Michael Chalfen

Michael Chalfen is a director at Chalfen Ventures. He is also a board member of Harbr, Lokalise, Octeract, Reveal.co, Zaptic, Time is Ltd, Tray.io, SEDNA Communications and Bridebook. Serves as a board observer at Levity and Moogsoft. He is an advisor to Pharmacierge. He is an angel investor. Served as a general partner at Advent Venture Partners. Co-founded and was an investor at Mosaic Ventures. He was a board member at Crate.io. He was also a director at Apax Partners. He was also a board member, investor and advisor at Seal Software. Over the past 15 years, he has served on 18 boards and made about 30 investments in the technology and media sectors. Before joining Advent in 2008, he worked at Boston Consulting Group and then spent ten years at Apax (four years as a partner) before going into private equity. His deals include buyouts of companies like Future Publishing (FUT.L) and Ginger Media (sold to SMG.L); equity investments in SuSE Linux (sold to NOVL, now Attachmate), Eyretel (sold to WITS, now VRNT), Ubizen (sold to Cybertrust) and King. com; and start-ups such as eDreams.com (sold to TA Associates), QXL.com (sold to Naspers), Tideway Systems (sold to BMC), Prevx (sold to Webroot) and Fizzback (sold to NICE Systems). He received a “stellar” double first degree in history from Cambridge University, later being a Choate Fellow at Harvard University. He was a board member of Ubiquisys. He is a non-executive director on the boards of Worldstores and Ubiquisys. Privately, he is also an investor and non-executive director of Seal Software, as well as Houzz.com, DudaMobile and a yet-to-be-announced cloud security technology provider.