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.
Formic
Venture Round in 2024
Formic is a robotics company dedicated to enhancing automation in labor-intensive industries such as food and beverage, advanced manufacturing, and consumer packaged goods. The company focuses on making robotic deployments accessible and straightforward, offering manufacturers flexible automation solutions that allow them to pay based on productivity rather than upfront costs. By combining financial innovation with expertise in robotics, Formic enables businesses to scale their manufacturing capabilities quickly and with reduced risk. The company's mission is to democratize access to automation, ensuring that every factory can benefit from the efficiencies provided by advanced robotic systems.
Mealco
Convertible Note in 2023
Mealco is a food-tech platform focused on developing delivery-native food brands, aiming to bring popular cuisine directly to consumers' doorsteps. The company operates an online technology platform designed to help restaurants monetize their unused capacity. By transforming back-of-house resources into a digital-friendly operation, Mealco enables restaurants to manage high demand for online delivery while retaining their current staff. This approach allows restaurants to streamline their operations, expand their brand offerings, and enhance their online presence, ultimately maximizing customer reach.
Mealco is a food-tech platform focused on developing delivery-native food brands, aiming to bring popular cuisine directly to consumers' doorsteps. The company operates an online technology platform designed to help restaurants monetize their unused capacity. By transforming back-of-house resources into a digital-friendly operation, Mealco enables restaurants to manage high demand for online delivery while retaining their current staff. This approach allows restaurants to streamline their operations, expand their brand offerings, and enhance their online presence, ultimately maximizing customer reach.
Red Sky
Seed Round in 2022
Red Sky is a logistics platform developer established in 2021 that specializes in connecting food processors and manufacturers with sourcing, cargo, and storage solutions. The company’s platform enhances the workflow for importers and exporters of Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Red Sky provides comprehensive management of logistics, dynamic payment terms, and a digital dashboard, allowing clients to gain complete visibility across their supply chain. This functionality aims to improve operational performance for businesses in the food processing and manufacturing sectors.
Kitchenita
Funding Round in 2022
Kitchenita is a Latin American startup focused on transforming the food delivery industry by leveraging data-driven food concepts. The company collaborates with leading food and beverage brands and renowned chefs to develop virtual restaurants that can achieve top rankings in various food categories within a month. Utilizing proprietary technology and data analysis, Kitchenita creates online native food brands, allowing partner restaurants to expand their operations efficiently and cost-effectively. By streamlining supply purchases and offering a comprehensive digitization system, Kitchenita aims to enhance the delivery experience while supporting the growth of its partners in the competitive food market.
Mealco
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Mealco is a food-tech platform focused on developing delivery-native food brands, aiming to bring popular cuisine directly to consumers' doorsteps. The company operates an online technology platform designed to help restaurants monetize their unused capacity. By transforming back-of-house resources into a digital-friendly operation, Mealco enables restaurants to manage high demand for online delivery while retaining their current staff. This approach allows restaurants to streamline their operations, expand their brand offerings, and enhance their online presence, ultimately maximizing customer reach.
SCiFi Foods
Series A in 2021
SCiFi Foods is a food technology company focused on producing cultivated meat that combines lab-grown beef cells with plant-based ingredients to create burgers that closely replicate the taste of traditional beef. The company aims to provide a sustainable and ethical alternative to conventional meat by utilizing bioengineering techniques to grow meat cells without relying on animal farming. SCiFi Foods has achieved significant advancements, including the successful growth of beef cells in suspension, which has the potential to drastically reduce production costs. Founded by CEO Joshua March and CTO Kasia Gora, PhD, the company has attracted $29 million in funding from prominent investors, positioning it for future growth in the alternative protein market.
Mealco is a food-tech platform focused on developing delivery-native food brands, aiming to bring popular cuisine directly to consumers' doorsteps. The company operates an online technology platform designed to help restaurants monetize their unused capacity. By transforming back-of-house resources into a digital-friendly operation, Mealco enables restaurants to manage high demand for online delivery while retaining their current staff. This approach allows restaurants to streamline their operations, expand their brand offerings, and enhance their online presence, ultimately maximizing customer reach.
MUNCH:ON is a food tech startup that has cracked the subscription space in the UAE & KSA, focusing on offering meals from the best restaurants at a significant discount and with free delivery. The company has invested heavily in its scheduling, bundling and order prediction software which has enabled it to achieve massive cost savings for its restaurant partners that they then pass on to their users, often offering up to a 55% discount vs. restaurants' regular price. Whether it's employees ordering from their company's curated menu or users ordering for their families at home, the platform takes the usual hassle and cost out of food delivery in a financially (and environmentally) sustainable manner for all stakeholders
Mealco
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Mealco is a food-tech platform focused on developing delivery-native food brands, aiming to bring popular cuisine directly to consumers' doorsteps. The company operates an online technology platform designed to help restaurants monetize their unused capacity. By transforming back-of-house resources into a digital-friendly operation, Mealco enables restaurants to manage high demand for online delivery while retaining their current staff. This approach allows restaurants to streamline their operations, expand their brand offerings, and enhance their online presence, ultimately maximizing customer reach.
SCiFi Foods
Pre Seed Round in 2020
SCiFi Foods is a food technology company focused on producing cultivated meat that combines lab-grown beef cells with plant-based ingredients to create burgers that closely replicate the taste of traditional beef. The company aims to provide a sustainable and ethical alternative to conventional meat by utilizing bioengineering techniques to grow meat cells without relying on animal farming. SCiFi Foods has achieved significant advancements, including the successful growth of beef cells in suspension, which has the potential to drastically reduce production costs. Founded by CEO Joshua March and CTO Kasia Gora, PhD, the company has attracted $29 million in funding from prominent investors, positioning it for future growth in the alternative protein market.
MUNCH:ON is a food tech startup that has cracked the subscription space in the UAE & KSA, focusing on offering meals from the best restaurants at a significant discount and with free delivery. The company has invested heavily in its scheduling, bundling and order prediction software which has enabled it to achieve massive cost savings for its restaurant partners that they then pass on to their users, often offering up to a 55% discount vs. restaurants' regular price. Whether it's employees ordering from their company's curated menu or users ordering for their families at home, the platform takes the usual hassle and cost out of food delivery in a financially (and environmentally) sustainable manner for all stakeholders
Confident LIMS
Series A in 2019
Confident LIMS is a leading Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) serving high-throughput labs in regulated industries. Confident LIMS is a B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform with strong network effects among our lab customers and their testing clients. We currently serve >60% of the legal cannabis industry in the United States and are expanding into mainstream agriculture, food & beverage, and environmental industries.
Foodza is a B2B food-distribution platform that facilitates direct connections between farmers, food producers, and importers with retail and HoReCa businesses in the CIS region. The company has developed a technology-driven logistics platform designed for on-demand harvesting of fruits, vegetables, meat, and dairy products. Foodza offers both mobile app and web-based interfaces, allowing farmers to efficiently communicate with retailers. By managing "door-to-door" logistics and fulfillment, Foodza aims to eliminate middlemen in the food supply chain, thereby increasing farmers' incomes and providing retailers with higher quality fresh produce.
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