Freddie Kalfayan

Principal at Smedvig Ventures

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom
7
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6y
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Investor/Board Observer
Jun 2025
At chatlyn, we’re rethinking how communication works in hospitality. Our platform connects messaging apps, booking systems, and hotel teams in one seamless place, powered by AI that actually understands guest needs. We help hotels, resorts, and travel providers automate the repetitive, personalize the important, and respond faster across every channel. The result? Happier guests, more efficient teams, and higher revenue. Hospitality is still a people business — we’re just giving teams the right tools to focus on what really matters.
Investor/Board Observer
Nov 2024
MarketLeap is an AI-driven platform that empowers D2C sellers to scale effortlessly across global marketplaces.
Investor/Board Observer
Oct 2024
Avantia is leading the way in legal services innovation. We combine tailor made services, expert lawyers who understand your business and custom-built AI technology. Our team of lawyers, project managers and tech experts work with you to support your business, and deliver routine legal and compliance work fast and cost-efficiently.
late stageLegal Services
Investor/Board Observer
Nov 2023
Minut is the intelligence layer for proactive property management. From short-term rentals and student housing to multifamily units and aparthotels, Minut helps operators to stay one step ahead of issues like smoking, noise, and mold. With real-time insights and proactive alerts, Minut is creating a new layer of infrastructure for shared spaces, giving teams the foresight to run smarter, safer, and more profitable properties.
Board Observer
Jan 2022
Whip Media is the leading SaaS company powering the global media and entertainment industry. Our AI-native platform, Helix, delivers data and actionable intelligence that power the content supply chain, improve operational efficiency, and enable profitable decision-making at scale. It’s transforming how the business of content gets done.
Board Observer
Jun 2021
Adzuna is a smarter, more transparent job search engine used by tens of millions of visitors per month. We love using the awesome power of technology to bring together every job in one place, help match people to better, more fulfilling jobs and keep the world working. Adzuna.co.uk was founded in 2011 by Andrew Hunter and Doug Monro, formerly of eBay, Gumtree, Qype and Zoopla and is backed by leading Venture Capital firms Passion Capital, LocalGlobe, Index Ventures and Smedvig Capital. We’ve spent a decade developing smarter, more transparent job search so jobseekers worldwide (we’re in 19 countries) can zero in on the right role faster. We also supply real-time data to the Number 10 Dashboard and Office for National Statistics labour market indices. In 2018, Adzuna won the contract to run Find a job, one of the British government’s most used online services. In 2022, Adzuna acquired enterprise job search engine Getwork.
Investor/Board Observer
Dec 2020
proSapient is a cutting-edge expert network and primary research platform that enables professionals to share insights with clients through short calls, online surveys and long-term engagements. Our clients include many of the world’s largest and most respected consultancy and private equity firms, and we have been featured in the Financial Times and in Sifted as one of the 100 fastest-growing businesses in Europe and the UK. Since our launch in 2017, we have revolutionized expert networking by offering new capabilities including the industry’s first AI-powered platform, enabling smarter, faster decision-making. Headquartered in the UK, proSapient is ISO 27001 accredited and employs over 300 people across four global locations: London, Lisbon, Raleigh, and Toronto. Should an opportunity arise where we think your experience could be relevant for an expert call, one of our Client Services Associates will contact you and help to determine whether there is a suitable fit, agree a rate to compensate you for your time and then submit your profile to our client. Our client then decides whether to work with a given expert and should they wish to move forward, our Associate will assist in scheduling a call at a suitable time. We are continuously reimagining the expert networking landscape and remain at the forefront of technological innovation, committed to building the future of knowledge discovery. In recognition of our technological leadership, weve been recognized as a Future Fifty company by Tech Nation.
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2025
Investor/Board Observer
Jun 2025
At chatlyn, we’re rethinking how communication works in hospitality. Our platform connects messaging apps, booking systems, and hotel teams in one seamless place, powered by AI that actually understands guest needs. We help hotels, resorts, and travel providers automate the repetitive, personalize the important, and respond faster across every channel. The result? Happier guests, more efficient teams, and higher revenue. Hospitality is still a people business — we’re just giving teams the right tools to focus on what really matters.
2024
Investor/Board Observer
Nov 2024
MarketLeap is an AI-driven platform that empowers D2C sellers to scale effortlessly across global marketplaces.
Investor/Board Observer
Oct 2024
Avantia is leading the way in legal services innovation. We combine tailor made services, expert lawyers who understand your business and custom-built AI technology. Our team of lawyers, project managers and tech experts work with you to support your business, and deliver routine legal and compliance work fast and cost-efficiently.
late stageLegal Services
Principal
Jan 2024
Smedvig Ventures helps B2B tech teams scale more confidently from early traction to inspiring success stories. We invest between €4-8m in rounds of up to €20m across Europe. We work with a select portfolio of ambitious companies; we’ve made this journey countless times over more than two decades and provide focused input that creates the biggest impact. Smedvig Ventures Limited is an appointed representative of Smedvig Capital Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
2023
Investor/Board Observer
Nov 2023
Minut is the intelligence layer for proactive property management. From short-term rentals and student housing to multifamily units and aparthotels, Minut helps operators to stay one step ahead of issues like smoking, noise, and mold. With real-time insights and proactive alerts, Minut is creating a new layer of infrastructure for shared spaces, giving teams the foresight to run smarter, safer, and more profitable properties.
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