FJ Labs

FJ Labs is a venture capital firm based in New York, founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. The firm is stage-agnostic, primarily focusing on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups across various sectors, including B2B, B2C, financial services, mobile technology, advertisement technology, e-commerce, food technology, gaming, health technology, real estate technology, restaurant technology, ridesharing, software as a service, and virtual reality. FJ Labs typically invests in seed and Series A rounds, with investment amounts ranging from $50,000 to $5,000,000.

Matias Barbero

Investor

William Guillouard

Venture Partner

Arne Halleraker

Principal

Christopher Keshian

Investor

Past deals in Oil and Gas Transportation

Haul

Seed Round in 2022
For CDL drivers looking for work, Haul is introducing a program that is a first for the industry. The business shows you the employment that best suit your lifestyle using our in-house developed algorithms. Haul was established on January 1, 2019 in San Mateo, California.

Yassir

Series A in 2021
Yassir is the leading super App for on-demand, ride-hailing, last-mile delivery, payment services, and more, set to change how daily services are provided. It currently operates in 45 cities across multiple countries. It has raised $150 million in Series B funding, five times what it raised in its previous priced round last November with world-class investors such as BOND and Y Combinator, which is the precursor of the likes of Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, and Doordash, among others. We offer on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. Building on this infrastructure, we are now introducing financial services to help users pay, save and borrow digitally. Helping usher the continent into a digital economy era. We’re not just about serving people - we’re about creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values. Yassir was founded in 2017 by Noureddine Taibi, and its headquarters is in Algiers, Algeria.

Trella

Venture Round in 2021
Trella is a Cairo-based company founded in 2018 that provides an online platform connecting shippers to carriers in the shipping and transportation sector. The platform enhances the efficiency of drivers and offers opportunities for increased earnings and better load utilization. Trella aims to lower shipping costs through a transparent pricing structure, ensuring shippers have access to reliable carriers. It provides real-time shipment tracking and critical insights into transportation trends and performance, fostering improved decision-making for shippers. By bridging the gap between shippers and carriers, Trella enhances the overall efficiency of the logistics process.

Vortexa

Series B in 2021
Vortexa provides a real-time data and analytics platform for energy and freight industries. The company covers all vessel classes of crude oil, refined products, LPG, and LNG. It helps traders, analysts, and freight professionals gain a competitive edge in complex and opaque markets by confidently making trading decisions. Its platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze and interpret data and absorb data points from multiple sources to show oil's past, present, and future flow worldwide.

Leaf Logistics

Series A in 2020
Leaf Logistics is creating a multi-party network of shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers. Leaf builds technologies for members to participate in this network and plan, coordinate, and execute their transportation logistics more effectively. Today, the product suite includes the Leaf Adapt platform for shippers to build antifragile transportation plans, Leaf Flex forward contracts that lock in value for shippers and carriers alike, and the Leaf Network, where efficiency scales with multi-party network moves.

Yassir

Seed Round in 2019
Yassir is the leading super App for on-demand, ride-hailing, last-mile delivery, payment services, and more, set to change how daily services are provided. It currently operates in 45 cities across multiple countries. It has raised $150 million in Series B funding, five times what it raised in its previous priced round last November with world-class investors such as BOND and Y Combinator, which is the precursor of the likes of Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, and Doordash, among others. We offer on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. Building on this infrastructure, we are now introducing financial services to help users pay, save and borrow digitally. Helping usher the continent into a digital economy era. We’re not just about serving people - we’re about creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values. Yassir was founded in 2017 by Noureddine Taibi, and its headquarters is in Algiers, Algeria.

Vortexa

Series A in 2019
Vortexa provides a real-time data and analytics platform for energy and freight industries. The company covers all vessel classes of crude oil, refined products, LPG, and LNG. It helps traders, analysts, and freight professionals gain a competitive edge in complex and opaque markets by confidently making trading decisions. Its platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze and interpret data and absorb data points from multiple sources to show oil's past, present, and future flow worldwide.

Leaf Logistics

Seed Round in 2018
Leaf Logistics is creating a multi-party network of shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers. Leaf builds technologies for members to participate in this network and plan, coordinate, and execute their transportation logistics more effectively. Today, the product suite includes the Leaf Adapt platform for shippers to build antifragile transportation plans, Leaf Flex forward contracts that lock in value for shippers and carriers alike, and the Leaf Network, where efficiency scales with multi-party network moves.

Vortexa

Seed Round in 2018
Vortexa provides a real-time data and analytics platform for energy and freight industries. The company covers all vessel classes of crude oil, refined products, LPG, and LNG. It helps traders, analysts, and freight professionals gain a competitive edge in complex and opaque markets by confidently making trading decisions. Its platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze and interpret data and absorb data points from multiple sources to show oil's past, present, and future flow worldwide.

Lori Systems

Seed Round in 2017
Lori is a venture-backed start-up building cutting-edge logistics infrastructure for trucking in Africa. The start-up is tackling a massive issue - $180 billion is spent annually on haulage across Africa, which means that up to 75% of a product’s cost is due to logistics (compared to 6% in the US). Lori’s tech-enabled and operations-driven marketplace efficiently connects transport to cargo. The supply chain management system brings transparency and has pushed for significantly improved flexibility, reliability, and cost savings (savings of upwards of 18%). The company has experienced 30% month-over-month compounded growth since its product launch in May 2017. The market demand for Lori’s platform is increasing exponentially. To continue this pace of growth, Lori recently closed a landmark raise from globally leading institutional and strategic investors. The company won Techcrunch Battlefield Africa.

Cargomatic

Convertible Note in 2016
Cargomatic is a real-time on-demand network for Local Truck Availability. Shippers can submit loads and instantly find nearby trucks to service their needs. Since launching in early 2014, Cargomatic has aided the expedition of tens of thousands of deliveries throughout California, Chicago, and metropolitan New York.
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