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What does Expansion Ventures invest in?
Expansion Ventures invests most often at Series A and Seed (83% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Aerospace, Defence and Satellite.
Expansion Ventures highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Seed: 83% of its rounds
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Led 2 rounds
What they do
Expansion is a European DeepTech investment fund focused on Sustainable Aerospace & Defence.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- AerospaceDefenceSatellite
- Based in
- Paris, France
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first8 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Apr
- 2025
2 rounds
- Sept
- Apr
- 2018
1 round
- Jan
- 2017
4 rounds
- Nov
- Jun
- May
- Feb
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
GPGil PenchinaManaging PartneriFiling they signed
JBJens BeyrichAttorney-in-factiFiling they signed
RARichard A. SmissenManager of Expansion Fulfillment LLC, the Issuer's General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 3 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
18 of 27 we have independently watched raise
AldoriaAlta AresArkadiaAtmosDcubedExoBiosphereIon-XLatitudeLook UpMessiumMiratlasOrbifyReorbitSkynopyThe Exploration CompanyU-SpaceUnivityWaltR404 not foundAscendance-ftEOS TechnologiesESG PolicyHandcrafted by Ligne8 StudioHyPrSpacePassword protectedSpace CargoZephalto
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.