Hello, I’m Vítor (@vl)

I help startups go from 0 to 1

I’m Design Partner at Expa, a startup studio founded by Garrett Camp, co-founder of Uber. Expa has raised over $150m to support and fund new companies such as Aero, Eco, Metabase, Current, +50 others. I joined Expa’s founding team in 2013.

Prior to Expa, I was the first designer at Twitter. I was hired by @Ev in 2008 to work on Twitter’s first major redesign, and helped evolve the core product until late 2012. I left after having become the second longest tenured employee, helping Twitter scale to hundreds of millions of users.

I also co-founded and designed the original version of Envoy, the world-class visitor management system. Envoy raised $50m+ in venture capital from A16Z, Menlo Ventures, Initialized, and is used by thousands of companies including Tesla, Nike, and Slack. I switched to an advisory role post product-market fit.

I advise and invest in startups that are aligned with my vision for the future, including Every.org (Philanthropy), Compound (DeFi), SuperHi (Design Education), Aura (Consumer Hardware), HempGlobal (Manufacturing). I’m also a Limited Partner in Atlantico and Canary, venture funds focused in Brazil, my home country.

— Vítor (@vl)