March 29, 2024

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“Most active investor” FJ Labs closes on $260M across two new funds

Fabrice Grinda says he never intended to run a venture firm. He just really (really) enjoyed angel investing. In fact, by late 2013, when he was on the verge of selling the global classifieds marketplace OLX — his third business — he says he had already written checks to more than 150 startups with his […]

“Most active investor” FJ Labs closes on $260M across two new funds by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

The most active global VC firm on deal terms, fatality rates, and the drawbacks of credit lines

Yesterday, we had the chance to catch up with Fabrice Grinda, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded the free classifieds site OLX — now owned by Prosus — and who has in recent years been building up his venture firm, FJ Labs. He often likens the outfit to an angel investor “at scale,” saying that like […]

The most active global VC firm on deal terms, fatality rates, and the drawbacks of credit lines by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

BlueOcean raises $30M for its AI-based brand intelligence platform

The medium is the message more than ever these days, and brands are faced with a challenge — but also opportunity — to capture what consumers think about them and their products if they can harness and better understand those messages, via whichever medium is being used to deliver them. Today, a company called BlueOcean […]