Michael Chalfen

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Mr. Michael Chalfen serves as a Partner at Chalfen Ventures. He serves as a Board Member at Assaia, Lynceus, Harbr_, Lokalise, Octeract, General Index, Zaptic, Tray.io, Sedna, and Bridebook. He serves as an Advisory Board Member at Preface Ventures. He serves as a Board Observer at Levity, Amenitiz, and Moogsoft. He serves as an Advisor at Pharmacierge. He is an Angel Investor. He served as a General Partner at Advent Venture Partners. He Co-Founded and was an Investor at Mosaic Ventures. He served as a Board Member at Crate.io and Reveal. He also served as Director at Apax Partners. He also served as a Board Member, Investor & Advisor at Seal Software. Over the past 15 years, he has served on 18 boards and made around 30 investments across the technology and media sectors. Before joining Advent in 2008, he worked at Boston Consulting Group and then spent ten years at Apax (four as a Partner) before going on to make private investments. His deals included growth buyouts such as Future Publishing (FUT.L) and Ginger Media (sold to SMG.L); growth 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 was awarded a "starred" Double First in History at Cambridge University, he was later the Choate Fellow at Harvard University. He served as a Board Member at Ubiquisys. He serves as a Non-Executive Director on the boards of Worldstores and Ubiquisys. Privately he is also an investor and non-executive Director at Seal Software and Houzz.com, DudaMobile, and an unannounced cloud security vendor. He serves as a Board Member at Time is Ltd.