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 Pre-Seed Round

Webvar

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Cloud-based reseller platform that empowers IT vendors, to reach customers and scale while helping Enterprises make an informed purchasing decision on IT technology

Rive

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Kodit.io is redefining how people buy, sell, and rent homes by eliminating time-consuming and costly procedures related to every real estate transaction. The company offers instant buying and data-driven brokerage services to home sellers and freshly renovated and safe city apartments for home buyers. Quick, easy, and transparent. Since being founded in 2017, the company has transacted homes worth over 90M euros and raised 121M in funding. The team comes from a colorful range of backgrounds, all the way from entrepreneurship to academics and Nordea to Harvard Business School. As of December 2020, Kodit.io consists of 45+ people from 7 different nationalities. Kodit.io is headquartered in Helsinki and is operating in all the major cities in Finland as well as Warsaw, Poland, and Madrid, Spain. Kodit.io service concept is developed by Homerun Technologies Ltd. You can find more about us: www.kodit.io/en

Secfi

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Secfi, Inc. is a company that specializes in pre-wealth advisory solutions, focusing on equity planning and financing for startup employees and founders. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Amsterdam, Secfi offers tools and resources designed to help private company shareholders make informed financial decisions regarding their equity from the offer stage to an initial public offering. The company provides options exercise and shareholder financing solutions, along with educational resources and guidance from licensed equity strategists. By simplifying the complexities of equity compensation, Secfi aims to empower employees to better understand their financial options and concentrate on their passions.

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.

countX

Pre Seed Round in 2022
countX provides automated processes with regard to the collection and processing of tax-relevant data as well as the examination according to the applicable international sales tax regulations.

VIVLA

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Vivla offers second homeownership by helping people buy, own, and sell the fractions of the second home that fits their life.

Overnight

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Overnight Finance is a protocol for asset management that provides passive yield products based on delta-neutral strategies to conservative stablecoin investors. It creates a profitable stablecoin USD+ that is backed by a conservative DeFi portfolio and is focused on maximum liquidity and avoiding losses even on a one-day horizon. The USD+ token can be exchanged for USDC at the owner's request, which is positioned as a secured asset with a reserve in the form of short-term US Treasuries and fiat currencies.

Impacked

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Impacked operates an online marketplace specifically designed for primary packaging, aiming to facilitate the connection and collaboration between brands and suppliers. The platform streamlines the packaging sourcing process by offering tools that enable suppliers to enhance their sales and marketing efforts. Clients can efficiently search, filter, sample, quote, and purchase various packaging options, allowing them to choose solutions that best meet their specific needs. By modernizing the packaging sourcing landscape, Impacked positions itself as a comprehensive resource for all primary packaging requirements.

Canid

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Canid is a company focused on enhancing the vaccination process for pediatricians by streamlining vaccination record management. Its innovative scanning system reduces the need for manual data entry, facilitating the automatic upload of vaccination information into state registries. The company's dashboard and process tools provide administrative consulting, ensure vaccine margins, automate workflow, and manage vaccine inventory. This comprehensive approach allows state officials and pediatric practitioners to concentrate on their core responsibilities, ultimately improving efficiency in vaccination administration.

Vest Wealth Management

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Vest is a digital investment advisor targeting the middle class in emerging markets. Through Vest, users can start investing with just 50 dollars in local funds and investment products.

Seafair

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Seafair provides an integrated platform for maritime crewing services, facilitating connections between seafarers and shipping companies. The company has developed a specialized crewing management software that enhances the traditional methods of shipping crewing. Utilizing a proprietary vetting process, the platform employs advanced technology, data analytics, and ranking algorithms to ensure that seafarers can easily find suitable job opportunities while allowing shipping companies to identify the most qualified candidates. This innovation enables users to manage the recruitment process efficiently from their homes, streamlining operations in the maritime industry.

mealco

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Mealco is a food-tech startup that offers delivery-native food brands. The company is driven by a mission to promote a better way of life for people globally through the power of healthy eating.

PeerBoard

Pre Seed Round in 2020
PeerBoard is a plug and play community platform with a heavy focus on user experience and deep integrations, including our WordPress, Shopify and Thinkific plugins and rich SDK/API capabilities. Extend your website with a community space!

Silverbird

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Silverbird operates as a digital bank focused on facilitating international trade for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The company offers online banking services, global business accounts, and high-value cross-border payment solutions tailored for businesses engaged in global commerce. Utilizing advanced, data-driven know-your-client technology, Silverbird effectively onboards international SMEs, helping them become bankable in Europe and other markets. By collaborating with banks, regulators, payment networks, and trade finance firms, Silverbird aims to eliminate the complexities associated with international payments, thereby promoting smoother transactions and fostering growth in global trade. The platform collects and analyzes transactional data to verify legitimate businesses, ensuring secure and efficient international transfers between accounts.

Orchata

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Orchata is a company that specializes in providing a Software-as-a-Service platform tailored for grocery stores and various food suppliers. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, Orchata's platform streamlines operations by enabling suppliers to manage online order processing, payment acceptance, delivery route optimization, and promotional activities. Additionally, it offers valuable analytics on revenue, orders, and customer behavior, facilitating a comprehensive digital transformation for businesses in the grocery, meat, produce, and seafood sectors.

Agenteur

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Career Management and HR Tech

Habi

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Habi operates a proprietary pricing algorithm and platform to simplify the homeownership lifecycle throughout Latin America. The company provides middle-class customers buy and sell their homes more quickly and efficiently, without the uncertainty of traditional real estate transactions. Habi was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia.

Lolli

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online. The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sending bitcoin to users' Lolli wallet. Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY.