FJ Labs

FJ Labs, established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, is a stage-agnostic investment firm focusing on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. It invests in seed and series A rounds, with a typical investment range of $50,000 to $5,000,000. The firm's portfolio includes notable companies such as Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest, spanning sectors like e-commerce, fintech, and ad tech.

Matias Barbero

Venture Capital

Zineb Belghiti

Operations Associate

William Guillouard

Operating Partner

Arne Halleraker

Partner

Christopher Keshian

Investor

Ariel Lebowits

CFO

Jose Marin

Founding Partner

Güimar Vaca Sittic

Venture Partner

Jeff Weinstein

Partner

Past deals in Risk Management

Strike

Series A in 2025
Strike is a cybersecurity firm focused on providing accessible and high-quality security solutions to enterprises of all sizes. The company specializes in Continuous Pentesting, which connects organizations with cybersecurity professionals to ensure ongoing security assessments rather than relying solely on periodic testing. This approach combines manual pentesting by skilled experts with automated scanning, allowing organizations to identify and address vulnerabilities in real-time. By integrating with clients' management and communication systems, Strike enhances the efficiency of vulnerability triaging and remediation, helping businesses safeguard their data against potential threats before they can be exploited.

ValidMind

Seed Round in 2024
ValidMind specializes in AI governance and risk management for the financial services industry. Its platform automates key aspects of AI/machine learning model risk management, enhancing accuracy, consistency, and transparency in documentation, validation, testing, and audit tracking. The company's solution enables financial institutions to navigate AI challenges responsibly while ensuring regulatory compliance and mitigating risks. Led by experienced professionals with strong technical backgrounds, ValidMind aims to create a secure and ethical AI ecosystem within the financial sector, serving as a trusted partner for organizations adopting AI technologies, including large language models.

Simetrik

Series B in 2024
Simetrik INC is a company based in Bogotá, Colombia, specialized in providing verification services for transactional data. Founded in 2017, it offers big data solutions that enhance financial control and automate processes for corporate clients. Simetrik's platform enables businesses to reconcile diverse sources of information, regardless of their origin or format, ensuring accuracy and reducing operational costs. Utilizing a No Code/Low Code approach, the company empowers finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automated solutions across various use cases and geographic locations. With a robust, secure big data infrastructure, Simetrik manages high data volumes, mitigating compliance and reputational risks. The company processes $75 billion in total payment volume annually and serves a notable client base, which includes major financial entities like Mercado Pago and Bancolombia.

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.

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.

Simetrik

Series A in 2023
Simetrik INC is a company based in Bogotá, Colombia, specialized in providing verification services for transactional data. Founded in 2017, it offers big data solutions that enhance financial control and automate processes for corporate clients. Simetrik's platform enables businesses to reconcile diverse sources of information, regardless of their origin or format, ensuring accuracy and reducing operational costs. Utilizing a No Code/Low Code approach, the company empowers finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automated solutions across various use cases and geographic locations. With a robust, secure big data infrastructure, Simetrik manages high data volumes, mitigating compliance and reputational risks. The company processes $75 billion in total payment volume annually and serves a notable client base, which includes major financial entities like Mercado Pago and Bancolombia.

Whistic

Series B in 2022
Whistic, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pleasant Grove, Utah. It operates an AI-powered platform designed to help organizations evaluate and manage the IT security risks associated with their SaaS vendors. Whistic's platform streamlines the vendor risk assessment process, allowing information security and compliance teams to establish effective third-party risk management programs. The solution offers a centralized repository for security and compliance documentation, facilitating easier responses to security review requests and aiding in regulatory compliance. Additionally, Whistic features a unique Trust Catalog that connects vendors with their customers, enabling seamless exchange of security and compliance information. This comprehensive approach significantly reduces the risk of data breaches and enhances customer trust in the vendor relationship.

Strike

Seed Round in 2022
Strike is a cybersecurity firm focused on providing accessible and high-quality security solutions to enterprises of all sizes. The company specializes in Continuous Pentesting, which connects organizations with cybersecurity professionals to ensure ongoing security assessments rather than relying solely on periodic testing. This approach combines manual pentesting by skilled experts with automated scanning, allowing organizations to identify and address vulnerabilities in real-time. By integrating with clients' management and communication systems, Strike enhances the efficiency of vulnerability triaging and remediation, helping businesses safeguard their data against potential threats before they can be exploited.

Bracket

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Bracket is a company that focuses on providing downside protection insurance for blue-chip assets while also developing a decentralized finance platform aimed at democratizing financial products. Their platform introduces innovative on-chain solutions for volatility trading, allowing investors to engage with financial leverage through an option-spread-like position based on a percentage of the spot price. Additionally, Bracket creates social and collaborative applications on the Force.com platform, enhancing user engagement and interaction. Through these offerings, Bracket seeks to provide investors with enhanced security and flexibility in their financial strategies.

Simetrik

Series A in 2022
Simetrik INC is a company based in Bogotá, Colombia, specialized in providing verification services for transactional data. Founded in 2017, it offers big data solutions that enhance financial control and automate processes for corporate clients. Simetrik's platform enables businesses to reconcile diverse sources of information, regardless of their origin or format, ensuring accuracy and reducing operational costs. Utilizing a No Code/Low Code approach, the company empowers finance and operations teams to customize and maintain automated solutions across various use cases and geographic locations. With a robust, secure big data infrastructure, Simetrik manages high data volumes, mitigating compliance and reputational risks. The company processes $75 billion in total payment volume annually and serves a notable client base, which includes major financial entities like Mercado Pago and Bancolombia.

Overnight

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Overnight Finance is an asset management protocol designed to deliver passive yield products primarily for conservative stablecoin investors. The company employs delta-neutral strategies to create its flagship stablecoin, USD+, which is supported by a carefully curated DeFi portfolio aimed at maintaining maximum liquidity and minimizing risk, even over short time frames. USD+ can be exchanged for USDC upon the owner's request, providing a secured asset backed by reserves in short-term US Treasuries and fiat currencies. By offering these innovative financial solutions, Overnight Finance aims to enhance investment returns while prioritizing safety and stability for its users.

Sardine

Series A in 2022
Sardine is a financial technology company that specializes in providing a risk and fraud infrastructure tailored for the online economy. It has developed a device intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence and advanced risk engine software. This platform enhances fraud detection while minimizing sign-up friction by analyzing multiple real-time data points, including device information, browser details, and behavioral biometrics. By integrating this technology, Sardine enables businesses to establish a robust risk and fraud management framework, ultimately reducing costs within the fintech ecosystem.

Whistic

Series A in 2020
Whistic, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pleasant Grove, Utah. It operates an AI-powered platform designed to help organizations evaluate and manage the IT security risks associated with their SaaS vendors. Whistic's platform streamlines the vendor risk assessment process, allowing information security and compliance teams to establish effective third-party risk management programs. The solution offers a centralized repository for security and compliance documentation, facilitating easier responses to security review requests and aiding in regulatory compliance. Additionally, Whistic features a unique Trust Catalog that connects vendors with their customers, enabling seamless exchange of security and compliance information. This comprehensive approach significantly reduces the risk of data breaches and enhances customer trust in the vendor relationship.

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.

Whistic

Venture Round in 2019
Whistic, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pleasant Grove, Utah. It operates an AI-powered platform designed to help organizations evaluate and manage the IT security risks associated with their SaaS vendors. Whistic's platform streamlines the vendor risk assessment process, allowing information security and compliance teams to establish effective third-party risk management programs. The solution offers a centralized repository for security and compliance documentation, facilitating easier responses to security review requests and aiding in regulatory compliance. Additionally, Whistic features a unique Trust Catalog that connects vendors with their customers, enabling seamless exchange of security and compliance information. This comprehensive approach significantly reduces the risk of data breaches and enhances customer trust in the vendor relationship.

MADSKY

Seed Round in 2019
Madsky is a third-party administrative company focused on facilitating home repairs for homeowners affected by severe weather events. By acting as a liaison among homeowners, contractors, suppliers, vendors, and insurance companies, Madsky streamlines the restoration process. The company boasts a robust network of over 3,000 certified roofing contractors and more than 3,600 suppliers and vendors across the United States. Madsky offers a range of services including contracting, managed repair programs, and material purchases, ensuring clients receive efficient and reliable support. Homeowners benefit from a five-year workmanship warranty on repairs performed by Madsky-referred contractors, enhancing their peace of mind. The company's proprietary Frictionless Customer Experience (FCX) claim management system further optimizes the restoration process, addressing inefficiencies that often plague traditional approaches. Founded by Chris Nussbeck, who has over three decades of experience in the roofing and storm restoration industry, Madsky aims to provide a more automated and personalized solution to home repair challenges, responding to the increasing frequency and severity of weather-related damage.

KNØX

Seed Round in 2018
KNØX is a company specializing in digital asset custody, offering clients secure safekeeping solutions for their crypto holdings. The firm combines simplicity with high security to assist institutional clients in fulfilling their fiduciary responsibilities. KNØX's custody system employs actuarial principles and robust engineering methods to ensure that assets are not only safeguarded but also insured for their full value. Clients have access to a secure, end-to-end network through a dedicated terminal that facilitates asset management. Comprehensive insurance coverage is provided, subject to the specific terms of the policy, thereby giving clients added assurance regarding the protection of their investments.
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