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 Investment Banking

Crescenta

Series A in 2024
Crescenta is a Spanish fintech company specializing in digital investment platforms for private equity funds. It provides access to top-tier international products, previously inaccessible, along with educational resources on personal finance and investments.

Optifino

Series A in 2024
Optifino is a financial technology company specializing in intuitive visualization dashboards for the life insurance industry. It offers insights across various carriers, facilitates ongoing policy reviews, and integrates client goals to enhance estate planning by improving death benefits and premium management.

Muzz

Series A in 2024
Muzz is a global dating app tailored for Muslims, facilitating connections and marriages within the community. With over 8 million members worldwide and a success rate of over 400,000 matches, Muzz has made a significant impact on the global Muslim demographic. Founded by Shahzad Younas, formerly a Vice President at Morgan Stanley, Muzz is headquartered in London with a team of over 65 employees. The app offers features such as private chatting, photo sharing, and planned meet-ups to help users find compatible partners.

Midas

Seed Round in 2023
Midas is a software developer specializing in blockchain technology. It offers a platform for tokenizing real-world assets, enabling transparent management, settlement, lending, and borrowing on decentralized markets.

Beckley Waves

Seed Round in 2023
Beckley Waves operates a venture studio and investment fund focused on developing psychedelic applications. The company funds, supports, and mentors emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships to build the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem. It initiates new ventures and invests in pioneering start-ups, aiming to establish foundational infrastructure for responsible, equitable, and lawful psychedelic use. By supporting early-stage teams, Beckley Waves seeks to advance human well-being and consciousness through safe and legal access to psychedelic treatments and experiences.

OneVest

Series A in 2023
OneVest is a fintech company that develops an all-in-one wealth management platform. This platform automates administrative and middle office functions, enabling businesses to expand product capabilities, improve distribution, and streamline operations.

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.

Crescenta

Series A in 2022
Crescenta is a Spanish fintech company specializing in digital investment platforms for private equity funds. It provides access to top-tier international products, previously inaccessible, along with educational resources on personal finance and investments.

Edda

Venture Round in 2022
Edda is a developer of a software suite designed for the investment management sector, catering to venture capital firms, corporate ventures, private equity, family offices, and investment banks. The platform offers tools for managing deal flow, tracking portfolio performance, and providing real-time insights into investments. Edda focuses on enhancing communication with portfolio companies and ensuring that limited partners are kept informed about new deals and existing investments. By streamlining these processes, Edda enables businesses to effectively manage their investment activities and assess the value and impact of their portfolios.

Vessel

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Vessel is a platform that enables General Partners (GPs) in the private equity industry to access wealth management channels.

Goin

Seed Round in 2022
Goin is a mobile application that enhances users' financial health by layering innovative saving, investing, and smart-shopping tools onto traditional banking services.

SAKS

Seed Round in 2022
Saks is assisting in the transformation of the way people save money. It provides accumulation plans and investment options in a model that incorporates recurrence, diversification, and tax advantages. They also serve as a marketplace for life and pension brokers.

OneVest

Seed Round in 2022
OneVest is a fintech company that develops an all-in-one wealth management platform. This platform automates administrative and middle office functions, enabling businesses to expand product capabilities, improve distribution, and streamline operations.

Dinara

Seed Round in 2022
Dinara develops enterprise banking software that unifies crypto and fiat assets in one platform, enabling enterprises to hold and transact both securely and quickly. The platform supports multiple users per account, management of multiple entities, and role-based permissions to control risk, with streamlined Know Your Customer onboarding to speed up sign-up. Dinara aims to simplify corporate crypto and fiat banking by providing a single, integrated solution for secure asset management and business transactions.

Vest

Seed Round in 2022
Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts.

Ridian

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ridian is a platform facilitating automated crypto investments via responsive strategies tailored for the dynamic 24/7 market.

3i

Seed Round in 2021
3i is an invitation-only community of private investors to share deal flow, learn, and exchange knowledge. Investors can gain access to member-sourced, private-market, niche, and esoteric alternatives through 3i. 3i is where high-net-worth individuals discuss and debate compelling opportunities in emerging industries.

iBillionaire.api

Seed Round in 2021
iBillionaire is an investment advisory platform that offers investors insights into the strategies and data of successful billionaires. Launched in April 2013, it began as a mobile application that tracked the investment activities of prominent billionaires. Within a year, iBillionaire introduced its first index, the iBillionaire Index, which features the top 30 U.S. equities held by a select group of billionaires. This was followed by the launch of the Direxion iBillionaire Index ETF, which now manages over $35 million in assets. The platform also enables users to compare stocks and make predictions about market movements, simplifying investment decisions for its community of over 200,000 users.

Goin

Seed Round in 2021
Goin is a mobile application that enhances users' financial health by layering innovative saving, investing, and smart-shopping tools onto traditional banking services.

Semper

Seed Round in 2021
Semper is a financial services provider that specializes in venture liquidity finance, facilitating recurring and end-to-end secondary transactions for fast-growing startups. The company aims to enhance financial liquidity for stakeholders within the startup ecosystem, enabling them to de-risk their investments and capitalize on their hard work. By focusing on governance and regulation, Semper strives to create value for all parties involved, including entrepreneurs and investors, by providing structured opportunities for equity liquidation.

Baraka

Seed Round in 2021
Baraka is an investment application based in the UAE that aims to democratize access to stock markets for all individuals. The platform provides users with educational resources, market news, and comprehensive stock analysis to enhance their investment knowledge and confidence. Baraka enables commission-free investing in a wide range of stocks and exchange-traded funds, allowing users to explore diverse investment opportunities. By focusing on accessibility and empowerment, Baraka seeks to cultivate a new generation of informed investors.

Harness Wealth

Series A in 2021
Harness Wealth is a pioneering wealth management platform designed for entrepreneurs and investors. It combines innovative technology with expert advisory services, providing personalized financial advice and solutions tailored to help users build and manage their wealth effectively.

Baraka

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Baraka is an investment application based in the UAE that aims to democratize access to stock markets for all individuals. The platform provides users with educational resources, market news, and comprehensive stock analysis to enhance their investment knowledge and confidence. Baraka enables commission-free investing in a wide range of stocks and exchange-traded funds, allowing users to explore diverse investment opportunities. By focusing on accessibility and empowerment, Baraka seeks to cultivate a new generation of informed investors.

Vest

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts.

Katalyst

Seed Round in 2019
Katalyst Merchant Banking, established in 1999, is an investment banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions, private placement, public market advisory, valuation, and capital acquisition services. With headquarters in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and additional offices in New York City and Vienna, Virginia, the firm also launched a strategic partnership with New World Ventures in 2002.

Yieldstreet

Series A in 2018
Yieldstreet is a management platform that provides retail investors access to income-generating investment products. Founded in 2015, It gives individuals access to alternative investments that have traditionally been off-limits to the average investor. With over $2.5 billion invested across multiple asset classes, Yieldstreet is changing the way people generate passive income by lowering and removing the barriers that historically kept these lucrative opportunities far out of reach. In 2013, founders Milind Mehere and Michael Weisz were frustrated that many investment strategies were typically reserved only for institutions and the ultra-wealthy. Typically, the average investor was left to choose between the stock market and bonds with falling yields - with few options in between. Asset-based investments had longer hold periods and a higher barrier of entry, keeping them well out of reach of accredited investors — even more so for unaccredited investors. As a result, they decided to leverage the growing fintech disruption to give more people access to these previously restricted alternative investments. Milind’s background in building companies combined with Michael’s decade-plus experience in investing and fund management formed the core of Yieldstreet. Passion for their investors and employees as well as a willing embrace of innovation, has been part of Yieldstreet’s identity from the beginning. Each decision to leverage a new technology, or investment strategy, or originate a new deal is made to put investors first. That drive has propelled Yieldstreet across all 50 states, crossing $100M invested in less than eight quarters, with the $1B milestone coming only three years later. In 2019, Yieldstreet’s membership had grown to 100,000, and a savings account for members was launched. Yieldstreet, since its launch in 2015, has not deviated from its goal to change investing for the better, nor has it slowed down. Yieldstreet was ranked number 46 on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies and has been recognized by Built In as one of the Best Places to Work. Yieldstreet today delivers wealth generation options and alternative investments for more than 330,000 investors and has returned more than $1.3 billion in principal/interest. Many alternative investment platforms only focus on one asset class, such as real estate or art. Yieldstreet’s offerings, accessed through cash or a low-fee IRA, cover a wide range of asset classes — art, real estate, legal, corporates, consumer, and commercial, via single investments or funds. Yieldstreet also offers its members short-term notes on offerings with a hold period between 3 and 6 months, which generally boast higher interest rates than money markets and CDs. Yieldstreet is headquartered in New York and has offices in Brazil, Greece, and Malta. Michael Weisz serves as President and Milind Mehere serves as CEO. Together, they manage a team of more than 140 employees, all working toward Yieldstreet’s one goal: to change the way people invest for the better.

Muzz

Seed Round in 2017
Muzz is a global dating app tailored for Muslims, facilitating connections and marriages within the community. With over 8 million members worldwide and a success rate of over 400,000 matches, Muzz has made a significant impact on the global Muslim demographic. Founded by Shahzad Younas, formerly a Vice President at Morgan Stanley, Muzz is headquartered in London with a team of over 65 employees. The app offers features such as private chatting, photo sharing, and planned meet-ups to help users find compatible partners.

Edda

Seed Round in 2017
Edda is a developer of a software suite designed for the investment management sector, catering to venture capital firms, corporate ventures, private equity, family offices, and investment banks. The platform offers tools for managing deal flow, tracking portfolio performance, and providing real-time insights into investments. Edda focuses on enhancing communication with portfolio companies and ensuring that limited partners are kept informed about new deals and existing investments. By streamlining these processes, Edda enables businesses to effectively manage their investment activities and assess the value and impact of their portfolios.

Avanza Bank Holding

Debt Financing in 2013
Avanza Bank Holding is a commercial bank headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 1999. It aims to provide affordable and user-friendly banking solutions, prioritizing customer satisfaction and cost-effectiveness. The bank offers a range of financial products, including loans, subordinated debt, and a variety of investment options with the lowest trading fees in the market. Avanza has gained recognition for its innovative approach, highlighted by products such as Avanza Zero, a mutual fund with no charges, and Superbolånet, which boasts Sweden's lowest mortgage interest rate. With over 500,000 satisfied users and a strong reputation for customer service, Avanza is considered Sweden's largest niche bank, serving more than a quarter of a million active accounts. The bank continues to evolve its offerings to enhance the financial futures of its customers.
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