FJ Labs

FJ Labs is a U.S.-based investment firm established in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. The firm operates with a stage-agnostic approach, primarily targeting marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. FJ Labs focuses its investments on seed and Series A rounds, with a financial commitment ranging from $50,000 to $5,000,000. The firm has invested in a variety of notable companies, including Alibaba Group, beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, and ADORE ME.

Matias Barbero

Investor

Zineb Belghiti

Associate

Camila Bustamante

Analyst

Andres Santos Cantu

Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Investor

Agapitos Diakogiannis

Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Investor

Nancy Dong

Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Investor

Vivian Graves

Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Investor

Fabrice Grinda

Founding Partner

William Guillouard

Venture Partner

Arne Halleraker

Partner

Mark Lurie

Venture Partner

Jose Marin

Founding Partner

Martin Pustilnick

Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Investor

Guimar Vaca Sittic

Venture Partner

Luke Skertich

Investor

Kelly Tully

Head of Platform / Investor

Jeff Weinstein

Partner

Andrea Xu

Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Investor

Past deals in Africa

Alterya

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Simple, safe, and compliant access to web3

Faks

Seed Round in 2023
Faks is an app development company. The company's application allows users to send faster requests, track the status of the requests, and settle any complaints, enabling the pharmacists to maintain a secure relationship with supplier laboratories.

NymCard

Venture Round in 2022
NymCard is a next generation issuer processor payment platform, which is reinventing payment cards through state-of-the-art infrastructure offered to banks and other financial institutions in Africa and the Middle East. We enables financial institutions to issue innovative digital payment products in regions that have historically dealt with extremely low penetration of payment cards. Utilizing powerful open API’s and Mobile SDK’s, our clients can now offer plastic, virtual, or tokenized cards to mobile end-users in as little as 8 weeks.

Jabu

Series A in 2022
Provider of tech-based supply chain and logistics services intended to power how shop owners order, source, and stock their products. The company facilitates efficient logistics, sales, and inventory management through phone and web applications to control and distribute inventory, manage sales, and dispatch orders, pick up orders from the warehouse and manage efficient routes, place orders, request credit, manage inventory, make payments, and save capital, enabling businesses to grow their businesses through product diversification, inventory management, and PO financing.

Yassir

Series A in 2021
Yassir Inc offers ride sharing services through its mobile application. It offers Yassir Go, a mobile application that allows users to book a driver anywhere and anytime. In addition, it also provides Yassir Go, a mobile application for ordering food online. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Algiers, Algeria.

Sendbox

Seed Round in 2021
Sendbox Software Technologies Limited develops a tech-enabled platform which provides shipping, escrow payments, and discovery services to merchants and customers who carry out e-commerce transactions on social media platforms. Its platform provides services, such as pick up and drop-offs, tracking and notifications, integrations, automatic scheduling and routing, cash handling and remittance, and nationwide delivery services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Alerzo

Series A in 2021
Alerzo offers on-demand inventory distribution and financial services for small informal stores while also providing real time market trends, customer's feedback and other consumer purchasing data to brands and manufacturers.

Trella

Venture Round in 2021
Trella is a platform that connects shippers to carriers. Trella offers services and technology to empower drivers, improve their efficiency, boost their earnings and utilization as well as creating job opportunities. Trella aims to reduce costs for shippers, introduce a transparent pricing structure and provide them with a more reliable source of carriers. All the while allowing them to track their shipments in real-time as well as report key insights on their transportation trends and performance.

inyad

Series A in 2021
SaaS, Point of sale system

Jabu

Seed Round in 2021
Provider of tech-based supply chain and logistics services intended to power how shop owners order, source, and stock their products. The company facilitates efficient logistics, sales, and inventory management through phone and web applications to control and distribute inventory, manage sales, and dispatch orders, pick up orders from the warehouse and manage efficient routes, place orders, request credit, manage inventory, make payments, and save capital, enabling businesses to grow their businesses through product diversification, inventory management, and PO financing.

Vivense

Series D in 2018
Vivense is an online retail company based in Turkey that specializes in furniture products. The platform connects customers directly with furniture manufacturers, providing a diverse selection of items, including sofas, chairs, tables, beds, and dining furniture. By facilitating online orders, Vivense enhances the shopping experience for consumers, and it offers free delivery on select products, making it convenient for customers to receive their purchases.

Lori Systems

Seed Round in 2018
Lori Systems Corp. develops, owns, and operates a logistics platform that helps to connect transport with cargo. It serves transporters and cargo owners. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya with additional offices in Mombasa, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda; and Lagos, Nigeria.

Lori Systems

Seed Round in 2017
Lori Systems Corp. develops, owns, and operates a logistics platform that helps to connect transport with cargo. It serves transporters and cargo owners. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya with additional offices in Mombasa, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda; and Lagos, Nigeria.