FJ Labs

FJ Labs is a venture capital firm based in New York, founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. The firm is stage-agnostic, focusing on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, with a particular emphasis on sectors such as B2B, B2C, financial services, mobile technology, advertisement technology, e-commerce, food technology, gaming, health technology, real estate technology, restaurant technology, ridesharing, SaaS, and virtual reality. FJ Labs invests primarily in seed and Series A rounds, with an investment range between $50,000 and $5,000,000. The firm has backed notable companies including Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, ADORE ME, and Earnest.

Matias Barbero

Venture Capital

Zineb Belghiti

Analyst

Camila Bustamante

Investor

William Guillouard

Operating Partner

Arne Halleraker

Partner

Erez Kalir

Venture Partner

Chris Keshian

Investor

Ariel Lebowits

CFO

Jose Marin

Founding Partner

Anshul Ruparell

Founder

Luke Skertich

Investor

Andrea Xu

Investor

Past deals in Europe

Fourvenues

Venture Round in 2023
Fourvenues offers an event management software that facilitates various aspects of online sales and reservations for venues. Its platform provides tools for managing payments, booking reservations, and overseeing space and table allocations. The software enables organizers to track public relations efforts, analyze performance metrics, and understand attendee preferences, fostering customer loyalty. Additionally, it includes features such as guest list management, VIP reservations, marketing support, and reporting capabilities. Users can also create microsites and access a private database for enhanced customer relationship management, making Fourvenues a comprehensive solution for promoters and venue managers looking to optimize their operations.

Evernest

Convertible Note in 2023
Evernest offers a data-driven service platform and gives its customers a transparent, and personal purchase and sales experience. It offers its buyers and sellers a customer experience that reflects the emotional and financial importance of their own home.

Rive

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Kodit.io is redefining how people buy, sell, and rent homes by eliminating time-consuming and costly procedures related to every real estate transaction. The company offers instant buying and data-driven brokerage services to home sellers and freshly renovated and safe city apartments for home buyers. Quick, easy, and transparent. Since being founded in 2017, the company has transacted homes worth over 90M euros and raised 121M in funding. The team comes from a colorful range of backgrounds, all the way from entrepreneurship to academics and Nordea to Harvard Business School. As of December 2020, Kodit.io consists of 45+ people from 7 different nationalities. Kodit.io is headquartered in Helsinki and is operating in all the major cities in Finland as well as Warsaw, Poland, and Madrid, Spain. Kodit.io service concept is developed by Homerun Technologies Ltd. You can find more about us: www.kodit.io/en

Secfi

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Secfi, Inc. is a company that specializes in pre-wealth advisory solutions, focusing on equity planning and financing for startup employees and founders. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Amsterdam, Secfi offers tools and resources designed to help private company shareholders make informed financial decisions regarding their equity from the offer stage to an initial public offering. The company provides options exercise and shareholder financing solutions, along with educational resources and guidance from licensed equity strategists. By simplifying the complexities of equity compensation, Secfi aims to empower employees to better understand their financial options and concentrate on their passions.

Choose

Series A in 2023
Choose is a simple yet aesthetic mobile app where users get to discover amazing curated items. They may vote for their favorite products in order to unlock rewards and more personalized contents thanks to a powerful recommendation system. Exit the long-term studies, brands can now showcase their fanciest products while studying the growing enthusiasm for them in real time and on a global scale. Choose give brands better customer insights and help them to match their short-term needs for launching new concepts.

Fuell

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Fuell Technologies, S.L. is a Madrid-based company that specializes in issuing corporate credit cards and providing expense management software for businesses. Founded in 2019, Fuell's platform integrates a corporate card with expense management tools, allowing companies to manage spending in real-time and set budgets without the need for traditional expense reports. The service includes features such as automatic budget updates, credit increases as businesses grow, and cashbacks on various expenditures, including rideshare, fuel, dining, and recruitment services. This innovative approach aims to streamline financial management, offering businesses greater control over their expenses and enhancing operational efficiency.

APLANET

Series A in 2023
Aplanet is a developer of a cloud-based software platform focused on social responsibility and sustainability management. The company aims to integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) objectives into the core operations of organizations. Its comprehensive suite of tools allows businesses to manage, measure, and showcase their social impact effectively. Aplanet's platform offers various products centered on community engagement, sustainability practices, and materiality, which help organizations analyze their performance and make informed decisions. By providing subscription-based pricing modules, Aplanet enables organizations to optimize their strategies for maximizing positive societal impact while enhancing stakeholder value.

Alterya

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

Faks

Seed Round in 2023
Faks is an app development company that specializes in creating mobile applications for the pharmaceutical industry. Its primary product is an application designed to streamline communication between pharmacists and laboratories. The app enables users to send requests quickly, track the status of those requests, and address any complaints that may arise. By facilitating these interactions, Faks helps pharmacists maintain secure and efficient relationships with supplier laboratories, ultimately enhancing the overall workflow within the pharmaceutical sector.

Spectinga

Seed Round in 2022
Spectinga operates an online auction platform specifically designed for heavy equipment traders. The company focuses on both the new and used machinery market, providing a convenient space for used equipment dealers, hire companies, traders, and franchise dealers to buy and sell machinery. By facilitating online transactions, Spectinga enables clients to access a wider range of equipment at competitive prices, streamlining the trading process for heavy machinery. Headquartered in Glasgow, the company aims to enhance the efficiency and accessibility of heavy equipment trading through its e-commerce platform.

Fonoa

Series B in 2022
Fonoa specializes in tax automation and compliance software for various sectors, including marketplaces, digital content platforms, ride-sharing, food delivery, and SaaS. The company offers a technology platform that integrates business model specifics with tax compliance requirements, allowing clients to minimize manual workloads and operational costs while ensuring adherence to tax regulations as they expand globally. Fonoa's product suite includes features for verifying customer Tax IDs, accurately determining indirect tax rates, generating locally compliant invoices, and facilitating real-time reporting to tax authorities. By employing an API-first approach, Fonoa's modular solutions operate efficiently, requiring minimal user intervention, thus simplifying the management of tax obligations for businesses.

Passionfruit

Seed Round in 2022
Passionfruit is a platform designed to connect independent marketing professionals with startups and enterprises seeking marketing support. By creating a digital space for freelancers, Passionfruit allows companies to access a diverse pool of highly-vetted marketing talent, including experts in digital marketing, branding, public relations, and content creation. This model aims to alleviate the challenges of hiring, enabling businesses to collaborate efficiently with skilled independent workers. Passionfruit's approach facilitates growth for companies by streamlining the process of finding and engaging specialized marketing professionals on demand.

Stotles

Seed Round in 2022
Stotles is giving suppliers to government the tools and insights required to effectively find and win public-sector contracts. They aggregate and standardize huge amounts of data in order to give suppliers a complete view of thier market and surface the most relevant opportunites and intelligence in real time. Stotles is ensuring the best fit suppliers work with governments by bringing transparency to the £7Tn that flows from governments to businesses every year.

Neol

Seed Round in 2022
Neol is a platform designed to facilitate learning and collaboration among creative individuals and innovators in a decentralized environment. It offers services focused on organizational design, leadership development, brand creation, campaign management, and behavioral marketing. By leveraging a curated global community, Neol enables users to address challenges and shape their futures through cohort-based learning and innovation. The platform aims to empower creative leaders and talent to work together effectively, fostering a collaborative approach to problem-solving.

Laserhub

Series B in 2022
Laserhub GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Stuttgart, Germany, operates as a leading procurement platform for industrial metal parts in Germany, Austria, and France. The company specializes in the production and distribution of customized sheet metal components, offering a range of services including laser cutting, bending and folding, deburring, thread cutting, powder coating, and laser engraving for materials such as steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and copper. Laserhub's multivendor marketplace digitizes and automates procurement processes, facilitating efficient order management for custom-made metal parts in the fields of sheet metal, turning, and milling. This platform helps manufacturing companies and their suppliers reduce costs associated with both processes and parts.

byrd

Series C in 2022
byrd technologies GmbH is a third-party logistics and fulfillment company based in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2016. The company specializes in digital fulfillment services tailored for e-commerce businesses, offering solutions such as warehousing, pick and pack, shipping, quality control, and batch fulfillment. By operating an extensive fulfillment network, byrd connects online merchants with an international warehouse system, enabling retailers to provide advanced shipping options without the need to establish their own logistics infrastructure. The platform integrates seamlessly with popular e-commerce systems like Shopify and collaborates with logistics partners across multiple countries. In addition to its core markets in Germany and Austria, byrd has expanded its operations to include fulfillment locations in the UK and plans to launch new sites in the Netherlands and France. With the capacity to ship 10,000 orders daily from over ten warehouses, the company manages a storage space exceeding 500,000 square meters while also offering services like shipment tracking and product return management.

Spotawheel

Series B in 2022
Spotawheel is a technology-driven dealership specializing in used cars, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Nea Ionia, Greece. The company operates primarily in Greece and Poland, focusing on providing customers with a trustworthy platform for purchasing certified pre-owned vehicles. Spotawheel aims to enhance customer confidence by ensuring that only high-quality cars are available for sale. By leveraging technology, the company seeks to streamline the buying process and improve the overall experience for consumers in the used car market.

CountX

Pre Seed Round in 2022
CountX operates a value-added tax automation platform designed to simplify and enhance compliance with international sales tax regulations. The company's services focus on the automated collection and processing of tax-relevant data, enabling online retailers to efficiently manage their sales tax obligations. By integrating with Amazon seller accounts and enterprise resource planning systems, CountX's platform automatically pulls, processes, and verifies data, streamlining the preparation of value-added tax returns. This comprehensive approach provides retailers with a one-stop solution for navigating sales tax issues in the e-commerce landscape.

Wectory

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Wectory is a financial technology company that offers a mobile application designed to facilitate rental payments for landlords and tenants. Through its platform, landlords can receive upfront funding for rental payments, allowing them to request up to twelve months of rent as a single payment. This arrangement provides landlords with immediate cash flow, which can be used for personal or housing-related expenses. The application also includes features such as one-touch or automated payments, reminders, reports, and payment schedules, streamlining the rental payment process. Tenants benefit by making regular payments directly to Wectory’s account to repay the landlord's debt, creating a structured and efficient financial arrangement for both parties.

Layer AI

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of machine learning operations platform designed to seamlessly implement machine learning. The company's end-to-end data operating system provides a unified data layer to perform data science through a simplified, collaborative, and automated platform as well as makes data science accessible to companies of all sizes, enabling clients to optimize productivity and leverage consistent insights for data-driven business logic and decisions.

TaxDown

Seed Round in 2022
TaxDown, S.L., founded in 2019 and based in Madrid, Spain, operates an online platform that simplifies the tax filing process for users. The company enables taxpayers to file their income tax returns easily by collecting data from official and public sources. As a collaborator with the Tax Agency, TaxDown allows users to present their income statements directly through its platform. The service features advanced data validation and an algorithm designed to identify all available deductions, maximizing potential savings for users. This digital solution has positioned TaxDown as a pioneer in the field of online tax advice, offering an efficient and automated method for managing tax obligations.

Blidz

Seed Round in 2022
Blidz is a mobile shopping app founded in 2017 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. It operates in the US, Canada, and Australia, offering a unique online shopping experience that combines gamification and artificial intelligence. Inspired by the Chinese platform Pinduoduo, Blidz transforms the traditional shopping process into an engaging activity by incorporating game mechanics that make finding deals entertaining. The app provides tailored offers and innovative flash deals, enhancing user engagement while allowing customers to enjoy the thrill of a bargain hunt.

Vivla

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Vivla is a real estate service provider that specializes in second homeownership by facilitating the buying, owning, and selling of fractional shares in second homes. The company streamlines the entire process for its clients, managing all aspects from the initial purchase to legal and administrative tasks, as well as ongoing property management. This approach allows individuals to invest in fully managed second homes without the need to purchase an entire property, making vacation home ownership more accessible and convenient.

Moove

Series A in 2022
Operator of a global mobility fintech company intended to democratize access to financial services for mobility entrepreneurs. The company uses embedded alternative credit scoring technology in ride-hailing, logistics, mass transit, and instant delivery platforms, using proprietary performance and revenue analytics to underwrite customers that have previously been excluded from financial services, enabling customers to access and use proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.

Headout

Series B in 2022
Headout Inc. is a last-minute mobile marketplace that enables travelers to discover and book a wide range of tours, activities, and local experiences. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, with additional offices in London and Dubai, Headout offers an application compatible with iOS and Android devices. This platform allows users to easily secure tickets for various activities, including food tours, walking tours, cruises, and adventure experiences such as kayaking and skydiving, all within a 24-hour timeframe. By providing a user-friendly interface that requires just a few taps, Headout connects travelers with exceptional local experiences at competitive prices, catering to the demands of a fragmented industry.

Dott

Series B in 2022
Dott is a micro-mobility company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, specializing in shared e-scooters and e-bikes for short-distance travel. Founded in 2018, Dott aims to provide convenient and sustainable transportation alternatives within urban environments. The company has assembled a team of experienced professionals from the mobility and technology sectors in Europe. Recently, Dott secured an initial investment of €20 million to support its growth and expansion efforts.

Kanda

Seed Round in 2022
Kanda Products and Services Ltd operates a financial platform that supports tradespeople by providing tools for quoting, invoicing, and financing. The company enables tradespeople to offer financing options to their customers, facilitating the conversion of leads and ensuring timely payments. Kanda's software includes an estimating tool that allows contractors to send detailed estimates while offering escrow financing for clients who may struggle to pay upfront. This approach not only enhances the competitiveness of tradespeople but also makes it more affordable for homeowners to engage in necessary work on their properties. Founded in 2018 and based in Redditch, United Kingdom, Kanda was previously known as Trade Smart (Holdings) Limited before rebranding in April 2018.

Doctrio

Seed Round in 2022
Operator of a medical knowledge platform intended to offer effective training for healthcare professionals in real time. The company's platform offers online courses and searches for recommendations, articles, and treatments to improve patient care with the help of practical training designed by experts, enabling healthcare professionals to access specialty knowledge from a single platform.

Evernest

Series A in 2022
Evernest offers a data-driven service platform and gives its customers a transparent, and personal purchase and sales experience. It offers its buyers and sellers a customer experience that reflects the emotional and financial importance of their own home.

Taptap Send

Series B in 2021
Taptap Send is an app that lets immigrants send money back home to Africa instantly and at very low prices. Since launching in summer 2018, it has already moved tens of millions of dollars and reached tens of thousands of customers. It is live in seven European countries, and support payments into Senegal, Mali, Zambia, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, with more countries launching soon.

Zen Educate

Funding Round in 2021
Zen Educate Limited is a staffing platform founded in 2016 and based in London, with an additional office in Manchester, United Kingdom. The company operates an online application that connects teachers, teaching assistants, and cover supervisors with schools seeking short-term, long-term, and permanent staffing solutions. By leveraging technology, Zen Educate aims to facilitate quality matches between educational institutions and qualified professionals, including tutors and teaching assistants. This platform not only streamlines the hiring process for schools but also provides job opportunities for educators in the UK.

Playtomic

Series C in 2021
Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digital age. Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Comet

Secondary Market in 2021
Comet SAS operates an online platform that connects technology and data freelancers with companies seeking their expertise. Founded in 2016 and based in Paris, France, the platform utilizes advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence to evaluate and match freelancers to organizational needs effectively. Comet aims to provide a beneficial experience for both freelancers and companies, ensuring that businesses have access to the required skills while offering freelancers engaging projects with a sense of security. By fostering an interactive community of skilled professionals, Comet enhances the recruitment process in the tech and data sectors.

Lumaly

Convertible Note in 2021
Operator of an online platform designed to search and offer discount coupons for online shopping. The company's platform searches and detects savings opportunities automatically and applies the relevant discount coupon code at checkout, which includes deal discovery to rewards and savings and provides features to boost checkout conversions and drive additional traffic for retailers, enabling users to save money when shopping online.

Earnr

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Earnr is a finance and tax service tailored for the U.K. creator economy and individuals engaged in side-hustle businesses. Founded in 2020 by Anil Nair, Enzo Ottens, and Jamie Leverton, the company provides a platform that automates financial management and tax submissions. Users can import bank transactions, monitor their earnings, and streamline their tax return processes. By facilitating a comprehensive record of self-employed income, Earnr helps users save time on organizing their finances and completing tax filings, making financial management more accessible for freelancers and entrepreneurs.

Learnerbly

Series A in 2021
Learnerbly is a London-based company that has developed an online workplace learning platform aimed at enhancing the professional growth of employees. Founded in 2016, the platform allows organizations to create tailored learning experiences by curating company-specific playlists and facilitating the sharing of internal knowledge. It empowers users to take charge of their development by guiding them toward relevant learning opportunities and supporting them in applying their new skills. Learnerbly partners with forward-thinking businesses to provide a diverse range of curated content, enabling employees to accelerate their career progress. The platform also connects users with internships and entry-level job opportunities, fostering a practical learning environment that benefits both individuals and organizations.

APLANET

Seed Round in 2021
Aplanet is a developer of a cloud-based software platform focused on social responsibility and sustainability management. The company aims to integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) objectives into the core operations of organizations. Its comprehensive suite of tools allows businesses to manage, measure, and showcase their social impact effectively. Aplanet's platform offers various products centered on community engagement, sustainability practices, and materiality, which help organizations analyze their performance and make informed decisions. By providing subscription-based pricing modules, Aplanet enables organizations to optimize their strategies for maximizing positive societal impact while enhancing stakeholder value.

Convious

Series A in 2021
Convious is a company that offers a SaaS-based eCommerce platform tailored for the leisure industry, enabling businesses to implement a direct-to-consumer strategy. The platform enhances the entire customer journey by providing tools for ads management, native applications, dynamic pricing, conversion optimization, and loyalty management. Utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning, Convious continuously evaluates and improves the customer experience, purchasing process, and pricing strategies. Its algorithms automate customer pricing based on external variables, helping businesses increase conversion rates and profit margins while reducing reliance on third-party sellers. This approach allows companies to maintain brand control and gain deeper customer insights, ultimately driving revenue through direct bookings.

Talewind

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a metaverse game development studio intended to create high-quality, immersive experiences for the metaverse. The company offers games full of quirky characters, fun, and secrets that are designed to be fun, social, and collaborative to create high-quality, immersive experiences that will help to shape the future of the metaverse, enabling gamers to enjoy the experiences of a new wave of metaverse platforms and get a unique opportunity to interact with each other in real-time.

Fonoa

Series A in 2021
Fonoa specializes in tax automation and compliance software for various sectors, including marketplaces, digital content platforms, ride-sharing, food delivery, and SaaS. The company offers a technology platform that integrates business model specifics with tax compliance requirements, allowing clients to minimize manual workloads and operational costs while ensuring adherence to tax regulations as they expand globally. Fonoa's product suite includes features for verifying customer Tax IDs, accurately determining indirect tax rates, generating locally compliant invoices, and facilitating real-time reporting to tax authorities. By employing an API-first approach, Fonoa's modular solutions operate efficiently, requiring minimal user intervention, thus simplifying the management of tax obligations for businesses.

Singulart

Series B in 2021
Singulart operates an online art gallery platform that connects art lovers with a diverse range of invited artists from around the globe. The platform empowers artists to independently manage the sale of their works, facilitating a transparent and equitable art market. Singulart's commitment to promoting its artists allows art enthusiasts and collectors to discover and purchase unique pieces they might not encounter elsewhere. By showcasing a wide array of artistic expressions, Singulart enriches the cultural experience for its users, encouraging exploration and inspiration through the global art community.

Packhelp

Series B in 2021
Packhelp sp. z o.o. is a packaging manufacturer based in Warsaw, Poland, founded in 2015. The company specializes in designing and producing custom-branded packaging products, including mailer and shipping boxes made from corrugated cardboard, as well as smaller boxes for items like cosmetics and jewelry. Packhelp provides an online platform that allows users to create and order their own packaging designs through a web application. Its services cater to a diverse clientele, including online stores, physical retailers, agencies, and various enterprises, addressing their specific packaging needs with options for production, engineering, prototyping, and supply chain optimization.

Teya

Series C in 2021
SaltPay is a FinTech company dedicated to building a better future for merchants by servicing them through payment and management tools. Focused on efficiency, technology, and people, they give merchants the help they need to grow.

Cleverea

Seed Round in 2021
Cleverea is the P&C neoinsurer for the millennial generation. We focus on a B2B2C distribution strategy with partners like neobanks, insurers/insurtechs, brokers, airlines, etc. We conceptually design, technologically develop and stretegically distribute highly disruptive insurance products across the whole customer journey.

Juni

Series A in 2021
Juni Technology AB is a fintech company based in Göteborg, Sweden, that specializes in developing a Software-as-a-Service banking application and platform tailored for e-commerce and online marketing entrepreneurs. Founded in 2020, Juni aims to empower digital entrepreneurs by providing tools that enhance decision-making and facilitate business growth. The platform is designed to help users optimize their operations and leverage the opportunities within the digital commerce landscape.

Simundia

Venture Round in 2021
Simundia SAS, founded in 2016 and based in Paris, France, specializes in providing digital coaching services aimed at enhancing professional development. The company offers a platform that delivers personalized coaching experiences, focusing on convenience, discretion, and affordability. Through its innovative approach, Simundia equips business managers with the tools needed to improve their soft skills and effectively address various challenges in the workplace. By emphasizing a short-distance format, the platform fosters awareness around different themes, thereby supporting professionals in their personal and career growth.

Goin

Series A in 2021
Goin is a mobile application designed to help users save money effortlessly and invest without prior knowledge. Founded by three Spanish entrepreneurs, Goin utilizes machine learning algorithms to accumulate savings through small daily actions, such as rounding up payments. The app targets Millennials, a demographic that often struggles with saving, by offering an easy-to-use tool that enhances financial management. Users begin by answering questions about their spending habits, which allows the app to suggest tailored saving methods. Once users add money to the app, they have the flexibility to transfer funds to various investment options, including cryptocurrencies and equity funds, or withdraw to their bank accounts. Goin's innovative approach aims to simplify personal finance and promote a better lifestyle for its users.

Beacon

Series B in 2021
Beacon Technologies Ltd. is a London-based company that specializes in freight forwarding and supply chain financing services. The firm offers a comprehensive platform that facilitates global ocean, air, and truck freight forwarding, providing clients with real-time data on cargo deliveries. Additionally, Beacon features a marketplace that allows users to access information on international shipping costs. The company also provides credit facilities to help businesses manage payments to suppliers, covering international and local expenses, as well as deferred freight, VAT, and duty costs. Established in 2018 and formerly known as Global Technology Holdings Ltd., Beacon has positioned itself as a key player in the logistics and supply chain finance sector.

Katoo

Seed Round in 2021
Katoo is a food procurement platform designed to streamline the ordering process for restaurants and suppliers. It enables restaurants to easily communicate with their suppliers, place orders with a single click, and track their past purchases through a mobile application. The platform standardizes order formats for suppliers, fostering better connections between clients and their suppliers. By facilitating these interactions, Katoo empowers users to manage orders efficiently and gather valuable insights into their purchasing patterns, ultimately enhancing the food supply chain.

Flexcavo

Seed Round in 2021
Flexcavo GmbH rents construction machinery online and offline. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Rosenheim, Germany.

Genially

Series B in 2021
Genially Web S.L. operates a web portal for creating presentations. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Cordoba, Spain.

Jus Mundi

Series A in 2021
Jus Mundi is a legal technology company based in Paris, France, incorporated in 2018. It operates a search engine focused on public international law and investor-state arbitration, providing access to a comprehensive set of documents from courts and tribunals. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to facilitate legal research, allowing legal professionals to easily find and analyze reliable information on international law, arbitration, and related fields. By structuring global legal data, Jus Mundi supports lawyers and academics in their efforts to simplify the research process and enhances their ability to conduct informed analyses. The company aims to contribute to global justice and uphold the international rule of law through its innovative services.

Gurucall

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gurucall is an online marketplace that facilitates access to expert advice through one-on-one or group interactions. The platform is designed to support organizations and individuals by offering insights and experiences from knowledgeable professionals. Users can engage with experts to learn new skills, gain inspiration, and make informed decisions based on real-world perspectives. By connecting people with the expertise they seek, Gurucall aims to empower users in their personal and professional growth, fostering an environment of knowledge sharing and enriched learning experiences.

Headout

Series B in 2021
Headout Inc. is a last-minute mobile marketplace that enables travelers to discover and book a wide range of tours, activities, and local experiences. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, with additional offices in London and Dubai, Headout offers an application compatible with iOS and Android devices. This platform allows users to easily secure tickets for various activities, including food tours, walking tours, cruises, and adventure experiences such as kayaking and skydiving, all within a 24-hour timeframe. By providing a user-friendly interface that requires just a few taps, Headout connects travelers with exceptional local experiences at competitive prices, catering to the demands of a fragmented industry.

Beckley Psytech

Series B in 2021
Beckley Psytech Limited manufactures psychedelic drug for treating psychiatric and neurological diseases. Beckley Psytech Limited was formerly known as Beckley Psychedelics Limited and changed its name to Beckley Psytech Limited in May 2020. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Airfarm

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a networking application dedicated to improving communication within agriculture and making it more transparent. The company's platform combines digitization and agriculture to bring together diverse expertise from agriculture, technology consulting, innovation and finance, enabling farmers and agricultural partners to network, inform, share content and exchange ideas.

Chrono24

Series C in 2021
Chrono24 GmbH is an online marketplace specializing in luxury and collector's watches for men and women. Founded in 2003 and based in Karlsruhe, Germany, Chrono24 connects buyers and sellers on a global scale, offering a platform where users can search for and purchase a wide variety of watches, including chronographs, pilot watches, automatic, and mechanical timepieces from numerous brands. The platform features listings from over 3,000 professional dealers and 20,000 private sellers, showcasing more than 475,000 watches. With a monthly audience of over 20 million watch enthusiasts from more than 100 countries, Chrono24 has established itself as a leader in the global watch market.

Pensight

Venture Round in 2021
Pensight is a platform that facilitates the connection between experts and audiences through paid live video consultations. It provides tools for monetizing knowledge by allowing users to launch digital products, courses, memberships, and coaching services. The platform supports automated payments and scheduling, integrates with calendars, and enables seamless interactions with clients globally. By offering features for one-on-one video sessions and Q&A opportunities, Pensight helps educators and creators diversify their revenue streams and expand their business reach.

Lumaly

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of an online platform designed to search and offer discount coupons for online shopping. The company's platform searches and detects savings opportunities automatically and applies the relevant discount coupon code at checkout, which includes deal discovery to rewards and savings and provides features to boost checkout conversions and drive additional traffic for retailers, enabling users to save money when shopping online.

Lumaly

Convertible Note in 2021
Operator of an online platform designed to search and offer discount coupons for online shopping. The company's platform searches and detects savings opportunities automatically and applies the relevant discount coupon code at checkout, which includes deal discovery to rewards and savings and provides features to boost checkout conversions and drive additional traffic for retailers, enabling users to save money when shopping online.

Casafari

Series A in 2021
Casafari LLC is a real estate metasearch company based in Lisbon that offers property search solutions for real estate professionals and institutional investors in Germany, Spain, and Portugal. The company focuses on enhancing transparency in the real estate market by building a comprehensive database of properties. It collects and analyzes data on property prices, collaborates with various real estate agencies, and aggregates listings from multiple sources. Utilizing proprietary technology, Casafari cleans, deduplicates, and evaluates property information in real-time, enabling users to identify lucrative investment opportunities. Additionally, the platform provides predictive analytics, alerts for new listings and price changes, and status tracking to help users stay informed about market developments and optimize their property transactions.

Space Forge

Seed Round in 2021
Space Forge Limited is a company based in Bristol, United Kingdom, that focuses on the development of reusable satellites. Established in 2018, the company specializes in manufacturing super materials, including unique alloys and crystals, that are produced in space and cannot be replicated on Earth. These materials have applications across various industries, including computing, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals. Space Forge operates laboratories in Bristol and Wales to facilitate its research and production activities.

byrd

Series B in 2021
byrd technologies GmbH is a third-party logistics and fulfillment company based in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2016. The company specializes in digital fulfillment services tailored for e-commerce businesses, offering solutions such as warehousing, pick and pack, shipping, quality control, and batch fulfillment. By operating an extensive fulfillment network, byrd connects online merchants with an international warehouse system, enabling retailers to provide advanced shipping options without the need to establish their own logistics infrastructure. The platform integrates seamlessly with popular e-commerce systems like Shopify and collaborates with logistics partners across multiple countries. In addition to its core markets in Germany and Austria, byrd has expanded its operations to include fulfillment locations in the UK and plans to launch new sites in the Netherlands and France. With the capacity to ship 10,000 orders daily from over ten warehouses, the company manages a storage space exceeding 500,000 square meters while also offering services like shipment tracking and product return management.

Angell

Venture Round in 2021
Angell is an e-bike startup focused on enhancing urban mobility through innovative design and technology. The company manufactures one of the lightest electric bicycles on the market, featuring a rounded aluminum frame and carbon rim for improved performance. Each e-bike is equipped with a smart cockpit that provides riders with essential information, including battery charge, distance traveled, air quality, and various riding modes. Additionally, Angell's e-bikes incorporate a unique safety system that offers vibrating navigation assistance via the handlebars, a fall alert, and an anti-theft alarm. This combination of lightweight construction and advanced features aims to transform the everyday cycling experience in cities.

Lumenate

Seed Round in 2021
Driven by a desire to inspire people to live more fulfilling lives, Jay and Tom founded Lumenate in 2019. Through a series of rounds of customer research the pair focused their efforts on trying to make impactful subconscious exploration experiences more accessible than ever. From here, the team bought an EEG brain scanner and embarked on months of research identifying and optimising the ways to effortlessly guide people into powerful altered states of consciousness. The result, the Lumenate App, uses stroboscopic light from the phone's flash to guide users into a deeply meditative, semi-psychedelic state. This is then combined with theory from the world of psychedelic therapy (delivered under guidance of leading researchers) to transform this from an interesting experience into a powerful platform for personal growth and self-discovery.

Solaris

Venture Round in 2021
solarisBank AG develops a banking platform. Its platform enables startups, fintechs, and established digital companies to create custom solutions for their unique financial needs. The company also provides various compliant payment services, including e-money issuing and escrow solutions; support services for account creation and maintenance, and transaction services, as well as deposit and credit business. solarisBank AG is based in Berlin, Germany.

Fresha

Series C in 2021
Fresha is a SaaS-enabled marketplace platform for beauty and wellness industry. The platform takes the hassle out of running a business by managing appointment bookings, point-of-sale, customer records, human resources, inventory, and financial reporting. The consumer marketplace unlocks revenue potential for merchants by leveraging the power of online bookings and automated marketing through mobile apps and integrations to Instagram, Facebook and Google.

Fuell

Seed Round in 2021
Fuell Technologies, S.L. is a Madrid-based company that specializes in issuing corporate credit cards and providing expense management software for businesses. Founded in 2019, Fuell's platform integrates a corporate card with expense management tools, allowing companies to manage spending in real-time and set budgets without the need for traditional expense reports. The service includes features such as automatic budget updates, credit increases as businesses grow, and cashbacks on various expenditures, including rideshare, fuel, dining, and recruitment services. This innovative approach aims to streamline financial management, offering businesses greater control over their expenses and enhancing operational efficiency.

Wectory

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wectory is a financial technology company that offers a mobile application designed to facilitate rental payments for landlords and tenants. Through its platform, landlords can receive upfront funding for rental payments, allowing them to request up to twelve months of rent as a single payment. This arrangement provides landlords with immediate cash flow, which can be used for personal or housing-related expenses. The application also includes features such as one-touch or automated payments, reminders, reports, and payment schedules, streamlining the rental payment process. Tenants benefit by making regular payments directly to Wectory’s account to repay the landlord's debt, creating a structured and efficient financial arrangement for both parties.

NADUVI

Series A in 2021
Developer of a curated online marketplace intended to sell overstock interior designing products from various brands. The company's marketplace charges a fee from brands to sell their products and these products include furniture, bathroom fittings, and designer lights and receive updates on the collections, enabling customers to realize their conceptualized interior decoration using furniture and decorative accessories.

Dwarfs

Series A in 2021
Dwarfs is an e-commerce platform that buys and grows e-commerce brands on marketplaces.

Secfi

Debt Financing in 2021
Secfi, Inc. is a company that specializes in pre-wealth advisory solutions, focusing on equity planning and financing for startup employees and founders. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Amsterdam, Secfi offers tools and resources designed to help private company shareholders make informed financial decisions regarding their equity from the offer stage to an initial public offering. The company provides options exercise and shareholder financing solutions, along with educational resources and guidance from licensed equity strategists. By simplifying the complexities of equity compensation, Secfi aims to empower employees to better understand their financial options and concentrate on their passions.

Razor Group

Venture Round in 2021
Operator of a consumer goods holding company intended to invest and buy profitable brands. The company's marketplace combines advanced data analytics and custom-built technology, an optimized M&A process and in-house e-commerce and finance expertise to find suitable acquisition targets, enabling brands to scale profitable and demonstrate category leadership, better-quality products and customer reviews.

Dott

Series B in 2021
Dott is a micro-mobility company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, specializing in shared e-scooters and e-bikes for short-distance travel. Founded in 2018, Dott aims to provide convenient and sustainable transportation alternatives within urban environments. The company has assembled a team of experienced professionals from the mobility and technology sectors in Europe. Recently, Dott secured an initial investment of €20 million to support its growth and expansion efforts.

Scramble

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a consumer-packaged-investments company intended to help the general public invest in working capital loans. The company offers a pre-approved startup credit limit based on the estimate of the lifetime income of each co-founder, startups can set their fundraising goal and acceptable loan terms, and private investors can allocate capital to startups via monthly fundraising rounds, helping businesses to raise funds using secured high-yield debt financing.

MPB

Series D in 2021
MPB Europe Ltd, operating as mpb.com, is an online marketplace that specializes in the buying and selling of used photo and video equipment. Founded in 2008 and based in Brighton, UK, the company offers a wide variety of products, including digital SLR cameras, lenses, video cameras, and various accessories. MPB ensures a trusted experience for its users by physically checking, testing, and validating all items before resale, thereby meeting the expectations of buyers and providing instant payment to sellers. The platform facilitates over 100,000 transactions annually and supports a growing community of photographers and videographers. With a strong presence in the UK, Germany, and the US, MPB leverages custom technology to streamline peer-to-peer transactions, allowing for price control and a seamless trading experience. The company has received recognition for its rapid growth and innovation in marketplace technology, and it employs a global team across its offices in the UK and the US.

Manual

Series A in 2021
Manual is a wellness platform focused on promoting men's health by destigmatizing conversations surrounding various health issues. The platform provides users with guidance and resources to address concerns such as obesity, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, and general well-being. By offering accurate information and access to medical products, Manual empowers men to take control of their health and make informed decisions. The aim is to equip individuals with the necessary tools to enhance their overall happiness and wellness, fostering a proactive approach to personal health management.

Incode

Series A in 2021
Incode Technologies Inc. is a digital identity company specializing in biometric identity solutions that enhance customer experiences across banking, payments, hospitality, and retail sectors. The company has developed Incode Omni, an omnichannel platform that leverages artificial intelligence to provide secure identity verification through facial recognition and government-issued IDs. Its product suite includes Incode Hello, a chat and video conference solution; Incode Welcome, for applying for bank accounts or credit cards; Incode Facepay, a facial recognition payment system; Incode Talk, for app authentication; and Incode Greet. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Incode operates globally, with additional offices in Europe and Latin America. The company is recognized for its enterprise-grade facial recognition capabilities and serves some of the world's largest banks, financial institutions, and retailers, setting a high standard for convenience and security in digital identity verification.

TaxDown

Seed Round in 2021
TaxDown, S.L., founded in 2019 and based in Madrid, Spain, operates an online platform that simplifies the tax filing process for users. The company enables taxpayers to file their income tax returns easily by collecting data from official and public sources. As a collaborator with the Tax Agency, TaxDown allows users to present their income statements directly through its platform. The service features advanced data validation and an algorithm designed to identify all available deductions, maximizing potential savings for users. This digital solution has positioned TaxDown as a pioneer in the field of online tax advice, offering an efficient and automated method for managing tax obligations.

TradeBay

Seed Round in 2021
TradeBay is a global trading community. An online platform that lets buyers and sellers of fruit to connect and trade more efficiently. Our members instantly grow their network of trusted business partners, enjoy better opportunities and reach new markets - together we are enabling safer trade in a more transparent market.

MagaLoop

Seed Round in 2021
MagaLoop GmbH develops and operates an e-commerce platform for the retailers to order goods from suppliers. The company offers a mobile application and a web portal, MagaLoop, which allows kiosk operators and retailers to order goods from wholesale suppliers. It also provides marketing, communication, order optimization, promotions, advertising, and price optimization services to manufacturers and wholesalers. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Memmo.me

Series A in 2021
After thinking for a long time about the positive and emotional effect that occurs when you get personal contact with inspiring people, the idea of ​​memmo came to Gustav Lundberg Toresson and Tobias Bengtsdahl, when they were sitting as guests at different wedding dinners.

Vortexa

Series B in 2021
Vortexa Ltd is a London-based company established in 2016 that specializes in providing real-time information and analytics on crude oil and refined products, including fuel oil, diesel, jet fuel, gasoline, and more. The company offers insights into the movement of these products along trading routes, utilizing a cargo-by-cargo tracking approach. Vortexa's platform leverages artificial intelligence to analyze and interpret data from various sources, delivering comprehensive insights into waterborne energy trades. This enables energy and shipping companies to make informed trading decisions and enhance their competitive edge in the market.

Evernest

Venture Round in 2021
Evernest offers a data-driven service platform and gives its customers a transparent, and personal purchase and sales experience. It offers its buyers and sellers a customer experience that reflects the emotional and financial importance of their own home.

Creative Fabrica

Series A in 2021
Creative Fabrica B.V. is an online platform that specializes in selling fonts, graphics, and craft designs through a subscription model, making premium content from leading designers accessible at affordable prices. Founded in 2016 and based in Amsterdam, the company also allows designers to sell their creations on its portal. In addition to its extensive library of digital crafts and designs, Creative Fabrica offers a suite of creative tools, including Fontcloud for font management, Shapecloud for generating custom words, and Webfont for converting font files into web-compatible formats. The platform aims to reduce project costs and enhance productivity for its users by providing a diverse range of graphic design products.

Rapyd

Series D in 2021
Rapyd Financial Network operates as a mobile financial network that offers a comprehensive fintech-as-a-service platform designed to facilitate various payment services. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Singapore, Silicon Valley, and Tel Aviv, Rapyd provides a modular suite of services including funds collection, fund disbursements, eWallet management, compliance, foreign exchange, and card issuing. Its platform integrates local financial specialists globally, allowing ecommerce merchants, gig economy platforms, online lenders, and traditional banks to access multiple payment methods through a single API and SDK. This enables users to perform cash transactions easily, without the need for a bank account or card, thereby enhancing the financial infrastructure for diverse markets worldwide.

Job&talent

Series C in 2021
Job&Talent operates as an on-demand staffing marketplace designed to enhance the flexibility and transparency of the labor market. The platform addresses the growing demand from companies for adaptable hiring solutions while simultaneously working to reduce global unemployment. As the labor market shifts towards greater flexibility, workers often find themselves in precarious employment situations. Job&Talent offers a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) model that aims to create a mutually beneficial environment for both employers and employees. The company has established a presence in several countries, including the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, with plans for expansion into France and Italy.

tldr

Seed Round in 2020
tl;dr.io is a French company that specializes in creating concise summaries of engaging web content. Its platform enables users to view summaries of the web pages they are currently browsing, facilitating easier discovery and sharing of pertinent information. By offering human-written summaries, tl;dr.io aims to assist users in memorizing and accessing content that is most relevant to them.

Eneba

Series A in 2020
Eneba is a digital gaming marketplace that launched in late 2018, designed to help gamers find premium game deals. The platform features a vast selection of game titles across various genres, including action, adventure, role-playing, indie, first-person shooter, and strategy games, catering to multiple operating systems and platforms. Eneba aims to provide gaming communities worldwide with easy access to a diverse array of games at affordable prices, ensuring a safe and trustworthy purchasing experience. The company's commitment to professionalism and excellence has driven its rapid growth in the gaming industry.

Jeff

Series B in 2020
Mr Jeff Labs, S.L., founded in 2015 by Eloi Gómez, Adrián Lorenzo, and Rubén Muñoz in Valencia, Spain, offers a mobile application that initially focused on home laundry and dry-cleaning services. The company has since expanded its offerings to include a variety of everyday services such as hairdressing, beauty treatments, fitness, and massages, establishing itself as an international omnichannel ecosystem for day-to-day needs. Mr Jeff also provides opportunities for individuals to invest in or start their own businesses under the Jeff brand, facilitating entrepreneurship in the service sector.

Yardlink

Seed Round in 2020
YardLynk - the online marketplace and platform aimed at improving how construction equipment is rented out.

optilyz

Series A in 2020
optilyz GmbH is a Berlin-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in direct mail marketing automation. Its platform allows clients to efficiently design and manage customer addresses, track campaign performance, and integrate seamlessly with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. The service includes data mapping, address review, and the ability to run recurring campaigns. By offering a user-friendly tool for printing and sending letters, postcards, and self-mailers, optilyz enables companies to treat direct mail as an online channel, enhancing personalization and integration within cross-channel marketing strategies. The platform also provides analytics tools to optimize campaigns, helping businesses reduce customer acquisition costs in offline marketing. Notably, optilyz has gained traction among innovative companies and major brands across Europe.

Fonoa

Seed Round in 2020
Fonoa specializes in tax automation and compliance software for various sectors, including marketplaces, digital content platforms, ride-sharing, food delivery, and SaaS. The company offers a technology platform that integrates business model specifics with tax compliance requirements, allowing clients to minimize manual workloads and operational costs while ensuring adherence to tax regulations as they expand globally. Fonoa's product suite includes features for verifying customer Tax IDs, accurately determining indirect tax rates, generating locally compliant invoices, and facilitating real-time reporting to tax authorities. By employing an API-first approach, Fonoa's modular solutions operate efficiently, requiring minimal user intervention, thus simplifying the management of tax obligations for businesses.

Vamos

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2019 and based in  Madrid, Vamos’ mission is to change the way people have cars. By removing the traditional car ownership experience replacing it with technology and exceptional customer experience, Vamos offers consumers and sellers a convenient online Car as a Service platform.

Schrott24

Seed Round in 2020
Schrott24 is a B2B-focused managed marketplace for metal scrap. We help recyclers to source more material and scrap metal producers to market their metal waste more efficiently. Besides matching supply and demand, the fulfillment of transactions is processed through our proprietary technology. We digitalize processes and increase the efficiency of the recycling industry.

Razor Group

Venture Round in 2020
Operator of a consumer goods holding company intended to invest and buy profitable brands. The company's marketplace combines advanced data analytics and custom-built technology, an optimized M&A process and in-house e-commerce and finance expertise to find suitable acquisition targets, enabling brands to scale profitable and demonstrate category leadership, better-quality products and customer reviews.

Headout

Seed Round in 2020
Headout Inc. is a last-minute mobile marketplace that enables travelers to discover and book a wide range of tours, activities, and local experiences. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, with additional offices in London and Dubai, Headout offers an application compatible with iOS and Android devices. This platform allows users to easily secure tickets for various activities, including food tours, walking tours, cruises, and adventure experiences such as kayaking and skydiving, all within a 24-hour timeframe. By providing a user-friendly interface that requires just a few taps, Headout connects travelers with exceptional local experiences at competitive prices, catering to the demands of a fragmented industry.
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