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 Cards

Fuell

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Fuell Technologies, S.L. is a Madrid-based company that specializes in issuing corporate credit cards and providing expense management software for businesses. Founded in 2019, Fuell's platform integrates a corporate card with expense management tools, allowing companies to manage spending in real-time and set budgets without the need for traditional expense reports. The service includes features such as automatic budget updates, credit increases as businesses grow, and cashbacks on various expenditures, including rideshare, fuel, dining, and recruitment services. This innovative approach aims to streamline financial management, offering businesses greater control over their expenses and enhancing operational efficiency.

NymCard

Venture Round in 2022
NymCard is a next generation issuer processor payment platform, which is reinventing payment cards through state-of-the-art infrastructure offered to banks and other financial institutions in Africa and the Middle East. We enables financial institutions to issue innovative digital payment products in regions that have historically dealt with extremely low penetration of payment cards. Utilizing powerful open API’s and Mobile SDK’s, our clients can now offer plastic, virtual, or tokenized cards to mobile end-users in as little as 8 weeks.

Fuell

Seed Round in 2021
Fuell Technologies, S.L. is a Madrid-based company that specializes in issuing corporate credit cards and providing expense management software for businesses. Founded in 2019, Fuell's platform integrates a corporate card with expense management tools, allowing companies to manage spending in real-time and set budgets without the need for traditional expense reports. The service includes features such as automatic budget updates, credit increases as businesses grow, and cashbacks on various expenditures, including rideshare, fuel, dining, and recruitment services. This innovative approach aims to streamline financial management, offering businesses greater control over their expenses and enhancing operational efficiency.

Neo Financial

Series A in 2020
Credit card, rewards, and deposits all in one.