FJ Labs

FJ Labs, established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, is a stage-agnostic investment firm focusing on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. It invests in seed and series A rounds, with a typical investment range of $50,000 to $5,000,000. The firm's portfolio includes notable companies such as Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest, spanning sectors like e-commerce, fintech, and ad tech.

Matias Barbero

Investor

Zineb Belghiti

Operations Associate

William Guillouard

Operating Partner

Arne Halleraker

Principal

Christopher Keshian

Investor

Ariel Lebowits

CFO

Jose Marin

Co-Founder

Güimar Vaca Sittic

Venture Partner

Jeff Weinstein

Partner

Past deals in Compliance

Comun

Series A in 2024
Comun provides an app-based platform that delivers digital banking services tailored for Latinos in the United States. The platform allows new users to apply for an FDIC-secured deposit account and a VISA debit card in under two minutes. Users benefit from access to over 55,000 ATMs throughout North America, exceptional customer service in both Spanish and English, and advanced fraud detection features to enhance security. Comun also offers free and instant transfers through its internal payments system, ComunYa, and allows users to receive their paychecks up to two days early with Direct Deposit. By addressing the unique financial needs of Latino communities, Comun aims to promote financial stability and empower users to achieve greater financial freedom.

Flowie

Seed Round in 2024
Flowie is a developer of an invoicing platform designed to streamline financial transactions between companies. The platform integrates the procure-to-pay and order-to-cash processes, allowing businesses to automate their workflows and manage invoices efficiently. By centralizing accounts receivable and payable information, Flowie's solution provides clients with essential insights into their financial operations, helping them manage payments from customers and disbursements to suppliers effectively. Additionally, the platform ensures compliance with EU regulations, making it a reliable tool for organizations seeking to enhance their invoicing processes.

Comun

Series A in 2024
Comun provides an app-based platform that delivers digital banking services tailored for Latinos in the United States. The platform allows new users to apply for an FDIC-secured deposit account and a VISA debit card in under two minutes. Users benefit from access to over 55,000 ATMs throughout North America, exceptional customer service in both Spanish and English, and advanced fraud detection features to enhance security. Comun also offers free and instant transfers through its internal payments system, ComunYa, and allows users to receive their paychecks up to two days early with Direct Deposit. By addressing the unique financial needs of Latino communities, Comun aims to promote financial stability and empower users to achieve greater financial freedom.

ValidMind

Seed Round in 2024
ValidMind specializes in artificial intelligence governance and risk management, focusing on the financial services sector's need to manage risks associated with AI and machine learning models. The company's platform automates essential elements of the AI/ML model risk management process, enhancing accuracy and consistency in documentation, validation, testing, and audit tracking. This solution enables financial institutions to effectively navigate the complexities of AI technologies while ensuring regulatory compliance and risk mitigation. ValidMind aims to foster a secure and ethical AI ecosystem, positioning itself as a key partner for organizations seeking to responsibly adopt AI advancements, including large language models. The team at ValidMind comprises experienced professionals with strong technical and academic backgrounds, committed to guiding clients through the evolving regulatory landscape and promoting societal well-being.

Lend

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Lend provides a platform for companies to ease the process of setting up credit operations in full compliance with regulatory policies.

Simetrik

Series B in 2024
Simetrik, founded in 2017 and based in Bogotá, Colombia, provides verification and reconciliation services for transactional data, focusing on financial control and automation for corporate clients. The company offers a no-code/low-code platform that enhances efficiency and productivity, allowing finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automations for a variety of use cases. Simetrik's secure big data infrastructure supports high volumes of data while mitigating operational, compliance, and reputational risks. Currently, it reconciles $75 billion in total payment volume annually across 28 countries, serving notable clients such as Mercado Pago, Rappi Bank, and NuBank. The platform integrates various data sources, regardless of origin or format, enabling businesses to gain control over their financial movements and receive accurate results at a reduced cost.

January

Series B in 2023
January is a developer of a data-driven financial platform that focuses on providing end-to-end resolution services for delinquent and charged-off consumer loans. The platform aims to build and enforce trust in consumer finance by addressing the challenges faced by borrowers in delinquency and default, such as harassment, hidden fees, and damaged credit scores. At the same time, it helps creditors recover lost funds while mitigating compliance and operational risks. By utilizing technology, January offers a streamlined and effective resolution process that caters to the unique financial situations and preferences of borrowers, ultimately fostering a more trustworthy relationship between borrowers and creditors.

QI Tech

Secondary Market in 2023
QI Tech is a Brazilian company that provides a comprehensive banking-as-a-service platform, specializing in financial, credit, banking, and anti-fraud services. It holds both SCD and DTVM licenses from the Brazilian Central Bank, allowing it to deliver a complete technological infrastructure for clients and partners. The company's platform integrates regulatory compliance with intelligent technology, enabling clients to securely offer payment and credit services customized to their specific business models. QI Tech's offerings include automated financial tools for debt issuance, credit analysis, and receivables management, thereby facilitating the entry and management of banking systems within the FinTech market.

Shyft

Convertible Note in 2023
Shyft Network Inc, founded in 2017 and based in Barbados, operates a blockchain-based digital identity network aimed at enhancing regulatory compliance and data security. As a subsidiary of Bitfury USA, Inc., Shyft focuses on aggregating existing protocols to create a standardized approach to anti-money laundering verification. The network offers robust data protection and features such as a bridge watcher system to detect and deter threats. It provides users with granular control over their information, allowing them to decide what data to share, with whom, and for what purposes. Shyft also facilitates incentivized data exchange, enabling businesses to improve personal information security while accessing valuable compliance-satisfying data.

QI Tech

Secondary Market in 2023
QI Tech is a Brazilian company that provides a comprehensive banking-as-a-service platform, specializing in financial, credit, banking, and anti-fraud services. It holds both SCD and DTVM licenses from the Brazilian Central Bank, allowing it to deliver a complete technological infrastructure for clients and partners. The company's platform integrates regulatory compliance with intelligent technology, enabling clients to securely offer payment and credit services customized to their specific business models. QI Tech's offerings include automated financial tools for debt issuance, credit analysis, and receivables management, thereby facilitating the entry and management of banking systems within the FinTech market.

Simetrik

Series A in 2023
Simetrik, founded in 2017 and based in Bogotá, Colombia, provides verification and reconciliation services for transactional data, focusing on financial control and automation for corporate clients. The company offers a no-code/low-code platform that enhances efficiency and productivity, allowing finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automations for a variety of use cases. Simetrik's secure big data infrastructure supports high volumes of data while mitigating operational, compliance, and reputational risks. Currently, it reconciles $75 billion in total payment volume annually across 28 countries, serving notable clients such as Mercado Pago, Rappi Bank, and NuBank. The platform integrates various data sources, regardless of origin or format, enabling businesses to gain control over their financial movements and receive accurate results at a reduced cost.

Comun

Seed Round in 2023
Comun provides an app-based platform that delivers digital banking services tailored for Latinos in the United States. The platform allows new users to apply for an FDIC-secured deposit account and a VISA debit card in under two minutes. Users benefit from access to over 55,000 ATMs throughout North America, exceptional customer service in both Spanish and English, and advanced fraud detection features to enhance security. Comun also offers free and instant transfers through its internal payments system, ComunYa, and allows users to receive their paychecks up to two days early with Direct Deposit. By addressing the unique financial needs of Latino communities, Comun aims to promote financial stability and empower users to achieve greater financial freedom.

Alterya

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

Alterya

Seed Round in 2022
Simple, safe, and compliant access to web3

Fonoa

Series B in 2022
Fonoa is a tax automation platform that provides businesses with a comprehensive solution for managing tax compliance and obligations. The company's software enables users to authenticate tax IDs, compute applicable taxes, generate e-invoices, report transactions, and file tax returns seamlessly. By automating the determination and calculation of tax rates for sales transactions, Fonoa helps streamline the entire transactional process. Additionally, it offers services such as invoicing compliance and country-specific reporting, allowing tax managers to efficiently handle their responsibilities while reducing stress associated with tax compliance.

Whistic

Series B in 2022
Whistic, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that focuses on evaluating and quantifying IT security risks related to SaaS vendors. Founded in 2015 and based in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Whistic provides an AI-powered solution that empowers information security and compliance teams to manage third-party risk effectively. The platform simplifies the vendor risk assessment process, allowing organizations to establish and maintain custom third-party risk management (TPRM) programs while meeting regulatory compliance and audit requirements through automation. Whistic's Trust Catalog facilitates seamless connections between vendors and their customers, enabling the exchange of security and compliance information without the need for manual assessments. This centralized solution not only helps organizations track vendor lifecycles but also streamlines responses to security review requests, ultimately reducing the risk of data breaches.

kycDAO

Pre Seed Round in 2022
kycDAO operates a multichain platform that specializes in issuing reusable, on-chain Know Your Customer (KYC) verifications. This platform provides decentralized digital identity and financial verification services, allowing users to establish a secure digital identity for cryptocurrency transactions. By creating non-transferable and non-fungible cryptographic tokens, kycDAO enables individuals and entities to streamline their verification processes while maintaining privacy and security. The platform's innovative approach facilitates the efficient management of KYC requirements across various services, promoting confidence and compliance in digital interactions.

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.

Simetrik

Series A in 2022
Simetrik, founded in 2017 and based in Bogotá, Colombia, provides verification and reconciliation services for transactional data, focusing on financial control and automation for corporate clients. The company offers a no-code/low-code platform that enhances efficiency and productivity, allowing finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automations for a variety of use cases. Simetrik's secure big data infrastructure supports high volumes of data while mitigating operational, compliance, and reputational risks. Currently, it reconciles $75 billion in total payment volume annually across 28 countries, serving notable clients such as Mercado Pago, Rappi Bank, and NuBank. The platform integrates various data sources, regardless of origin or format, enabling businesses to gain control over their financial movements and receive accurate results at a reduced cost.

Comun

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Comun provides an app-based platform that delivers digital banking services tailored for Latinos in the United States. The platform allows new users to apply for an FDIC-secured deposit account and a VISA debit card in under two minutes. Users benefit from access to over 55,000 ATMs throughout North America, exceptional customer service in both Spanish and English, and advanced fraud detection features to enhance security. Comun also offers free and instant transfers through its internal payments system, ComunYa, and allows users to receive their paychecks up to two days early with Direct Deposit. By addressing the unique financial needs of Latino communities, Comun aims to promote financial stability and empower users to achieve greater financial freedom.

Fonoa

Series A in 2021
Fonoa is a tax automation platform that provides businesses with a comprehensive solution for managing tax compliance and obligations. The company's software enables users to authenticate tax IDs, compute applicable taxes, generate e-invoices, report transactions, and file tax returns seamlessly. By automating the determination and calculation of tax rates for sales transactions, Fonoa helps streamline the entire transactional process. Additionally, it offers services such as invoicing compliance and country-specific reporting, allowing tax managers to efficiently handle their responsibilities while reducing stress associated with tax compliance.

LoginID

Seed Round in 2020
LoginID Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in secure biometrics software. Founded in 2018, LoginID focuses on enhancing security for websites, applications, and eCommerce platforms by integrating biometric authentication features. The company aims to lead the market in user identity protection, offering individuals secure control over their personal information through a decentralized network that complies with privacy regulations. LoginID addresses privacy and compliance challenges using three main pillars: Strong Customer Authentication, Data Privacy, and Tokenization of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). It provides a variety of APIs and SDKs that allow enterprises to implement FIDO-certified authentication quickly and cost-effectively, ensuring compliance with regulations such as PSD2 and GDPR while simplifying the integration of strong authentication solutions.

Fonoa

Seed Round in 2020
Fonoa is a tax automation platform that provides businesses with a comprehensive solution for managing tax compliance and obligations. The company's software enables users to authenticate tax IDs, compute applicable taxes, generate e-invoices, report transactions, and file tax returns seamlessly. By automating the determination and calculation of tax rates for sales transactions, Fonoa helps streamline the entire transactional process. Additionally, it offers services such as invoicing compliance and country-specific reporting, allowing tax managers to efficiently handle their responsibilities while reducing stress associated with tax compliance.

Whistic

Series A in 2020
Whistic, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that focuses on evaluating and quantifying IT security risks related to SaaS vendors. Founded in 2015 and based in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Whistic provides an AI-powered solution that empowers information security and compliance teams to manage third-party risk effectively. The platform simplifies the vendor risk assessment process, allowing organizations to establish and maintain custom third-party risk management (TPRM) programs while meeting regulatory compliance and audit requirements through automation. Whistic's Trust Catalog facilitates seamless connections between vendors and their customers, enabling the exchange of security and compliance information without the need for manual assessments. This centralized solution not only helps organizations track vendor lifecycles but also streamlines responses to security review requests, ultimately reducing the risk of data breaches.

Shyft

Series A in 2020
Shyft Network Inc, founded in 2017 and based in Barbados, operates a blockchain-based digital identity network aimed at enhancing regulatory compliance and data security. As a subsidiary of Bitfury USA, Inc., Shyft focuses on aggregating existing protocols to create a standardized approach to anti-money laundering verification. The network offers robust data protection and features such as a bridge watcher system to detect and deter threats. It provides users with granular control over their information, allowing them to decide what data to share, with whom, and for what purposes. Shyft also facilitates incentivized data exchange, enabling businesses to improve personal information security while accessing valuable compliance-satisfying data.

Whistic

Venture Round in 2019
Whistic, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that focuses on evaluating and quantifying IT security risks related to SaaS vendors. Founded in 2015 and based in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Whistic provides an AI-powered solution that empowers information security and compliance teams to manage third-party risk effectively. The platform simplifies the vendor risk assessment process, allowing organizations to establish and maintain custom third-party risk management (TPRM) programs while meeting regulatory compliance and audit requirements through automation. Whistic's Trust Catalog facilitates seamless connections between vendors and their customers, enabling the exchange of security and compliance information without the need for manual assessments. This centralized solution not only helps organizations track vendor lifecycles but also streamlines responses to security review requests, ultimately reducing the risk of data breaches.

Securitize

Series A in 2018
Securitize, Inc. operates a compliance platform designed for the issuance and management of digital securities. Founded in 2017 and based in Redwood City, California, the company facilitates various services for issuers, including digital security issuance, document handling, investor communications, and accreditation. For investors, Securitize offers features such as wallet management, an investor dashboard, and token distribution. The platform also includes support services like fiat and crypto escrow, along with custodial services. Securitize is distinguished as the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated U.S.-based marketplaces, enabling eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities across sectors like equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. The company's approach enhances transparency, liquidity, and efficiency in the tokenization process, while also providing KYC/AML and capital management services.
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