# FJ Labs

> FJ Labs is a VC fund in New York backing Software and E-Commerce. See 1,478 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 1,478
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Fund size: $5.5M
- Last fund: Oct 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fj-labs
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/FjLabs
- Website: http://www.fjlabs.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FJLABS/

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investments are seed and series A. The investment range of the company is $50,000 to $5,000,000. It invests in Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$10M |
| Series A | $5M–$30M |
| Series B | $12M–$68M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 119 | 8% |
| E-Commerce | 109 | 7% |
| Financial Services | 87 | 6% |
| FinTech | 81 | 5% |
| Marketplace | 74 | 5% |

353 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 286 | 19% |
| Series A | 168 | 11% |
| Series B | 93 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 54 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 50 | 3% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 288 | 19% |
| Brazil | 34 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 31 | 2% |
| France | 25 | 2% |
| Canada | 24 | 2% |

50 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Matias Barbero | Investor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matias-barbero-9279 |
| Anshul Ruparell | EIR & Investor | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anshul-ruparell |
| Ariel Lebowits | CFO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ariel-lebowits |
| Arne Halleraker | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arne-halleraker |
| Daniel Simon | venture partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-simon-59a1 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jusfy | Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations. | $15M | Series A | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Fleek | Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres. | $25M | Series B | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Bidbus | We’re building an AI-first C2B marketplace that enables dealerships to source consumer-owned used cars at scale. Sellers list their cars on our weekly auctions and receive high offers due to dealer competitions. Dealers access quality inventory that match their buying preferences without the hassle of sourcing from fragmented channels. | $15M | Series A | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Forage | Forage is a third-party payment processor (TPP) and a pin provider that authenticates and processes EBT recipients and transactions. Forage makes it easier for grocers to accept SNAP EBT payments online. Forage guides merchants through the USDA application process and tech integration for merchants, taking most of the burden off retailers.Foragedemocratizes access to government benefits and helps underserved Americans easily access their benefits online. Forage works with multiple grocers and platforms such as Shopify and Flashfood to accept SNAP EBT payments online. | $40M | Series B | Jun 03, 2026 |  |
| Constrafor | Constrafor is a SaaS and fintech innovator purpose-built for construction. Constrafor is setting new standards of productivity and cost-efficiency for the way GCs and subcontractors manage essential back-office tasks and financial transactions.For general contractors, Constrafor’s cloud platform streamlines and standardizes subcontractorprocurement and administration, including contracts, COIs, invoices and payments, and diversity procurement – all in one place.For subcontractors, the platform offers fast and cost-effective receivables financing, including an Early Pay Program (EPP) that shortens the invoice payment cycle, frees up cash, and allows them to take on more projects. |  | Series A | May 29, 2026 |  |
| SuperDial | SuperDial leverages conversational AI to automate tedious outbound phone calls on behalf of healthcare organizations. Our customers include leading RCM companies, DSOs, digital health providers, and provider data vendors. We help these customers automate a variety of call types including benefits verifications, claim follow-ups, prior authfollow-ups, credentialing & enrollment follow-ups and provider data inquiries. SuperDial can be extended to new use cases, so if there's another type of outbound phone call you'd like to automate, please reach out to us! |  | Series B | May 29, 2026 |  |
| Ziina | Ziina is a financial technology platform that offers digital payment and money transfer services for consumers, freelancers, and businesses in the UAE. Its services include peer-to-peer transfers, payment links, QR code payments, Tap to Pay functionality, digital wallets, and payment gateway tools for online businesses. |  | Series A | May 22, 2026 |  |
| Provi | Provi is the largest online marketplace that simplifies the complex process of ordering wholesale alcohol by connecting buyers, distributors and suppliers. Active in key markets throughout the U.S., Provi's robust, online marketplace improves communication and efficiency for on- and off-premise buyers, distributors and suppliers. As of 2022,10 percent of licensed retailers in the U.S. are on the marketplace. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Provi has received a total of $125 million in funding, is valued at $750 million and has recently been named an Emerging Unicorn by Crunchbase. The company also received Built In Chicago's Best Places to Work recognition in 2022. In 2022, Provi joined forces with SevenFifty. |  | Convertible Note | May 21, 2026 |  |
| Hark | Hark is an AI lab focused on creating advanced personal intelligence through the combination of foundation models and specialized hardware. The company develops an AI interface through custom hardware and autonomous computing, integrated with multimodal models and highly personalized memory. | $700M | Series A | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Goodweek | Goodweek is a software development firm offering secure enterprise AI platform integrating models to protect company knowledge. |  | Seed | May 08, 2026 |  |

10 of 1,478 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 42 deals together
- [Pareto Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-holdings) — VC Fund, 39 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 38 deals together
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- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 27 deals together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 27 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does FJ Labs invest in?

FJ Labs invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 1,478 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is FJ Labs's check size?

FJ Labs typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$10M at Seed, $5M–$30M at Series A and $12M–$68M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds FJ Labs participates in.

### How do I contact FJ Labs?

Public channels for FJ Labs include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at FJ Labs?

The team at FJ Labs includes Matias Barbero (Investor), Anshul Ruparell (EIR & Investor) and Ariel Lebowits (CFO), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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