FJ Labs

FJ Labs is a venture capital firm based in New York, founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. The firm is stage-agnostic, focusing on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, with a particular emphasis on sectors such as B2B, B2C, financial services, mobile technology, advertisement technology, e-commerce, food technology, gaming, health technology, real estate technology, restaurant technology, ridesharing, SaaS, and virtual reality. FJ Labs invests primarily in seed and Series A rounds, with an investment range between $50,000 and $5,000,000. The firm has backed notable companies including Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, ADORE ME, and Earnest.

Matias Barbero

Venture Capital

Zineb Belghiti

Analyst

Camila Bustamante

Investor

William Guillouard

Operating Partner

Arne Halleraker

Partner

Erez Kalir

Venture Partner

Chris Keshian

Investor

Ariel Lebowits

CFO

Jose Marin

Founding Partner

Anshul Ruparell

Founder

Luke Skertich

Investor

Andrea Xu

Investor

Past deals in Leveraged Buyout

Valoreo

Series B in 2022
Valoreo is an e-commerce holding company that specializes in acquiring, operating, and scaling successful e-commerce brands primarily in Latin America. The company focuses on brands with excellent customer reviews and proven success as top sellers in niche categories with high-growth potential. By consolidating outstanding startups that offer category-leading products, Valoreo enhances their operations and develops its own brands in-house. This strategy allows Valoreo to help its clients significantly scale their businesses and advance to the next stage of development.

Boopos

Seed Round in 2022
boopos provides flexible, useful financing for e-commerce, SaaS businesses and their owners: discretionary purpose, long-term revenue-based facilities for an investment, acquiring a company or just cashing out without selling your company or diluting yourself.

Ledn

Series B in 2021
Ledn is a financial services company focused on helping individuals save in digital assets. It offers a range of products, including a bitcoin-backed loan service that allows clients to access cash without selling their bitcoin. Additionally, Ledn provides a B2X product that enables users to instantly double their bitcoin holdings through a loan. The company also features interest-bearing savings accounts for bitcoin and USDC, which pay interest without requiring minimum deposits. By providing these services, Ledn aims to empower clients to grow their digital wealth while maintaining their cryptocurrency holdings.

Elevate Brands

Venture Round in 2021
Elevate Brands specializes in acquiring and enhancing Amazon FBA brands, aiming to maximize their potential in the marketplace. The company provides Amazon third-party sellers with attractive exit opportunities through a referral program that incentivizes introductions leading to successful acquisitions. This approach enables newly acquired brands to scale rapidly and achieve long-term, sustainable growth. Elevate Brands consistently seeks motivated individuals to join its team, emphasizing a collaborative work environment that values excellence and initiative.

Razor Group

Venture Round in 2021
Operator of a consumer goods holding company intended to invest and buy profitable brands. The company's marketplace combines advanced data analytics and custom-built technology, an optimized M&A process and in-house e-commerce and finance expertise to find suitable acquisition targets, enabling brands to scale profitable and demonstrate category leadership, better-quality products and customer reviews.

Valoreo

Seed Round in 2021
Valoreo is an e-commerce holding company that specializes in acquiring, operating, and scaling successful e-commerce brands primarily in Latin America. The company focuses on brands with excellent customer reviews and proven success as top sellers in niche categories with high-growth potential. By consolidating outstanding startups that offer category-leading products, Valoreo enhances their operations and develops its own brands in-house. This strategy allows Valoreo to help its clients significantly scale their businesses and advance to the next stage of development.

Letz

Series A in 2021
Letz is a corporate transport company based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2019. The company specializes in providing safe and comfortable transportation services for workers, facilitating daily commutes between home and the workplace. Letz operates an online platform that connects self-employed drivers with individuals seeking transportation. Its services include professional drivers, fixed travel routes, and the flexibility to update or cancel rides, ensuring convenience and security for employees.

Scramble

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a consumer-packaged-investments company intended to help the general public invest in working capital loans. The company offers a pre-approved startup credit limit based on the estimate of the lifetime income of each co-founder, startups can set their fundraising goal and acceptable loan terms, and private investors can allocate capital to startups via monthly fundraising rounds, helping businesses to raise funds using secured high-yield debt financing.

Elevate Brands

Venture Round in 2021
Elevate Brands specializes in acquiring and enhancing Amazon FBA brands, aiming to maximize their potential in the marketplace. The company provides Amazon third-party sellers with attractive exit opportunities through a referral program that incentivizes introductions leading to successful acquisitions. This approach enables newly acquired brands to scale rapidly and achieve long-term, sustainable growth. Elevate Brands consistently seeks motivated individuals to join its team, emphasizing a collaborative work environment that values excellence and initiative.

Valoreo

Seed Round in 2021
Valoreo is an e-commerce holding company that specializes in acquiring, operating, and scaling successful e-commerce brands primarily in Latin America. The company focuses on brands with excellent customer reviews and proven success as top sellers in niche categories with high-growth potential. By consolidating outstanding startups that offer category-leading products, Valoreo enhances their operations and develops its own brands in-house. This strategy allows Valoreo to help its clients significantly scale their businesses and advance to the next stage of development.

Razor Group

Venture Round in 2020
Operator of a consumer goods holding company intended to invest and buy profitable brands. The company's marketplace combines advanced data analytics and custom-built technology, an optimized M&A process and in-house e-commerce and finance expertise to find suitable acquisition targets, enabling brands to scale profitable and demonstrate category leadership, better-quality products and customer reviews.

Leaf Logistics

Series A in 2020
Leaf Logistics Inc. operates a freight contracting platform that facilitates a multi-party network connecting shippers, carriers, brokers, and logistics service providers. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company employs predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to enhance the management of transportation logistics. Its platform enables users to secure future transportation capacity, rates, and services through binding, tradeable contracts called Leaf Forward contracts. This innovative approach allows for improved service and cost predictability, helping participants to plan and execute logistics more effectively. Leaf Logistics was previously known as Logistics Exchange Inc. before rebranding in March 2019.

Leap

Series A in 2020
Leap is a marketplace for Distributed Energy Resources to participate in the energy market. It allows every connected device to help balance the grid, and get paid for it and access wholesale markets through a single API and help build the flexible, renewable grid of the future. Leap aims to make global energy markets accessible to anyone, starting with demand response and expanding into generation and ancillary services. Leap was founded by Thomas Folker and Remco Van Den Elzen.

Velocity

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Provider of banking and financial services intended to fund companies or offer credit based on their sales. The company provides a range of financial services including term loans, revenue-based financing, overdrafts, payments as well as analytics for businesses with zero equity dilution or personal guarantees, enabling clients to avail an alternative to venture capital or loan where repayments happen as a fixed percentage of future revenues.

LÜK

Seed Round in 2019
LÜK operates an online talent marketplace specifically designed for the fashion and entertainment industries, connecting clients with a diverse array of professionals, including models, photographers, stylists, and hair and makeup artists. By aggregating top talent agencies into a single platform, LÜK simplifies the process of locating and booking creative talent for photo and video shoots, allowing brands to efficiently cast from multiple premium agencies. In addition to facilitating talent bookings, LÜK is evolving into a payments platform for the industry, addressing a significant pain point where talent agencies often wait 60 to 150 days for payment. By factoring the receivables of over 150 talent agencies within its network, LÜK ensures that these agencies receive same-day payouts, thereby enhancing cash flow and operational efficiency.

Leaf Logistics

Seed Round in 2018
Leaf Logistics Inc. operates a freight contracting platform that facilitates a multi-party network connecting shippers, carriers, brokers, and logistics service providers. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company employs predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to enhance the management of transportation logistics. Its platform enables users to secure future transportation capacity, rates, and services through binding, tradeable contracts called Leaf Forward contracts. This innovative approach allows for improved service and cost predictability, helping participants to plan and execute logistics more effectively. Leaf Logistics was previously known as Logistics Exchange Inc. before rebranding in March 2019.

Loft

Series A in 2018
Loft Holdings Ltd operates Loft, a digital platform based in São Paulo, Brazil, that revolutionizes the real estate market by facilitating the buying, selling, and exchanging of residential properties. Founded in 2018, Loft serves as Brazil's first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, catering to individuals, brokers, and publicly listed real estate investment trusts managed by the company. The platform leverages proprietary transaction data and a comprehensive digital workflow to streamline the homebuying experience, integrating various related services to enhance user convenience. With its searchable database, users can easily find and evaluate properties, allowing for transparent and efficient real estate transactions.

Letgo

Series C in 2017
Letgo is a popular mobile application that facilitates the buying and selling of second-hand goods locally, boasting over 100 million downloads and 400 million listings. Founded in 2015 by Alec Oxenford and Jordi Castello, later joined by Enrique Linares, Letgo has become a leading marketplace in the United States, offering a diverse range of products, including electronics, vehicles, clothing, and furniture. The app incorporates innovative features such as image recognition and video listings, which streamline the listing process by automatically suggesting titles, prices, and categories based on user-uploaded photos. This user-friendly approach allows individuals to easily declutter their homes and discover great deals nearby.

Letgo

Series B in 2016
Letgo is a popular mobile application that facilitates the buying and selling of second-hand goods locally, boasting over 100 million downloads and 400 million listings. Founded in 2015 by Alec Oxenford and Jordi Castello, later joined by Enrique Linares, Letgo has become a leading marketplace in the United States, offering a diverse range of products, including electronics, vehicles, clothing, and furniture. The app incorporates innovative features such as image recognition and video listings, which streamline the listing process by automatically suggesting titles, prices, and categories based on user-uploaded photos. This user-friendly approach allows individuals to easily declutter their homes and discover great deals nearby.
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