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 London

Passionfruit

Seed Round in 2022
Passionfruit is bringing together the next generation of leading independent marketing talent and providing a digital home where they can work, learn and earn, so startups and enterprises can work with them 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.

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

Seed Round in 2022
Layer is a machine learning company offering a metadata store, a model registry, and experiment tracking.

Headout

Series B in 2022
Headout Inc. operates a mobile marketplace that allows travelers to discover and book last-minute tours, activities, and local experiences. The company's application, available on iOS and Android devices, enables users to secure tickets for a variety of experiences, including food tours, walking tours, cruises, and adventure activities such as kayaking and skydiving. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in London and Dubai, Headout focuses on providing travelers with access to local events and attractions in a seamless manner, allowing bookings to be completed in just a few taps.

Zen Educate

Funding Round in 2021
Zen Educate Limited is a company that operates an online platform designed to connect teachers, teaching assistants, and cover supervisors with job opportunities in schools. The application facilitates the recruitment process for short-term, long-term, and permanent roles, allowing educators to easily find suitable positions. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in Manchester, Zen Educate aims to streamline the employment process within the education sector.

Earnr

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Earnr is a finance and tax service aimed at the U.K. creator economy and people doing “side-hustle” businesses. The company was founded in 2020 by Anil Nair, Enzo Ottens, and Jamie Leverton.

Learnerbly

Series A in 2021
Learnerbly is an online workplace learning platform founded in 2016 and based in London, United Kingdom. The platform enables organizations to create tailored learning experiences by allowing users to develop company-specific playlists, share knowledge internally, and upload relevant content. Additionally, it facilitates the organization of internal events to promote continuous learning. Learnerbly focuses on empowering employees to take charge of their professional development by guiding them toward appropriate learning opportunities and supporting the application of their new skills. The platform has been adopted by innovative companies, including Ideo, Ustwo, and Vouchercodes, to enhance employee growth and foster a culture of learning within the workplace.

Headout

Series B in 2021
Headout Inc. operates a mobile marketplace that allows travelers to discover and book last-minute tours, activities, and local experiences. The company's application, available on iOS and Android devices, enables users to secure tickets for a variety of experiences, including food tours, walking tours, cruises, and adventure activities such as kayaking and skydiving. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in London and Dubai, Headout focuses on providing travelers with access to local events and attractions in a seamless manner, allowing bookings to be completed in just a few taps.

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.

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.

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.

Manual

Series A in 2021
By empowering men with all the information and choices they need to proactively own their wellbeing, we can turn a corner. We’re here to be your own personal manual. A guide to owning your health and happiness. Giving you all the tools you need to be good to you.

Rapyd

Series D in 2021
Rapyd is a mobile financial network that makes the world’s favorite ways to pay and be paid instantly available through a single API and SDK. Its platform and API brings together local financial specialists from every corner of the world to make the 100s of ways people pay available around the world. It enables ecommerce merchants, gig platforms, challenger wallets, remittance platforms, online lenders, and even traditional banks to break free of their old infrastructure and limitations and create new mobile-friendly solutions.

YardLink

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

Headout

Seed Round in 2020
Headout Inc. operates a mobile marketplace that allows travelers to discover and book last-minute tours, activities, and local experiences. The company's application, available on iOS and Android devices, enables users to secure tickets for a variety of experiences, including food tours, walking tours, cruises, and adventure activities such as kayaking and skydiving. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in London and Dubai, Headout focuses on providing travelers with access to local events and attractions in a seamless manner, allowing bookings to be completed in just a few taps.

Stotles

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Hometree

Series A in 2020
Hometree Marketplace Limited is a UK-based company that specializes in providing home improvement and energy services to homeowners. Established in 2015 and headquartered in London, the company offers a variety of services including annual boiler maintenance, plumbing, electrical work, and home energy solutions. Hometree provides comprehensive home cover plans that protect against breakdowns in heating, plumbing, and electrical systems, as well as installation and financing options for renewable energy technologies. This range of services is designed to simplify home management for homeowners, giving them greater control and peace of mind regarding their home maintenance and energy consumption.

Let’s Do This

Seed Round in 2019
Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet. It helps race organizers to reach an engaged community of participants and endurance sports enthusiasts, offering a dedicated platform to provide detailed event information, news, and special offers. Find and book the best running, triathlon, cycling and obstacle events in the UK and around the world. Whether it's a 5k fun run or tenth Ironman Triathlon, Let's Do This is the best place to find the perfect race. It was founded in 2016 by Alex Rose and Sam Browne who are both passionate runners and cyclists. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an office in London, United Kingdom.

Fresha

Series B in 2019
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.

Beacon

Seed Round in 2019
Beacon Technologies Ltd., trading as Beacon, operates a platform that offers freight forwarding and supply chain financing services. It offers global ocean, air, and truck freight forwarding; real-time data of cargo deliveries; and marketplace view of international shipping costs. The company also offers credit facility to pay for international and local suppliers, deferred freight, VAT, and duty costs. Beacon Technologies Ltd. was formerly known as Global Technology Holdings Ltd and changed its name to Beacon Technologies Ltd. in May 2020. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

AkinovA

Series A in 2019
AkinovA Limited operates an independent electronic marketplace designed for the transfer and trading of re/insurance risks. Founded in 2017 and based in Marylebone, United Kingdom, the company provides its online platform to brokers and capital market participants, facilitating insurance advisory services and the management of client portfolios, capital, and risk. AkinovA collaborates with prominent players in the insurance sector, including Hiscox and MS&AD Insurance Group, as well as venture capital firms such as FJ Labs and FinTLV, to enhance its offerings while maintaining its independence in the market. The company aims to integrate with the existing re/insurance value chain to promote market growth.

Fresha

Venture Round in 2018
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.

Spotahome

Series B in 2018
Spotahome, S.L. is an online platform that specializes in mid to long-term accommodation rentals, catering primarily to expatriates, students, and professionals moving abroad. Established in March 2014 and based in Madrid, Spain, Spotahome offers a wide selection of personally-checked properties, including rooms, apartments, and student dorms, across various cities such as Milan, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, and London. The platform features detailed property descriptions, high-quality photographs, HD video tours, and floor plans, enabling tenants to make informed decisions without needing to conduct in-person viewings. By allowing users to secure accommodations for over a month in advance, Spotahome simplifies the housing search process for individuals relocating to Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the UK.

Hometree

Seed Round in 2018
Hometree Marketplace Limited is a UK-based company that specializes in providing home improvement and energy services to homeowners. Established in 2015 and headquartered in London, the company offers a variety of services including annual boiler maintenance, plumbing, electrical work, and home energy solutions. Hometree provides comprehensive home cover plans that protect against breakdowns in heating, plumbing, and electrical systems, as well as installation and financing options for renewable energy technologies. This range of services is designed to simplify home management for homeowners, giving them greater control and peace of mind regarding their home maintenance and energy consumption.

Vortexa

Seed Round in 2018
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.

Codex Protocol

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Codex is the decentralized title registry for the $2 trillion arts & collectibles (“A&C”) ecosystem, which includes art, fine wine, collectible cars, antiques, decorative arts, coins, watches, jewelry, and more. Powered by the BidDex native token, the Codex Protocol is open source, allowing third party players in the A&C ecosystem to build applications and utilize the title system. Codex’s landmark application, Biddable, is a title-escrow system built on the Codex protocol, which solves long-standing challenges in auctions: non-performing bidders, lack of privacy, and bidder access.

Muzz

Seed Round in 2017
Muzmatch have helped thousands of Arab and Muslim singles worldwide find love and someone to share their lives with. As one of the leading Arab dating and Muslim dating apps, they're committed to helping our members find the best possible matches.

Hometree

Seed Round in 2017
Hometree Marketplace Limited is a UK-based company that specializes in providing home improvement and energy services to homeowners. Established in 2015 and headquartered in London, the company offers a variety of services including annual boiler maintenance, plumbing, electrical work, and home energy solutions. Hometree provides comprehensive home cover plans that protect against breakdowns in heating, plumbing, and electrical systems, as well as installation and financing options for renewable energy technologies. This range of services is designed to simplify home management for homeowners, giving them greater control and peace of mind regarding their home maintenance and energy consumption.

Second Home

Convertible Note in 2016
Second Home Ltd. is a workspace provider that leases and operates office spaces tailored for entrepreneurs, innovators, and social enterprises. Founded in 2014 by Rohan Silva, Samuel Aldenton, and Robin Klein, the company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. In addition to its London base, Second Home has expanded its presence to Lisbon and Los Angeles, offering unique environments designed to foster creativity and collaboration among its members. The company's commitment to supporting entrepreneurs and creative businesses is reflected in its innovative workspace solutions.

Farfetch

Series F in 2016
Farfetch operates an online luxury fashion retail platform that connects various independent boutiques worldwide. Founded in 2008 by Jose Neves and headquartered in London, the company offers a wide range of products, including bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewelry, swimwear, trousers, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories for women, men, and children. Farfetch's modular technology platform is designed to meet the complex needs of consumers and luxury sellers, featuring an API-enabled proprietary technology stack that supports applications, services, and data management. Additionally, Farfetch has a dedicated division, Farfetch China, which focuses on enhancing connections within the luxury fashion industry in that market.

Second Home

Series A in 2016
Second Home Ltd. is a workspace provider that leases and operates office spaces tailored for entrepreneurs, innovators, and social enterprises. Founded in 2014 by Rohan Silva, Samuel Aldenton, and Robin Klein, the company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. In addition to its London base, Second Home has expanded its presence to Lisbon and Los Angeles, offering unique environments designed to foster creativity and collaboration among its members. The company's commitment to supporting entrepreneurs and creative businesses is reflected in its innovative workspace solutions.

eve Sleep

Seed Round in 2015
Eve was created to challenge everything the sleepy mattress industry represents. As such, it is more than a mattress. It is a pioneer for change, an advocate for ease and a champion for fairness. They created eve to revolutionise every aspect of buying one of the most important items in your home.

Flaviar

Seed Round in 2014
Flaviar, a spirits tasting club, offers a subscription service that helps members discover new liquor products through sample tasting packs. Subscribers are given access to rare and original spirits, invite them to great events, and keep them educated and entertained with booze-themed content and receive personalized samples and complimentary bottles every month. Flaviar was established by Grisa Soba and Jugoslav Petkovic and was headquartered in London, England since 2012.