# Elaia

> Elaia is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 223 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 223
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last fund: Mar 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/elaia-partners
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Elaia_Partners
- Website: http://www.elaia.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/549853365040402

Elaia is a European full stack tech and deep tech investor. We partner with ambitious entrepreneurs from inception to leadership, helping them navigate the future and the unknown. For over twenty years, we have combined deep scientific and technological expertise with decades of operational experience to back those building tomorrow. Our jointventure with Lazard, Lazard Elaia Capital, enables us to support exceptional founders at any stage. From our offices in Paris, Barcelona and Tel Aviv, we have been active partners with over 100 startups including Criteo, Mirakl, Shift Technology, AQEMIA and Alice & Bob.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$9.9M |
| Series A | $2.2M–$26M |
| Series B | $4.2M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 49 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 38 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 24 | 11% |
| Health Care | 18 | 8% |
| SaaS | 17 | 8% |

169 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 62 | 28% |
| Series A | 57 | 26% |
| Series B | 26 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 16 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 5% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 94 | 42% |
| United States | 15 | 7% |
| Spain | 10 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 2% |
| Belgium | 3 | 1% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Louisa Mesnard | CMO & Head of Sustainability | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louisa-mesnard |
| Philippe Gire | Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philippe-gire |
| Sofia Dahoune | Investment Manager | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sofia-dahoune |
| Anne-Sophie Carrese | Managing Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anne-sophie-carr%C3%A8se |
| Céline Passedouet | Investment Director | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c%C3%A9line-passedouet |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aylight | Aylight develops semiconductor laser and photonics platforms designed to improve optical connectivity in AI datacenters and related infrastructure. The company focuses on frequency modulated comb laser technology that generates multiple stable wavelengths from a single InP-based laser cavity. Its architecture produces an equidistant, RF-lockedwavelength grid that aligns with dense wavelength-division multiplexing requirements and reduces control complexity and power consumption. Aylight targets use cases in AI datacenter interconnects, quantum computing hardware, precision metrology, and communication equipment. Its products aim to integrate with terabit optical links and wavelength-division multiplexing systems while remaining compatible with existing fabrication processes. | $5.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| MyC | MyC is a workforce health platform that unifies employee health data and automates compliance across organizations. The platform emphasizes the transition from traditional medical systems to digital solutions, enhancing operational efficiency and data management for medical centers. MyC facilitates the integration of medical equipment and deviceswith digital medical records to ensure automated and seamless data flow. | $11.8M | Series A | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Linkup | Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly. | $10M | Seed | Feb 02, 2026 |  |
| Aviwell | Aviwell’s mission is to develop healthy, native, natural, and sustainable solutions to improve animal health and growth to better nourish the planet ... At a fraction of the cost. | $12.9M | Series A | Jan 23, 2026 |  |
| Enodia Therapeutics | Enodia Therapeutics is a biotech company that provides transforming treatments for cancer, inflammation, and viral infection diseases. | $24.2M | Seed | Jan 08, 2026 |  |
| Sim&Cure | Sim&Cure is the first company to be cleared to market a patient-based simulation model for aneurysm treatment that allows prediction of the deployment of medical devices (flow diverter, intrasaccular device, laser-cuter stent). Sim&Size® simulates each size and type of device according to the patient’s unique anatomy in order to provideessential information prior to the choice of sizing. | $11.6M | Series A | Nov 28, 2025 |  |
| NcodiN | NcodiN develops nanophotonic chips for data transport for processors that improves speed, energy efficiency and heating of the circuit | $18.5M | Seed | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| GetVocal AI | GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent. | $26M | Series A | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Hummink | Hummink develops additive manufacturing technology designed to provide tools to design and manufacture at the nanoscale.It uses a patented technology that combines a nanometric pen with an oscillating microresonator to perform a capillary deposition of various liquids, thereby providing semiconductor molecular diagnostic industries with the toolsto build large objects with the same resolution and precision on millimetric to centimetric substrates.Amin M'barki, Pascal Boncenne, Lydéric Bocquet, Alessandro Siria, Antoine Nigues established the company in Paris, Île-de-France in 2020. | $17.4M | Series A | Nov 17, 2025 |  |
| mimic | mimic provides a flexible and intuitive answer to labor shortages worldwide, by building and deploying robots that fit seamlessly into human workplaces. Their scalable foundation AI model enables truly dexterous robotic manipulation by learning directly from human data. | $16M | Seed | Nov 03, 2025 |  |

10 of 223 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Elaia invest in?

Elaia invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 223 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Elaia's check size?

Elaia typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$9.9M at Seed, $2.2M–$26M at Series A and $4.2M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Elaia participates in.

### How do I contact Elaia?

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### Who are the partners at Elaia?

The team at Elaia includes Louisa Mesnard (CMO & Head of Sustainability), Philippe Gire (Partner) and Sofia Dahoune (Investment Manager), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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