# Elysium Venture Capital

> Elysium Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Software. See 63 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 63
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elysiumvc
- Website: http://ely.vc

Elysium Venture Capital is an investment management group focused on global technology opportunities. Utilizing a wide range of industry experience, the firm seeks partnerships with exceptional management teams to commercialize innovative technologies, accelerate growth and create long term value across the world.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$10M |
| Series A | $6M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 16% |
| Apps | 8 | 13% |
| FinTech | 8 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 8 | 13% |

110 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 23 | 37% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 19% |
| Series A | 5 | 8% |
| Series B | 4 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 5% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 32 | 51% |
| Singapore | 3 | 5% |
| South Korea | 3 | 5% |
| Mexico | 2 | 3% |
| Germany | 2 | 3% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nikolai Oreshkin | Founder & Managing Partner | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nikolai-oreshkin |
| Peter Xu | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-xu |
| Roman Sobachevskiy | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roman-sobachevskiy |
| Murli Ramkrishnan | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/murli-ramkrishnan |
| Vadim Romanov | Venture Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vadim-romanov |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anthropic | Anthropic conducts AI research and develops AI products, including the Claude AI model family. The company focuses on building AI for human well-being, emphasizing safety in its research, policy work, and product design. Anthropic offers various Claude models, such as Opus and Sonnet, for AI-powered applications and custom experiences, supportingcoding and AI agents. | $452.3M | Secondary Market | May 31, 2024 |  |
| Spice AI | Spice AI is creating technology to make artificial intelligence and machine learning more accessible to developers. Building intelligent apps that leverage AI is still way too hard, even for advanced developers. Spice AI's mission is to make this as easy as creating a modern web page. This mission is in service of our vision to makequality-of-life improving AI accessible to all.Founded in June 2021, Spice AI, Inc. is a Seattle, Washington headquartered technology startup building developer-focused AI. Spice AI was founded by ex-Microsoft and GitHub engineers, with over 20 years of combined experience in distributed and cloud computing. | $13.5M | Seed | Sep 07, 2022 |  |
| Betr | Betr is a direct-to-consumer micro-betting that introduces instant gratification to sports betting. It provides tools to support responsible play and give control over their gambling. It encourages them to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within their personal limits. Betr was founded in 2022 and is based in Miami, Florida. | $20M | Series A | Aug 08, 2022 |  |
| EWA Learn | Ewa learn English is an innovative method of learning a language. EWA started only in 2017 and skyrocketed to the very top charts in the Apple store and Google play surpassing well funded and long ago established competitors. The success of EWA based on combining fun, deep motivation, and unique learning techniques. The platform now has iOS,Android, and Web versions with more than 40 million users globally . | $2.7M |  | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| EWA Learn | Ewa learn English is an innovative method of learning a language. EWA started only in 2017 and skyrocketed to the very top charts in the Apple store and Google play surpassing well funded and long ago established competitors. The success of EWA based on combining fun, deep motivation, and unique learning techniques. The platform now has iOS,Android, and Web versions with more than 40 million users globally . | $2.7M | Seed | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| Betr | Betr is a direct-to-consumer micro-betting that introduces instant gratification to sports betting. It provides tools to support responsible play and give control over their gambling. It encourages them to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within their personal limits. Betr was founded in 2022 and is based in Miami, Florida. | $30M | Series A | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Gear Technologies. | Gear is the most advanced L2 smart contracts, allowing for anyone to launch any dApp on Polkadot. | $12M | Series A | Dec 25, 2021 |  |
| Allocations | Allocations is a technology company building a private equity & venture capital economy that is open to all, enabling more financial inclusion for every person and business. Allocations has raised in excess of $7m from over 200 investors as of August 2021 including Irish Angels, Vitalize VC, Allocations Angels, LFG Ventures, Browder Capital,TVC, Jamie Rogozinski, Joey Krug, Bruce Menin and Russell Galbut. To date Allocations has powered over 300 private funds, totaling approximately $250m in volume. |  |  | Dec 16, 2021 |  |
| Fireside | Fireside is the next evolution of Storytelling. It is where the world's greatest creators go to bring the audience into the story through live, interactive, virtual shows. Co-founded by Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi, Fireside gives creators the unprecedented power to distribute shows everywhere with the click of a button, understand what theiraudiences want more of with sophisticated analytics and connect with those audiences in real time. The next media empires are emerging on Fireside...all through the power of Story. | $10M | Seed | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Narrative BI | Narrative BI is a no-code augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically turns raw data into actionable narratives. Narrative BI seamlessly and effortlessly integrates with existing data sources, such as marketing, CRM, product analytics tools, and automatically detects anomalies and correlations in the company data. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 12, 2021 |  |

10 of 63 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
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- [Geek Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geek-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Elysium Venture Capital invest in?

Elysium Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 63 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Elysium Venture Capital's check size?

Elysium Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $650k–$10M at Seed and $6M–$30M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Elysium Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Elysium Venture Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Elysium Venture Capital?

The team at Elysium Venture Capital includes Nikolai Oreshkin (Founder & Managing Partner), Peter Xu (Partner) and Roman Sobachevskiy (Investor), among 6 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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