the team.

**Jonathan Kay** CO-Founder & CEO

**Eli Sapir** CO-Founder & Chairman

- **Steve Swad** President & COO
- **Mike Fairchild** Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis
- **Sergey Yanovitsky** Vice President of Data Engineering
- **Tom Grant** Vice President of Research
- **Serge Balyuk** Chief Technology Officer
- **Tim Santos** Chief Product Officer
- **Marissa Miller** Head of Applied Data Science
- **Andrew Ladd** Senior Customer Success Manager
- **Chad Morgan** UX Director
- **Chelsea Hạnh Hoang** Equity and Data Associate
- **Connor Emmel** Director of Financial Institutions
- **David Katz** Director of Product
- **Denis Velichuk** Senior Front End Engineer
- **Dima Ermilov** Data Engineer
- **Dmytro Kasianchuk** Associate Data Engineer
- **Lauren Mason** Customer Success Manager
- **MacKenzie Silvia** Senior Customer Success Manager
- **Markiyan Kashchiy** Staff Data Engineer

And 15 more on the team.

## Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

**Seed** 2011 **Seed** 2012 **Seed** 2012 **Seed** 2013 **Seed** 2013 **Seed** 2013 **Seed** 2016 [Expansion Venture Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/expansion-venture-capital) [Mark Cuban](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mark-cuban) [Kima Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kima-ventures) [Joseph Melohn](https://millionrounds.com/fund/joseph-melohn) [Sound Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sound-ventures) [Rothenberg Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/rothenberg-ventures) [Jeremie Berrebi](https://millionrounds.com/fund/jeremie-berrebi) [Telegraph Hill Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/telegraph-hill-capital) [Eric Kagan](https://millionrounds.com/fund/eric-kagan) [Zachary Aarons](https://millionrounds.com/fund/zachary-aarons)

## Everyone who backed them

[Expansion Venture Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/expansion-venture-capital) VC firm **4** rounds

[Mark Cuban](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mark-cuban) Angel **3** rounds

[Kima Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kima-ventures) VC firm **2** rounds

[Joseph Melohn](https://millionrounds.com/fund/joseph-melohn) Angel **2** rounds

[Sound Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sound-ventures) VC firm **1** round

[Rothenberg Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/rothenberg-ventures) VC firm **1** round

[Jeremie Berrebi](https://millionrounds.com/fund/jeremie-berrebi) VC firm **1** round

[Telegraph Hill Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/telegraph-hill-capital) VC firm **1** round

[Eric Kagan](https://millionrounds.com/fund/eric-kagan) Angel **1** round

[Zachary Aarons](https://millionrounds.com/fund/zachary-aarons) Angel **1** round

[Mark Kingdon](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mark-kingdon) Angel **1** round

[Mike Rothenberg](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mike-rothenberg) Angel **1** round

Anselm Adams no record of our own yet **1** round

Pili Cora no record of our own yet **1** round

Varun Dalal no record of our own yet **1** round

Missing a round, or an investor who was in one? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=apptopia).

## Also claim to have backed them

These 5 firms list Apptopia as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.

[TSVC](https://millionrounds.com/fund/tsv-capital) VC firm Per its own site

[Riverside Acceleration Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/riverside-acceleration-capital) Growth equity Per its own site

[Blossom Street Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/blossom-street-ventures) VC firm Per its own site

[CSC Upshot](https://millionrounds.com/fund/csc-upshot-ventures) VC firm Per its own site

[Upshot Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/upshot-ventures) VC firm Per its own site

## Quick answers about Apptopia

### Who invested in Apptopia?

Apptopia's investors include Expansion Venture Capital, Mark Cuban, Kima Ventures, Joseph Melohn and Sound Ventures, and 10 more on record.

### How much has Apptopia raised?

Apptopia has raised $4.4M across 7 rounds since 2011.

### When did Apptopia last raise?

Apptopia's most recent round was a Seed of $2.7M in Nov 2016.

### What was Apptopia's biggest round?

Its most recent round, $2.7M in Nov 2016, is also its largest on record.

### Who backed Apptopia first?

Apptopia's first round on record, in Oct 2011, was backed by Expansion Venture Capital.

### What stage is Apptopia at?

Apptopia's latest named round is a Seed, in Nov 2016.

### Where is Apptopia based?

Apptopia is based in the United States.

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