FJ Labs

Founded in 2015, FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm focusing on stage-agnostic investments in marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investment range varies from $50,000 to $5,000,000, typically at seed or series A stages.

Matias Barbero

Investor

Zineb Belghiti

Analyst

Agapitos Diakogiannis

Investor

Fabrice Grinda

Partner

William Guillouard

Venture Partner

Arne Halleraker

Partner

Christopher Keshian

Investor

Ariel Lebowits

CFO

Mark Lurie

Venture Partner

Jose Marin

Partner

Daniel Simon

Venture Partner

Luke Skertich

Investor

Guimar Vaca Sittic

Venture Partner

Jeff Weinstein

Partner

Andrea Xu

Investor

Past deals in Data Mining

Odyssey

Series A in 2024
Odyssey Energy Solutions, founded in 2017 and based in Boulder, Colorado, offers a web-based data platform designed to streamline the development and deployment of mini-grids in emerging markets. The platform enables project developers to effectively manage and analyze mini-grid data through various software tools and data analytics. By facilitating communication and connection among developers, financiers, vendors, and governmental and donor organizations, Odyssey enhances collaboration within the mini-grid sector, ultimately supporting sustainable energy solutions in underserved regions.

Infactory

Seed Round in 2024
Infactory is a developer of an artificial intelligence search tool aimed at providing reliable and accurate search results. The company's platform integrates high-quality data partnerships with both conventional and cutting-edge technologies. This combination enables users to access clear, precise, and trustworthy information efficiently, eliminating unnecessary complexities.

TurboAI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
TurboAI specializes in AI-driven process automation, helping businesses enhance operational efficiency. Its software analyzes large datasets, identifies patterns, and automates routine tasks, enabling employees to focus on strategic and creative work, and make data-driven decisions.

CSC Generation

Series E in 2024
CSC Generation is a company that specializes in providing private financing services aimed at preventing brand liquidations. It utilizes a proprietary technology platform that is both data-driven and analytical, allowing clients to improve their business operations across various functions such as sales, finance, and marketing. By offering centralized teams and tailored support, CSC Generation helps brands address financial challenges and sustain their operations, ultimately preserving jobs and fostering business continuity.

PVML

Seed Round in 2024
Founded in 2021, PVML operates a platform that connects and secures multiple data sources. It enables enterprises to derive live insights from sensitive data using AI-driven technology, benefiting users across various roles and scenarios.

Dray Alliance

Series B in 2024
Dray Alliance streamlines the multi-billion dollar drayage trucking industry through a real-time technology platform. It connects shippers, carriers, and truckers efficiently, eliminating friction in delivery processes, making deliveries simple, predictable, and transparent.

Condo Group

Series B in 2024
Condo Group is a real estate technology and property-management company that applies artificial intelligence and digital tools across the lifecycle of properties. It manages property operations for its own and third-party assets, covering commercial and technical aspects, and develops optimized plans for each project. It also supports residential property investments by providing a platform for property acquisition, renovation, and ongoing management, including tenant screening, rent collection, maintenance, and legal support, enabling private investors to pursue rental income, long-term capital appreciation, and diversified portfolios with reduced operational burden.

REWORTH

Seed Round in 2024
REWORTH facilitates interactions between banks and merchants by leveraging cashback incentives. It uses anonymous transactional data to personalize offers, boost engagement, and provide real-time business intelligence. REWORTH's API infrastructure enables third-party services like credit scoring and fraud prevention.

January

Series B in 2023
January is a developer of a data-driven financial platform that focuses on providing end-to-end resolution services for delinquent and charged-off consumer loans. The platform aims to build and enforce trust in consumer finance by addressing the challenges faced by borrowers in delinquency and default, such as harassment, hidden fees, and damaged credit scores. At the same time, it helps creditors recover lost funds while mitigating compliance and operational risks. By utilizing technology, January offers a streamlined and effective resolution process that caters to the unique financial situations and preferences of borrowers, ultimately fostering a more trustworthy relationship between borrowers and creditors.

Metaloop

Series A in 2023
Metaloop is a scrap trading company that operates a managed online marketplace designed to digitize the metal recycling industry. By leveraging machine learning and data analysis, Metaloop facilitates the sourcing and trading of scrap metals, effectively connecting suppliers with buyers. The platform matches offers and requests, providing a comprehensive solution that includes logistics and financial services. This approach enables scrap dealers, recyclers, and factories to enhance their capacity utilization, acquire new suppliers, and optimize their financial returns, ultimately helping businesses in the metal recycling sector improve revenue without the need for scaling.

Diadia Health

Seed Round in 2023
Diadia Health is a technology company specializing in AI-driven health and wellness solutions. It focuses on preventive care and enhancing longevity, with a particular emphasis on managing and reversing diabetes. The company's platform offers personalized healthcare assistance and curated educational content, utilizing AI assistants that adapt to individual patient needs. This platform empowers both medical professionals and patients with tools for continuous monitoring and learning, ultimately improving health outcomes and expanding medical knowledge.

Shyft

Convertible Note in 2023
Shyft Network Inc, founded in 2017 and based in Barbados, operates a blockchain-based digital identity network aimed at enhancing regulatory compliance and data security. As a subsidiary of Bitfury USA, Inc., Shyft focuses on aggregating existing protocols to create a standardized approach to anti-money laundering verification. The network offers robust data protection and features such as a bridge watcher system to detect and deter threats. It provides users with granular control over their information, allowing them to decide what data to share, with whom, and for what purposes. Shyft also facilitates incentivized data exchange, enabling businesses to improve personal information security while accessing valuable compliance-satisfying data.

Odyssey

Series A in 2023
Odyssey Energy Solutions, founded in 2017 and based in Boulder, Colorado, offers a web-based data platform designed to streamline the development and deployment of mini-grids in emerging markets. The platform enables project developers to effectively manage and analyze mini-grid data through various software tools and data analytics. By facilitating communication and connection among developers, financiers, vendors, and governmental and donor organizations, Odyssey enhances collaboration within the mini-grid sector, ultimately supporting sustainable energy solutions in underserved regions.

Koya AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Koya.AI provides a data-as-a-service solution designed to assist online marketplaces and procurement platforms in managing their catalog data efficiently. By leveraging machine learning, Koya streamlines the processes of obtaining, normalizing, and continuously updating product information, which is essential for effective search, discovery, and product recommendations in ecommerce. Traditional methods of managing product data can be slow and prone to errors, leading to delays in seller listings and a subpar user experience, ultimately affecting conversion rates. Koya.AI addresses these challenges by offering a universal data layer that simplifies the complexities associated with product data management, enabling clients to enhance their operational efficiency and improve customer engagement in the digital marketplace.

PVML

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2021, PVML operates a platform that connects and secures multiple data sources. It enables enterprises to derive live insights from sensitive data using AI-driven technology, benefiting users across various roles and scenarios.

Numerai

Series B in 2023
Numerai, LLC is a hedge fund firm founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. It operates a unique investment approach by leveraging a global network of data scientists to develop predictive models for the stock market. The company transforms and regularizes financial data into machine learning challenges, allowing participants to engage in data science tournaments focused on stock market predictions. This innovative platform not only facilitates the creation of sophisticated investment strategies but also promotes a collaborative environment where data scientists can contribute to the firm's investment decisions. Through this model, Numerai aims to enhance investment returns and foster profitable outcomes for its investors.

Condo Group

Series A in 2022
Condo Group is a real estate technology and property-management company that applies artificial intelligence and digital tools across the lifecycle of properties. It manages property operations for its own and third-party assets, covering commercial and technical aspects, and develops optimized plans for each project. It also supports residential property investments by providing a platform for property acquisition, renovation, and ongoing management, including tenant screening, rent collection, maintenance, and legal support, enabling private investors to pursue rental income, long-term capital appreciation, and diversified portfolios with reduced operational burden.

Koya AI

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Koya.AI provides a data-as-a-service solution designed to assist online marketplaces and procurement platforms in managing their catalog data efficiently. By leveraging machine learning, Koya streamlines the processes of obtaining, normalizing, and continuously updating product information, which is essential for effective search, discovery, and product recommendations in ecommerce. Traditional methods of managing product data can be slow and prone to errors, leading to delays in seller listings and a subpar user experience, ultimately affecting conversion rates. Koya.AI addresses these challenges by offering a universal data layer that simplifies the complexities associated with product data management, enabling clients to enhance their operational efficiency and improve customer engagement in the digital marketplace.

2.5 Intelligence

Pre Seed Round in 2022
2.5 Intelligence develops tools to help communities manage and engage their audiences, with a focus on web3 projects. It provides Discord and Twitter bots that integrate on-chain and off-chain data to identify active members, boost participation, and support long-term community growth.

Enigma

Seed Round in 2022
Enigma is a San Francisco-based company specializing in cloud SDK solutions designed to protect data-in-use. It focuses on automating and streamlining business operations, particularly for financial institutions, aiding in anti-money laundering compliance, credit card fraud detection, and insurance premium pricing. Additionally, Enigma leverages advanced privacy technologies to develop a platform for scalable, end-to-end decentralized applications. The company introduces innovative secret contracts—smart contracts that enable the utilization of private and sensitive data within decentralized applications and services, enhancing both data security and operational efficiency.

REWORTH

Seed Round in 2021
REWORTH facilitates interactions between banks and merchants by leveraging cashback incentives. It uses anonymous transactional data to personalize offers, boost engagement, and provide real-time business intelligence. REWORTH's API infrastructure enables third-party services like credit scoring and fraud prevention.

CSC Generation

Series D in 2021
CSC Generation is a company that specializes in providing private financing services aimed at preventing brand liquidations. It utilizes a proprietary technology platform that is both data-driven and analytical, allowing clients to improve their business operations across various functions such as sales, finance, and marketing. By offering centralized teams and tailored support, CSC Generation helps brands address financial challenges and sustain their operations, ultimately preserving jobs and fostering business continuity.

Metaloop

Seed Round in 2020
Metaloop is a scrap trading company that operates a managed online marketplace designed to digitize the metal recycling industry. By leveraging machine learning and data analysis, Metaloop facilitates the sourcing and trading of scrap metals, effectively connecting suppliers with buyers. The platform matches offers and requests, providing a comprehensive solution that includes logistics and financial services. This approach enables scrap dealers, recyclers, and factories to enhance their capacity utilization, acquire new suppliers, and optimize their financial returns, ultimately helping businesses in the metal recycling sector improve revenue without the need for scaling.

Showcase Insights

Pre Seed Round in 2020
SHOWCASE is a next-gen product research startup, leveraging technology to generate targeted, efficient, agile consumer insights.

Dray Alliance

Series A in 2020
Dray Alliance streamlines the multi-billion dollar drayage trucking industry through a real-time technology platform. It connects shippers, carriers, and truckers efficiently, eliminating friction in delivery processes, making deliveries simple, predictable, and transparent.

Shyft

Series A in 2020
Shyft Network Inc, founded in 2017 and based in Barbados, operates a blockchain-based digital identity network aimed at enhancing regulatory compliance and data security. As a subsidiary of Bitfury USA, Inc., Shyft focuses on aggregating existing protocols to create a standardized approach to anti-money laundering verification. The network offers robust data protection and features such as a bridge watcher system to detect and deter threats. It provides users with granular control over their information, allowing them to decide what data to share, with whom, and for what purposes. Shyft also facilitates incentivized data exchange, enabling businesses to improve personal information security while accessing valuable compliance-satisfying data.

Embark

Series A in 2019
Embark offers dog DNA testing that ends preventable diseases in dogs. It was founded by top experts in genomics, computational biology, and software design to sell an industry-leading dog DNA test. They use a clinical-grade CLIA-certified SNP chip to provide the most accurate and comprehensive results (200,000+ genetic markers) available on the market. Their data contributes to proprietary genetics research that will help dog owners optimize nutrition, exercise, allergies, and prevent a variety of heritable conditions. Their technological advantage, intellectual capital, and research-focus enable them to push canine health toward our shared vision of preventative veterinary care.

Firstleaf

Venture Round in 2018
Firstleaf is a personalized wine company that specializes in curating and delivering award-winning wines tailored to individual preferences through a subscription service. Founded by Philip James, an experienced wine professional with a background in chemistry, Firstleaf employs proprietary technology and expert winemakers to create a unique Wine Profile for each member. The company offers over 82 million possible wine combinations, ensuring that 98% of its monthly shipments are unique. Firstleaf's team samples more than 10,000 wines annually from diverse regions, selecting only the highest quality bottles. With over 700,000 cases sold last year and a track record of more than 2,800 awards, including numerous 90+ point scores, Firstleaf has established itself as a trusted brand in the wine industry. The company has garnered recognition for its innovative approach, including accolades from Fast Company and Wine Business Monthly, and was named Wine Company of the Year in a prestigious wine competition. Nearly one million consumers have experienced Firstleaf since its inception, reflecting its growing influence in the market.

Embark

Seed Round in 2017
Embark offers dog DNA testing that ends preventable diseases in dogs. It was founded by top experts in genomics, computational biology, and software design to sell an industry-leading dog DNA test. They use a clinical-grade CLIA-certified SNP chip to provide the most accurate and comprehensive results (200,000+ genetic markers) available on the market. Their data contributes to proprietary genetics research that will help dog owners optimize nutrition, exercise, allergies, and prevent a variety of heritable conditions. Their technological advantage, intellectual capital, and research-focus enable them to push canine health toward our shared vision of preventative veterinary care.

SafeGraph

Convertible Note in 2017
Founded in 2016, SafeGraph specializes in collecting, processing, and maintaining high-precision datasets covering millions of points of interest across the US and Canada. Its data includes business listings, building footprints, aggregated foot traffic, brand affiliations, and other key business details, supporting market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more.

SafeGraph

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2016, SafeGraph specializes in collecting, processing, and maintaining high-precision datasets covering millions of points of interest across the US and Canada. Its data includes business listings, building footprints, aggregated foot traffic, brand affiliations, and other key business details, supporting market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more.

Embark

Seed Round in 2016
Embark offers dog DNA testing that ends preventable diseases in dogs. It was founded by top experts in genomics, computational biology, and software design to sell an industry-leading dog DNA test. They use a clinical-grade CLIA-certified SNP chip to provide the most accurate and comprehensive results (200,000+ genetic markers) available on the market. Their data contributes to proprietary genetics research that will help dog owners optimize nutrition, exercise, allergies, and prevent a variety of heritable conditions. Their technological advantage, intellectual capital, and research-focus enable them to push canine health toward our shared vision of preventative veterinary care.
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