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Chalfen Ventures

Chalfen Ventures

Venture Capital

Chalfen Ventures is a venture capital firm that recently backed Translucent and 5Mins.


Recent investments

Series A
£9.5M

The Series A round was led by 20VC and Chalfen Ventures to accelerate product development in clean energy markets.

"Energy and commodities account for around $5trillion worth of world trade, and price benchmarks are used in the majority of those contracts. Historically, these benchmarks have been created manually by journalists in traditional media organisations. The industry has found this inconsistent and expensive – often being forced to pay tens of millions of dollars for this data. This is exactly what GX is hereto disrupt! We’re bringing technology to produce better benchmarks, that objectively price the world’s trade. We are excited to work with 20VC alongside Chalfen Ventures to accelerate our expansion into the energy transition as these markets mature into tradable commodities."
— Neil Bradford, Founder & CEO
Seed
£3.0M

The seed round was led by Index Ventures and Chalfen Ventures.

"We want to reduce the pain involved with bringing physical products to market. Currently, companies are spending up to 1% of their total revenue on making their products compliant through consultancy costs or the need for extensive internal teams which manually process documents. We’ve greatly accelerated the process by automating much of the data extraction. We’re starting with a laser focus on cosmetics, but our vision is to eventually enable any business to launch any product in any market."
— Edward Alun-Jones, CEO and co-founder
Seed
£5.0M

The seed round was co-led by Chalfen Ventures and LocalGlobe to fund further product development.

"Since announcing Translucent in March we have been delighted by the volume of interest we have received. This fundraising allows us to further build out our platform and solve the accounting and finance problems faced by multi-entity businesses."
— Michael Wood, CEO
Seed
£5.1M

The seed round was led by AlbionVC with participation from Chalfen Ventures, Portfolio Ventures, Blue Lion Global, and Edenred Capital Partners.

"Our mission is to help companies build a learning culture so their people can unlock their true potential, and we have come a long way in a short period of time. We are building the first global learning superapp that companies of all sizes can use to upskill everyone, improve employee retention and drive innovation."
— Saurav Chopra
Seed
£5.0M

The seed round was led by AlbionVC with participation from Chalfen Ventures, Edenred Capital Partners, Portfolio Ventures and Blue Lion Global.

"5Mins sits at the crossroads of two massive shifts: employee engagement on one side and 'TikTokisation of everything' on the other. The impressive commercial momentum and next level user engagement the company has been experiencing in a short amount of time is testament that the market is craving for more personalised, engaging learning tools. Saurav has a lot of experience in the space which makes him uniquely well placed to disrupt this large broken market. We are so thrilled to be partnering with him and the whole team to achieve this ambitious vision!"
— Nadine Torbey, Investment Director