Team - FJ Labs

Fabrice is an Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, student and lover of life, aspiring Renaissance man and co-founder of OLX, one of the largest free classifieds sites in the world.

Fabrice Grinda

Founding Partner

Jose is a serial entrepreneur and global investor. He co-founded Deremate.com, project builder IG Expansion, and Serendipity Investments that has invested in more than 200 companies. He loves flying and extreme sports, plays the piano and tennis, and speaks 5 languages.

Jose Marin

Founding Partner

A Norwegian native, Arne [ˈɑrni] joined the FJ Labs team in the spring of 2016. He lived in San Francisco for 1.5 years, where he was director of global partnerships for Telenor and focused on business development with Google [x].

Arne Halleraker

Partner

Jeff Weinstein is a Partner at FJ Labs. He was previously a Senior Associate at Lux Capital. Outside of work, Jeff is a competitive runner training to run a sub-four minute mile. Jeff holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jeff Weinstein

Partner

Matias is a Principal at FJ Labs. Previously, he was an M&A investment banker at JPMorgan covering technology companies. Before that, he held different strategy, ops, and finance roles, most recently at Pryon, an AI enterprise software company where he focused on go-to-market

Matias Barbero

Investor

Luke is an investor at FJ Labs. Previously, he was an investor at M25 and held product management roles at three VC-backed startups. Luke earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business & a Bachelor’s in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Ur

Luke Skertich

Investor

Camila is an analyst on our investment team. Prior to FJ, she worked with Zeeba Investment Group as a Junior Desk Head and with FJ incubation company, Umamicart. Originally from Peru, she loves the outdoors and culinary experiences. Camila holds a BS in Global Business from Georg

Camila Bustamante

Analyst

Jeff is the Head of Portfolio at FJ Labs. He has spent nearly 15 years as an Internet entrepreneur. Most recently, he founded Talent Inc., the leader in tech-enabled career services, which was bought by a private equity firm. FJ was one of the first investors in Talent.

Jeff Berger

Head of Portfolio

Jaye is the Head of Investor Relations at FJ Labs. Prior to FJ, she was a Director at TD Securities, having spent 13+ years on the trading floor in various roles across corporate & institutional fixed income sales, trading, and origination in London, New York, and Toronto. Or

Jaye Landow

Head of Investor Relations

Matt is Head of Operations and an investor at FJ Labs. Matt began his career in GE’s Financial Management Program, and, most recently, worked as a Sr. Director at FTI Consulting. He holds a B.S. in Finance from Fordham University and MBAs from Columbia Business School and Londo

Matthew Stone

Head of Operations

Zineb is an associate at FJ Labs. Previously, Zineb worked at Deutsche Bank in Asset and Wealth Management. Zineb is originally from Morocco and studied Economics and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and holds a Masters in Applied Analytics from Columbia University

Zineb Belghiti

Associate

Lexi is a Finance/Accounting Associate at FJ Labs. She was previously a Consultant at Deloitte Tax and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant. She holds a MS in Taxation from Baruch College and a BS in Accounting from the University at Albany.

Lexi Shannon

Finance/Accounting Associate

Rodd Macklin

CFO

William has 18 years of experience in C2C and B2C marketplaces. During his 8 years as OLX CMO, he spent $300M in 20 different countries as different as Russia, UAE, Brazil, India, South Africa, Portugal, Vietnam and Egypt.

William Guillouard

Venture Partner

Prior to joining FJ Labs in 2019, Nancy launched and operated new markets at Uber in 7 countries across Asia, Latin America, and the US. Her passions include weightlifting and getting her hands on any good sci-fi read. She studied BA Economics at Northwestern and MBA at Harvard.

Nancy Dong

Entrepreneur-in-Residence & Investor

Andrea is an EIR & Investor. Before FJ, she led financing transactions across LatAm and Asia as part of Principal Investments and EM teams at Goldman Sachs. She is Spanish-born-Chinese and is fluent in both Spanish and Mandarin. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a B.A. from NYU

Andrea Xu

Entrepreneur-in-Residence & Investor

Agapitos joined FJ Labs in 2019. Previously he held consulting and operations roles at BCG and Rocket Internet, working in total in ten countries. He is a big basketball fan and an avid skier. Agapitos is an engineer by training and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Agapitos Diakogiannis

Entrepreneur-in-Residence & Investor

Martin joined FJ Labs in 2018. Previously, he held different investing, operations and consulting roles at Exor, OLX and BCG. Martin is originally from Argentina and holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and a BA in Economics from U. Torcuato Di Tella.

Martin Pustilnick

Entrepreneur-in-Residence & Investor

Mark Lurie focuses on cryptocurrency & blockchain at FJ. He is a 2x founder (a cryptocurrency, ICO 2018; an online marketplace, Acq. 2018) & a former investor at Bessemer Venture Partners. Mark is a Boston-native & can usually be found hiking, biking, or camping. He holds an MBA

Mark Lurie

Venture Partner

Originally from Argentina, Güimar is a Venture Partner at FJ Labs and co-founder of Merlin. Güimar led over 150 investments for FJ Labs since 2013. Güimar previously co-founded Instacarro and Cenaplus (acq by Restorando). Güimar is a competitive ping pong player.

Güimar Vaca Sittic

Venture Partner

Morgan is the founder of Adore Me, a leader in online DTC fashion disruption. Elected 3x in the Inc500 ranking, and #2 fastest growing US retailer, the company stands for women empowerment and inclusivity. Morgan was nominated top 100 US entrepreneur by Goldman Sachs, top Silicon

Morgan Hermand-Waiche

Venture Partner

Founder of Mealco, a platform that allows anyone to create and manage a restaurant from their mobile phone. Previously a developer and product lead at TV disrupter Applicaster and investor at Viola and FJLabs. Holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an MBA from MIT.

Daniel Simon

Venture Partner

Olivier is a tech entrepneur whom co-founded 4 startups across the USA and Latam. He is also an angel investor with over 40 investments which includes, Adoreme, Airbnb, Uber and Opendoor. He is currently a VP at Clearbanc.com

Olivier Grinda

Venture Partner

2x founder (Merlin, an hourly jobs marketplace, Acq. in 2020; and Matoko Fund, a social enterprise in rural Uganda) investor and advisor. Madrid-born, passionate about big wall climbing and ski mountaineering. Preiously @ Goldman Sachs, MBA @ MIT Sloan, Forbes 30 under 30.

Borja Moreno de los Rios

Venture Partner

Erez focuses on opportunities in Web3 and blockchain, where he has led several dozen early stage investments in the space and is an active member of several DAOs. He is 3x founder whose prior experience also includes working directly for Julian H. Robertson at Tiger. He is passio

Erez Kalir

Venture Partner

Anshul is the founder of Properly, a Canadian tech-enabled real estate brokerage that is making real estate customer-centric from ‘search’ to ‘sale’. Anshul is based in Toronto, where he lives with his wife and young son, and can often be found on his road bike. Anshul i

Anshul Ruparell

Venture Partner