Fabrice Grinda

‘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 marketpl

Deal terms, fatality rates and the drawbacks of credit lines; a view from today’s most active VC firm

Yesterday, we had the chance to catch up with Fabrice Grinda, a French, New York-based serial entrepreneur who co-founded the free classifieds site OLX — now owned by Prosus — and who has

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 ca

As concerns rise over forest carbon offsets, Pachama’s verified offset marketplace gets $15 million

Restoring and preserving the world’s forests has long been considered one of the easiest, lowest-cost and simplest ways to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It’s by

Muzmatch adds $7M to swipe right on Muslim-majority markets

Muzmatch, a matchmaking app for Muslims, has just swiped a $7 million Series A on the back of continued momentum for its community-sensitive approach to soulmate searching for people of the Islamic fa

InstaCarro raises $22 million to tackle Brazil’s $50 billion used-car market

InstaCarro, a Brazilian-based marketplace for buying and selling used cars, has raised a whopping $22 million in its first institutional round of venture financing. One of the largest early-stage inve

A serial founder on Trump: “He’s a startup that disrupted the establishment”

Fabrice Grinda, a longtime New Yorker, has helped create hundreds of jobs for Americans and others. Among the companies he has started is OLX, one of the largest free classifieds sites in the world 

GrubMarket raises $20 million to expand its online farmer’s market

Forget food delivery. Just the organic slice of the grocery delivery business remains competitive in the U.S. with giants from the brick and mortar world, tech titans and upstarts all muscling in for

Buy A Car On Your Phone With The New Beepi App

Thanks to the folks at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.beepi.com/default.aspx">Beepi</a>, you can now buy a car with nothing more than the iPhone in your hand (well, that and the money in your ba

Octoly Is A Multi-Channel Network Alternative For The Rest Of YouTube

Multi-channel networks like <a target="_blank" href="http://www.machinima.com">Machinima</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.makers.com">Makers</a> are taking care of the top 1 percent of pro

Venture Investors Get Fashion Fever As Early Stage Deals Soar

There's a brand new dance in venture capital, as investors have gone fashion-mad. After watching JustFab and Gilt Groupe explode into billion dollar companies while Warby Parker raised over $100 mi

Shoply Aims To Socialize Ecommerce, Raises Seed Funding From Top Notch Investors

<strong>Exclusive -</strong> On a mission to democratize e-commerce and help take the concept of social shopping from fad to reality, <a href="http://shoply.com/">Shoply</a> is making its formal debut

Serial Entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda On Angel Investing, Brazil And Russia

Serial Internet entrepreneur and angel investor <a href="http://www.fabricegrinda.com/">Fabrice Grinda</a> took the stage at <a href="http://leweb.net">Le Web</a> this morning to share his thoughts on