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.
Meez is a developer of a professional recipe platform that focuses on enhancing culinary operations through technology. The platform provides a comprehensive recipe database that is collaborative and shareable, allowing users to ideate, organize, and execute their culinary visions. Key features include precise ingredient costing, automated scaling and conversions, customized training, and specialized allergen identification. This functionality enables cooks to streamline their recipe development process, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in both planning and execution. Meez aims to support culinary professionals by facilitating better recipe management and collaboration within the food industry.
Kitchenita is a Buenos Aires based startup that creates data-driven food concepts for delivery. Through data analysis and proprietary technology, we launch online native food brands that we position in the top 10 of its vertical in less than a month.
FoodByUs offers an online platform that enables its users to find, buy, and sell a range of food, including doughnuts, cupcakes, pies, and more. FoodByUs enables local food sellers to promote their products. FoodByUs was founded in 2016 and is based in Sydney, Australia.
SCiFi Foods, known as Artemys, Inc., is a biotechnology company based in San Leandro, California, founded in 2019. The company specializes in producing meat and meat products through innovative methods that cultivate meat from animal cells rather than relying on traditional animal harvesting. This approach allows SCiFi Foods to create next-generation meat alternatives, promoting sustainability in food production. The company aims to revolutionize the meat industry by offering a more humane and environmentally friendly way to provide protein to consumers.
Procsea is the first business-to-business seafood marketplace. Procsea specialises in the trade of traceable wild and farmed seafood, connecting buyers and sellers together in real time. Buyers have access to a multitude of carefully selected suppliers, directly from the European ports, without the middle man.
Frubana S.A.S. is a Bogotá-based B2B platform established in 2018 that specializes in providing fruits, vegetables, and other agricultural products to restaurants and small retailers in Latin America. By eliminating intermediaries in the food supply chain, Frubana enhances price transparency and reduces barriers to trade, allowing restaurants to source ingredients directly from producers. The company operates an online store that facilitates logistics and builds trust within the marketplace, ensuring that clients have access to quality food products efficiently.
PopChef launched at Paris Founders Event Winter 2015 and they were curious to get some updates on this flavourful, fairly-price, conscious business, but firstly let’s find out how everything started out and the obstacles these three young entrepreneurs faced along the way.
Produce Pay was first conceived at Cornell University. With strong support from experienced faculty and the student body, it was able to rapidly gain momentum. Produce Pay obtained recognition from Cornell’s entrepreneurial community and was soon dubbed "The Next Johnson Start-Up," in reference to Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Reshaping your food experience with the only automated restaurant for your workplace. Stay safe, stay on-site with real food, cooked anytime powered by our plug-&-play Smart Cooking System.
Foodza is a B2B food-distribution platform that connects farmers, food producers and importers directly with Retail and HoReCa businesses across CIS region. We are creating an innovative technology-driven logistics platform that enables on-demand harvesting of vegetables, fruits and also meat and dairy production. Foodza provides mobile-app and web-based interfaces that help farmers interact directly with retailers in a fast and easy way, and we also manage "door-to-door" logistics and fulfillment solutions inspired by the on-demand power of internet applications. Our mission is to remove all middlemen in the food supply industry, return farmers higher income and provide retailers with higher quality fresh produce.
Procsea is the first business-to-business seafood marketplace. Procsea specialises in the trade of traceable wild and farmed seafood, connecting buyers and sellers together in real time. Buyers have access to a multitude of carefully selected suppliers, directly from the European ports, without the middle man.
Formerly Known as Forage. Din helps you cook like your favorite restaurant at home in 20 min. Din partners with notable restaurants and chefs like Bar Tartine, Tacolicious, and James Beard 2015 Rising Star Chef Jessica Largey to deliver everything you need to recreate their dishes at home. Din’s team, led by Michelin Star veteran Stephen Beaumier formerly of Cyrus, Quince and Restaurant Noma, does much of the timeintensive prep work for you, like braising meats and creating complex sauces, so you can finish the dish in under 20 minutes, as quickly as a restaurant can fire a dish. Then they deliver the prepped and whole ingredients in an insulated, reusable tote to your home.