Chalfen Ventures is a venture capital firm that recently backed Translucent and 5Mins.
Portfolio
14
companies
5Mins
A gamified workplace learning platform delivering bite-sized professional development through a short-form video feed.
5Mins AI
Gamified workplace learning platform featuring bite-sized lessons and intelligent personalisation.
Cogna
Cogna provides AI-powered software development to solve complex operational inefficiencies for traditional industries.
Deblock
Deblock provides a fully on chain banking solution that unifies traditional current accounts with self custody crypto wallets.
Flexciton
Flexciton develops optimisation technology that improves the efficiency and productivity of semiconductor manufacturing processes.
General Index
General Index builds technology driven commodity price benchmarks for global trade.
Levity
Levity provides a no-code automation platform that helps businesses process unstructured data using artificial intelligence.
Opply
Opply provides an automated end-to-end supply chain platform for consumer brands and suppliers.
Sedna
Sedna provides a maritime communication platform to streamline global trade operations.
Stackfix
Stackfix operates an AI-powered software comparison platform for businesses globally.
SurrealDB
SurrealDB provides an artificial intelligence native database platform for modern applications.
Tracelight
Tracelight develops an artificial intelligence plug-in for Excel-based financial modelling.
Translucent
Translucent provides an accounting platform that solves financial management problems for multi-entity businesses.
Worldover
Regulatory compliance software for cosmetic brands.
Mike Chalfen
Founder
Mike operates as a solo venture capitalist at Chalfen Ventures, following a tenure as co-founder and partner at Mosaic Ventures.
LinkedInChalfen Ventures and Begin Capital join existing backers to support the rollout of SurrealDB 3.0.
"This fresh investment demonstrates a growing level of excitement for our category-defining, developer-friendly database. Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital have joined this round due to our strong momentum in real-world usage, and clear path to large-scale production."
Speedinvest led the Series A round to fund the company expansion into Germany and the wider European market.
"With a strong footprint in our home market France, Germany is the perfect starting point for our ambitious European expansion. Our goal is to create a clear and secure way to use both euros and digital assets in everyday life – and these markets are critical to defining the future of on-chain banking in Europe."
The seed round was led by Chalfen Ventures and will support product development and team expansion.
"Complex financial models underpin all of the corporate world’s most important decisions. Until now, LLMs have barely touched this workflow. Tracelight is purpose-built for this; it works seamlessly inside the tools analysts already trust. Our aim is to take away the entire mechanical workload of financial modelling. Our users act as directors and orchestrators of AI that is quickly becoming superhuman at the task of Excel analysis."
The London-founded software comparison platform secured Seed backing from Chalfen Ventures and Seedcamp to scale its AI technology.
"The software market is at a tipping point. AI has enabled an explosion of new products, but the tools to help businesses choose the right software haven’t kept up. Stackfix is changing that with an AI-powered, real-time solution that makes software buying faster, simpler, and more accurate. We’re thrilled to have the backing of such incredible investors as we work to build the ultimate software comparison platform."
Notion Capital led the Series A round to support Cogna in scaling its AI-powered software development platform across traditional industries.
"Traditional industries have been left behind by the digital revolution due to the complexity of their operational challenges. Cogna’s mission is to empower these sectors with precision software technology that addresses every unique company pain point on its own terms, enabling immediate productivity gains. This funding allows us to bring our technology to more industries and help organisations reduce bottlenecks and free their expert teams from arduous manual tasks, unlocking their vast untapped potential."
