# Alain Caffi

> Alain Caffi is a Series B investor at Ventech backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ventech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ventech-capital)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alain-caffi-1ab51112
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CaffiAlain
- Website: https://x.com/CaffiAlain

Alain Caffi is a Series B investor at Ventech in Paris focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Alain Caffi is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France, and is the Founding Partner and Senior Advisor of Ventech. Alain previously worked at FSD Capital Développement as a managing director. Alain Caffi attended the Clermont-Ferrand Graduate School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 27% |
| Marketing | 3 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 20% |
| Big Data | 2 | 13% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 40% |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 20% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |
| Series E | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 6 | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| Brazil | 1 | 7% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 7% |
| Russian Federation | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chattermill | Chattermill applies cutting edge deep learning to help organizations make sense of their customer experience. The company uses cutting edge artificial intelligence to analyze customer feedback across customer touchpoints for organizations to harness customer insights at scale, boost customer loyalty and brand advocacy. Their approach is differentin its surgical focus on aspects of the Customer Experience relevant to each client.Chattermill enables our teams to take customer insights deeper than ever before and focus on the key factors that make a difference to our users and drive our growth. They combine machine learning with a deep understanding of a company and its customers, seamlessly integrating with any system used to collect feedback.They started Chattermill in 2015 at Entrepreneur First and have worked with amazing founding members including Nutmeg, HelloFresh, and Moo to build a pioneering platform for delivering amazing customer experience at scale. | $26M | Series B | Dec 05, 2022 |  |
| GOSU Data Lab | GOSU Data Lab is a company focused on gaming data and AI. Using Machine Learning algorithms, GOSU Data Lab builds the platform that applies the computer’s understanding of the gaming data and helps gamers to play better, trains pro gamers, makes gaming companies analytics better. | $2.8M | Series B | Dec 10, 2019 |  |
| Artur'In | Artur'In developed an AI-based platform to help real-estate professionals easily deploy an advanced digital marketing solution. Technology is great, but they wanted to make automation personal with a team of customer success managers: have a chat with us whenever you need! Their dedicated team will set up the perfect strategy to make themost of your social media, blog and lead generation tools. |  | Series A | Jul 10, 2018 |  |
| GOSU Data Lab | GOSU Data Lab is a company focused on gaming data and AI. Using Machine Learning algorithms, GOSU Data Lab builds the platform that applies the computer’s understanding of the gaming data and helps gamers to play better, trains pro gamers, makes gaming companies analytics better. | $1.9M | Series A | Mar 21, 2018 |  |
| The Agent | TheAgent.com revolutionizes digital distribution of fashion brands. Their platform connects hundreds of European designer brands with e-retailers in 30 countries: USA, Australia, UK, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa. |  |  | Feb 27, 2018 |  |
| RecargaPay | RecargaPay is a top Brazilian financial platform serving over 10 million users with an integrated suite of payment, wallet, investments and credit services. Founded in 2010 and authorized as a financial institution by the Central Bank of Brazil, RecargaPay offers an all in one app experience designed to help Brazilians invest, pay, borrow, and earnmoney in a simple and secure way. With over US$ 120 million raised from global investors, RecargaPay leverages technology, scalability, and a relentless focus on customer needs to empower individuals and micro entrepreneurs across the country. | $22M | Series B | Feb 22, 2018 |  |
| Hostmaker | Hostmaker is an award-winning home rental management company, which vision is to unlock the potential of every home through great design, personal service and cutting-edge tech. They're incredibly grateful to the 2,500+ homeowners who trust us to manage their homes. What started as a team of 2, in love with beautiful homes, with traveland with each other, is now a 4 year-old start-up which has created more than 300 jobs. |  | Series B | Nov 07, 2017 |  |
| Hostmaker | Hostmaker is an award-winning home rental management company, which vision is to unlock the potential of every home through great design, personal service and cutting-edge tech. They're incredibly grateful to the 2,500+ homeowners who trust us to manage their homes. What started as a team of 2, in love with beautiful homes, with traveland with each other, is now a 4 year-old start-up which has created more than 300 jobs. |  | Series A | Feb 23, 2017 |  |
| Tellmeplus | Leveraging years of research in the field of artificial intelligence applied to predictive analytics, Tellmeplus is a software vendor specialized in AI applied to big data. The Predictive Objects platform leverages the latest advances in big data & machine learning to provide Automated Embedded Artificial Intelligence. Tellmeplus’ technologyplaces the intelligence where decisions need to be made: in the objects.In order to improve the outcome of business and industrial processes, Predictive Objects deploys artificial intelligence where the data is produced and where decisions need to be made: at the edge of the network and in the objects themselves. The platform leverages machine learning and big data to automate the creation and deployment of predictive models, augmenting human experts for faster and more accurate predictions in customer and asset intelligence. |  |  | Feb 09, 2016 |  |
| Believe | Believe Digital is the leading fully independent digital distributor and label services provider for artists & labels worldwide. They provide dedicated label & international campaign management, trade & digital marketing services, comprehensive video management & distribution, synchronisation, neighbouring rights and run in-houserecord label Believe Recordings. | $60M | Private Equity | Jun 03, 2015 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Runa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/runa-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [XAnge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xange-private-equity) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DSG Consumer Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsg-consumer-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GP Bullhound](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gp-bullhound) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Serena](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/serena-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Ventech

VC Fund · Paris, France

Ventech is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in startup companies. It has a broad investment scope with the capacity to invest in B2B and in B2C, in software and in hardware, with an industry agnostic approach. The firm's primary geographical focuses are, for the European fund, France, DACH region and the Nordics,with offices in Paris, Munich and Helsinki. Ventech China invests in Asia with an office in Shanghai.

5 contacts available at Ventech.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alain Caffi | Founding Partner & Senior Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alain-caffi |
| Claire Houry | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claire-houry |
| Andrew Chen | Associate & Principle | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-chen-13 |
| Audrey Soussan | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/audrey-soussan |
| Charles Fourault | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-fourault |

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## FAQ

### What does Alain Caffi invest in?

Alain Caffi invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Marketing startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alain Caffi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alain Caffi closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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