Chris Caulkin

Managing Director & EMEA Head of Technology at General Atlantic

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Mar 2026
Boats Group operates the world’s most trusted and widely used online marketplaces for buying and selling boats, including Boat Trader, YachtWorld, and boats.com. For over 30 years, Boats Group has led the marine industry’s transformation, consistently setting the standard for how boats are discovered, marketed, and sold online. Today, the company reaches more than 200 million boat shoppers annually and is powering the next generation of recreational boating commerce with AI-enabled tools, data-driven marketing solutions, financing services, and actionable insights. Backed by the largest inventory and audience in the industry, Boats Group helps OEMs, dealers, and brokers grow their business and connect with buyers more efficiently than any other source.
Board Member
May 2024
Adevinta is a leading online classifieds group and champion for sustainable commerce across Europe and beyond. With digital marketplaces across many countries, our portfolio spans consumer goods, mobility, real estate, holiday rentals and jobs. Together, our marketplaces attract more than 120 million users every month and over a million businesses.
Board Member
Sep 2022
Kahoot! transforms presentations and training with engagement. With Kahoot!, you can create and host games in a live session, or assign self-paced games for remote training. It is used by executives, HR, L&D professionals, sales teams, and more for training, compliance, presentations and events, to connect and engage the audience. As well as energizing and exciting an audience, Kahoot! is a powerful formative assessment tool which helps trainers achieve better learning outcomes. The data presented during the game, and reports made available after the game, help provide targeted instruction. The magic of Kahoot! is how it makes players learn without even realizing it! High engagement quizzes increase knowledge retention and provide a better return on training investment. Kahoot! is trusted by 97% of Fortune 500 companies in making their presentations and training engaging, and is used in over 200 countries. Follow us to find out how to make learning awesome in your business.
Board Observer
Dec 2021
PayFit makes payroll and HR management simple for small businesses. We’re an automated SaaS that helps HR teams and business owners save time and money on their payroll and HR tasks. That way, they can focus on what really matters: their employees. Since 2015, we’ve made it our mission to support digital HR transformation within companies across Europe with our ever-evolving range of product features and services. PayFit operates in France, Spain and the United Kingdom. 18,0000+ businesses trust us to run their payroll every month, including Livestorrm, Heetch and Gymlib, and over 850 people are part of the PayFit adventure.
Board Member
Sep 2021
Matillion is the productivity platform for data teams. Matillion makes data work more productive by empowering the entire data team – coders and non-coders alike – to move, transform, and orchestrate data pipelines faster.
Board Member
May 2021
Leader del ricondizionato B2C, Back Market è il primo marketplace europeo di vendita di prodotti elettrici ed elettronici rigenerati. Con una forte presenza europea, Back Market permette ugualmente alle startup e piccole e medie imprese di acquisire materiale tech verificato e garantito, a prezzi che sfidano ogni concorrenza. La nostra missione è rendere “cool” e alla moda il consumo di questa gamma di prodotti “risuscitati”: la cosa suona british e cristologica, ma è esattamente così! Ritrova le nostre offerte di ricondizionati certificati al 100% su www.backmarket.it: smartphone, tablet e high-tech ti aspettano.
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Mar 2019
We’re a B Corp company committed to build together the healthcare we all dream of. More than 2,900 Doctolibers in France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands are helping to improve the daily lives of care teams with a new generation of technologies and services. At the same time, Doctolib is helping over 80 million patients to effectively manage their health and provide quick and easy access to optimal healthcare.
Board Member
May 2018
Launched in 2013, OpenClassrooms has become one of the largest online education and training platforms in Europe. Our unique approach revolutionizes learning with skills-based, mentored degree programs targeted to in-demand professions. Every month, over 300k registered users learn on our platform, via our 600+ courses and 50+ certified online degree programs known as learning paths. Learning paths include weekly, personalized mentoring sessions with professionals working in the field. After raising +$150 million, weve grown steadily from a workforce of 50 to 600+, in France, the UK, and the US. We remain committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive team; OpenClassrooms is a predominantly feminine tech startup, with 60% of women in the company. Were based in Paris, France but 22% of our team hail from different countries.
Board Member
Jul 2017
Typeform is a refreshingly different form builder that helps you collect zero-party data while providing a stellar brand experience.
Board Member
Jul 2017
Créé en France en 2013, ManoMano est le leader européen spécialiste du bricolage, de la maison, et du jardin en ligne. Cofondé par Philippe de Chanville et Christian Raisson, ManoMano, en fédérant plus de 5 000 marchands, rassemble la plus grande offre de produits de bricolage & de jardinage en ligne, soit plus de 19 millions de références. La scale-up opère sur 6 marchés (France, Belgique, Espagne, Italie, Allemagne, Royaume-Uni). Parallèlement à ManoMano, nous avons lancé ManoManoPro en France en 2019. Spécialement conçu par, et pour, les professionnels du commerce, ManoManoPro est un service B2B dédié " unique en son genre " qui vise à leur faciliter la vie. ManoManoPro est désormais présent sur tous nos marchés (Espagne et Italie en 2020, Royaume-Uni et Allemagne en 2022).
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2026
Board Member
Mar 2026
Boats Group operates the world’s most trusted and widely used online marketplaces for buying and selling boats, including Boat Trader, YachtWorld, and boats.com. For over 30 years, Boats Group has led the marine industry’s transformation, consistently setting the standard for how boats are discovered, marketed, and sold online. Today, the company reaches more than 200 million boat shoppers annually and is powering the next generation of recreational boating commerce with AI-enabled tools, data-driven marketing solutions, financing services, and actionable insights. Backed by the largest inventory and audience in the industry, Boats Group helps OEMs, dealers, and brokers grow their business and connect with buyers more efficiently than any other source.
2024
Board Member
May 2024
Adevinta is a leading online classifieds group and champion for sustainable commerce across Europe and beyond. With digital marketplaces across many countries, our portfolio spans consumer goods, mobility, real estate, holiday rentals and jobs. Together, our marketplaces attract more than 120 million users every month and over a million businesses.
2022
Board Member
Sep 2022
Kahoot! transforms presentations and training with engagement. With Kahoot!, you can create and host games in a live session, or assign self-paced games for remote training. It is used by executives, HR, L&D professionals, sales teams, and more for training, compliance, presentations and events, to connect and engage the audience. As well as energizing and exciting an audience, Kahoot! is a powerful formative assessment tool which helps trainers achieve better learning outcomes. The data presented during the game, and reports made available after the game, help provide targeted instruction. The magic of Kahoot! is how it makes players learn without even realizing it! High engagement quizzes increase knowledge retention and provide a better return on training investment. Kahoot! is trusted by 97% of Fortune 500 companies in making their presentations and training engaging, and is used in over 200 countries. Follow us to find out how to make learning awesome in your business.
2021
Board Observer
Dec 2021
PayFit makes payroll and HR management simple for small businesses. We’re an automated SaaS that helps HR teams and business owners save time and money on their payroll and HR tasks. That way, they can focus on what really matters: their employees. Since 2015, we’ve made it our mission to support digital HR transformation within companies across Europe with our ever-evolving range of product features and services. PayFit operates in France, Spain and the United Kingdom. 18,0000+ businesses trust us to run their payroll every month, including Livestorrm, Heetch and Gymlib, and over 850 people are part of the PayFit adventure.
Board Member
Sep 2021
Matillion is the productivity platform for data teams. Matillion makes data work more productive by empowering the entire data team – coders and non-coders alike – to move, transform, and orchestrate data pipelines faster.
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