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

Fabrice Grinda

Co-Founder

William Guillouard

Venture Partner

Arne Halleraker

Principal

Christopher Keshian

Investor

Ariel Lebowits

CFO

Jose Marin

Co-Founder

Güimar Vaca Sittic

Venture Partner

Jeff Weinstein

Principal

Past deals in Food Processing

Formic

Venture Round in 2024
Formic is a robotics company dedicated to enhancing automation in labor-intensive industries such as food and beverage, advanced manufacturing, and consumer packaged goods. The company focuses on making robotic deployments accessible and straightforward, offering manufacturers flexible automation solutions that allow them to pay based on productivity rather than upfront costs. By combining financial innovation with expertise in robotics, Formic enables businesses to scale their manufacturing capabilities quickly and with reduced risk. The company's mission is to democratize access to automation, ensuring that every factory can benefit from the efficiencies provided by advanced robotic systems.

Mealco

Convertible Note in 2023
Mealco is a food-tech platform focused on developing delivery-native food brands, aiming to bring popular cuisine directly to consumers' doorsteps. The company operates an online technology platform designed to help restaurants monetize their unused capacity. By transforming back-of-house resources into a digital-friendly operation, Mealco enables restaurants to manage high demand for online delivery while retaining their current staff. This approach allows restaurants to streamline their operations, expand their brand offerings, and enhance their online presence, ultimately maximizing customer reach.

Mealco

Seed Round in 2022
Mealco is a food-tech platform focused on developing delivery-native food brands, aiming to bring popular cuisine directly to consumers' doorsteps. The company operates an online technology platform designed to help restaurants monetize their unused capacity. By transforming back-of-house resources into a digital-friendly operation, Mealco enables restaurants to manage high demand for online delivery while retaining their current staff. This approach allows restaurants to streamline their operations, expand their brand offerings, and enhance their online presence, ultimately maximizing customer reach.

Red Sky

Seed Round in 2022
Red Sky is a logistics platform developer established in 2021 that specializes in connecting food processors and manufacturers with sourcing, cargo, and storage solutions. The company’s platform enhances the workflow for importers and exporters of Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Red Sky provides comprehensive management of logistics, dynamic payment terms, and a digital dashboard, allowing clients to gain complete visibility across their supply chain. This functionality aims to improve operational performance for businesses in the food processing and manufacturing sectors.

Kitchenita

Funding Round in 2022
Kitchenita is a Latin American startup focused on transforming the food delivery industry by leveraging data-driven food concepts. The company collaborates with leading food and beverage brands and renowned chefs to develop virtual restaurants that can achieve top rankings in various food categories within a month. Utilizing proprietary technology and data analysis, Kitchenita creates online native food brands, allowing partner restaurants to expand their operations efficiently and cost-effectively. By streamlining supply purchases and offering a comprehensive digitization system, Kitchenita aims to enhance the delivery experience while supporting the growth of its partners in the competitive food market.

Mealco

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Mealco is a food-tech platform focused on developing delivery-native food brands, aiming to bring popular cuisine directly to consumers' doorsteps. The company operates an online technology platform designed to help restaurants monetize their unused capacity. By transforming back-of-house resources into a digital-friendly operation, Mealco enables restaurants to manage high demand for online delivery while retaining their current staff. This approach allows restaurants to streamline their operations, expand their brand offerings, and enhance their online presence, ultimately maximizing customer reach.

SCiFi Foods

Series A in 2021
SCiFi Foods is a food technology company focused on producing cultivated meat that combines lab-grown beef cells with plant-based ingredients to create burgers that closely replicate the taste of traditional beef. The company aims to provide a sustainable and ethical alternative to conventional meat by utilizing bioengineering techniques to grow meat cells without relying on animal farming. SCiFi Foods has achieved significant advancements, including the successful growth of beef cells in suspension, which has the potential to drastically reduce production costs. Founded by CEO Joshua March and CTO Kasia Gora, PhD, the company has attracted $29 million in funding from prominent investors, positioning it for future growth in the alternative protein market.

Mealco

Seed Round in 2021
Mealco is a food-tech platform focused on developing delivery-native food brands, aiming to bring popular cuisine directly to consumers' doorsteps. The company operates an online technology platform designed to help restaurants monetize their unused capacity. By transforming back-of-house resources into a digital-friendly operation, Mealco enables restaurants to manage high demand for online delivery while retaining their current staff. This approach allows restaurants to streamline their operations, expand their brand offerings, and enhance their online presence, ultimately maximizing customer reach.

MUNCH:ON

Series B in 2020
MUNCH:ON is a food tech startup that has cracked the subscription space in the UAE & KSA, focusing on offering meals from the best restaurants at a significant discount and with free delivery. The company has invested heavily in its scheduling, bundling and order prediction software which has enabled it to achieve massive cost savings for its restaurant partners that they then pass on to their users, often offering up to a 55% discount vs. restaurants' regular price. Whether it's employees ordering from their company's curated menu or users ordering for their families at home, the platform takes the usual hassle and cost out of food delivery in a financially (and environmentally) sustainable manner for all stakeholders

Mealco

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Mealco is a food-tech platform focused on developing delivery-native food brands, aiming to bring popular cuisine directly to consumers' doorsteps. The company operates an online technology platform designed to help restaurants monetize their unused capacity. By transforming back-of-house resources into a digital-friendly operation, Mealco enables restaurants to manage high demand for online delivery while retaining their current staff. This approach allows restaurants to streamline their operations, expand their brand offerings, and enhance their online presence, ultimately maximizing customer reach.

SCiFi Foods

Pre Seed Round in 2020
SCiFi Foods is a food technology company focused on producing cultivated meat that combines lab-grown beef cells with plant-based ingredients to create burgers that closely replicate the taste of traditional beef. The company aims to provide a sustainable and ethical alternative to conventional meat by utilizing bioengineering techniques to grow meat cells without relying on animal farming. SCiFi Foods has achieved significant advancements, including the successful growth of beef cells in suspension, which has the potential to drastically reduce production costs. Founded by CEO Joshua March and CTO Kasia Gora, PhD, the company has attracted $29 million in funding from prominent investors, positioning it for future growth in the alternative protein market.

MUNCH:ON

Series A in 2019
MUNCH:ON is a food tech startup that has cracked the subscription space in the UAE & KSA, focusing on offering meals from the best restaurants at a significant discount and with free delivery. The company has invested heavily in its scheduling, bundling and order prediction software which has enabled it to achieve massive cost savings for its restaurant partners that they then pass on to their users, often offering up to a 55% discount vs. restaurants' regular price. Whether it's employees ordering from their company's curated menu or users ordering for their families at home, the platform takes the usual hassle and cost out of food delivery in a financially (and environmentally) sustainable manner for all stakeholders

Confident LIMS

Series A in 2019
Confident LIMS is a technology company focused on enhancing transparency in the legal cannabis sector. It operates the largest real-time database of legal cannabis, offering free software specifically designed for cannabis testing laboratories. This platform facilitates communication between producers and consumers, enabling producers to showcase product quality and potentially command higher prices. Retailers benefit from the ability to rate their supply, leading to more informed purchasing decisions. Additionally, consumers gain insights into product ingredients, promoting confidence in their purchases. The platform combines an intuitive interface with a network of laboratories and testing clients, allowing labs to attract and retain customers, streamline workflows, and ensure that clients receive lab-tested products from licensed and compliant vendors.

Foodza

Seed Round in 2018
Foodza is a B2B food-distribution platform that facilitates direct connections between farmers, food producers, and importers with retail and HoReCa businesses in the CIS region. The company has developed a technology-driven logistics platform designed for on-demand harvesting of fruits, vegetables, meat, and dairy products. Foodza offers both mobile app and web-based interfaces, allowing farmers to efficiently communicate with retailers. By managing "door-to-door" logistics and fulfillment, Foodza aims to eliminate middlemen in the food supply chain, thereby increasing farmers' incomes and providing retailers with higher quality fresh produce.
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