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Chalfen Ventures

Chalfen Ventures

Venture Capital

Chalfen Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London.

Portfolio

15

companies

Investment by month

By category

  • AI/ML£75.5M
  • Blockchain£26.3M
  • SaaS£17.0M
  • Semiconductor£15.0M
  • IT Services£9.5M
  • Other£13.1M

By location

  • London£123M
  • France£26.3M
  • Berlin£7.5M

Portfolio companies

5

5Mins

A gamified workplace learning platform delivering bite-sized professional development through a short-form video feed.

5Mins AI

5Mins AI

Gamified workplace learning platform featuring bite-sized lessons and intelligent personalisation.

Cogna

Cogna

Cogna provides AI-powered software development to solve complex operational inefficiencies for traditional industries.

Deblock

Deblock

Deblock provides a fully on chain banking solution that unifies traditional current accounts with self custody crypto wallets.

Flexciton

Flexciton

Flexciton develops optimisation technology that improves the efficiency and productivity of semiconductor manufacturing processes.

GI

General Index

General Index builds technology driven commodity price benchmarks for global trade.

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Team

Mike Chalfen

Mike Chalfen

Sole General Partner

Mike operates as a solo venture capitalist at Chalfen Ventures, following a tenure as co-founder and partner at Mosaic Ventures.

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Recent investments

$17.0M

The financing will support international expansion and the development of broader product categories.

"The speed at which Nous is being adopted is a clear demonstration of its ability to save people huge amounts of money and time. We’re at the very beginning of a fundamental shift in consumer behaviour enabled by AI. UK households spend £1.7tn a year on things they pay for automatically and don’t have time to think about. We believe that over 50% of that will be managed by agents in the next 10 years,"
— Greg Marsh, Founder and CEO
$7.5M

The London startup has increased its gross revenue fifteenfold over the past year.

"CPG supply chains have remained fragmented and manual for far too long. By taking operational complexity out of the equation, we give ambitious brands the headroom to grow faster, invest in innovation and reach more customers. Our AI technology doesn’t just tell brands what needs to be done. It does the work, managing everything from sourcing and procurement to payments and supply chains"
— Helen Murphy, Founder
Series A
£17.0M

Chalfen 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."
— Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, Co-founder and CEO
Series A
£26.3M

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."
— Jean Meyer, Co-founder and CEO
Seed
£2.7M

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."
— Peter Fuller, Co-founder and CEO