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What does Chalfen Ventures invest in?
Chalfen Ventures invests most often at Series A and Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Software.
Chalfen Ventures highlights
- 01
4 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Series A and Seed: 100% of its rounds
- 03
Led 3 rounds
What they do
Chalfen Ventures is Mike Chalfen's VC firm. Mike backs software startups aiming to grow and dominate new and often unusual markets.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Software
- Based in
- London, United Kingdom
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first6 appearances
- 2026
3 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Feb
- 2025
1 round
- Nov
- 2024
2 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
MHMichael Hilary ChalfenLLP Designated MemberiForm ADV
We also hold 1 person at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$227Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Chalfen Ventures LLP
- SEC number
- CRD 315371
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Chalfen Ventures's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: an LP list.
Blue Future Partners1 fundFund Vintage Committed Chalfen Ventures - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
26 of 38 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.