# Korelya Capital

> Korelya Capital is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and E-Commerce. See 57 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 57
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Fund size: $234M
- Last fund: Sep 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18419203/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/korelyacapital
- Website: http://www.korelyacapital.com/

Korelya Capital is a VC fund in Paris focused on Software and E-Commerce. With offices in Paris, London, Seoul and Singapore, our mission is to broaden the horizon of European technology by providing leading start-ups with the capital for growth and access to Asian markets.Our strong ties with many leading Asian corporates, together with our network in Asian tech ecosystems offer our portfolio companies much more thanjust capital.Founded in 2016 by Fleur Pellerin, former French Minister for Innovation and Digital Economy, Korelya Capital (a Korelya Groupe company) is an investment platform with over EUR 500 million under management.We back the most ambitious founders in their journey to build global technology champions by sharing our passion, experience and market reach.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.7M–$85M |
| Series B | $16M–$124M |
| Series C | $42M–$250M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 16% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 11% |
| Marketplace | 4 | 7% |
| Mobile Apps | 4 | 7% |

105 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 16 | 28% |
| Series C | 10 | 18% |
| Series A | 4 | 7% |
| Series D | 3 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 5% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 13 | 23% |
| Spain | 4 | 7% |
| Germany | 4 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 5% |
| South Korea | 2 | 4% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Antoine Dresch | Managing Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antoine-dresch |
| Franco Danesi | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/franco-danesi-2 |
| Carole Sappia-Bonetti | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carole-sappia-bonetti |
| Céline Lee | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c%C3%A9line-lee |
| Fleur Pellerin | CEO | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fleur-pellerin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FINN | At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated. | $113.4M | Series D | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| THEKER Robotics | THEKER Robotics is a startup developing intelligent general-purpose robots for sectors such as waste management and logistics. | $85M | Series A | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| DeepIP | DeepIP is an AI-powered tool created by Kili Technology to assist intellectual property practitioners throughout the patent prosecution process. | $25M | Series B | Mar 02, 2026 |  |
| Gradium | Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion. | $70M | Seed | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| Upway | Upway offers an online platform focused on refurbished electric bicycles, providing consumers with access to inspected, repaired, and certified e-bikes from a variety of categories, including city, cargo, mountain, and folding models. The company acquires used or excess bikes from individuals, retailers, and fleets, performs comprehensivemechanical and electrical reconditioning, and then resells the bikes with a one-year warranty and delivery service. Upway also offers a trade-in option for owners looking to sell their e-bike, and supplies accessories like locks, lights, and bags to complement the purchase. The business emphasizes sustainable mobility by extending the life of existing e-bikes and delivering them at a lower cost than typical new bike retail. | $60M | Series C | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| Rebellions | AI chip architects are often inattentive to advanced deep learning features and requirements because they believe software stacks between their silicon and algorithms can provide effective abstract layers. We disagree. We do not think such naively designed chips can efficiently utilize expensive custom silicon resources. The more native hardwaresupports are enabled, the higher performance is achieved.Rebellions Inc is building genuine AI accelerators by bi-directionally bridging the gap between underlying silicon architectures and deep learning algorithms. We push algorithm boundaries to better exploit silicon budgets, while re-architecting AI processors to incorporate sophisticated deep learning features through silicon-dedicated DL kernels.Our goal is to deliver a domain-specific AI processor along with its optimized software. This approach, together with our unique decentralized programming model, will enable customers to arm with the most powerful yet energy-efficient AI hardware as well as seamless integration. | $250M | Series C | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Hokodo | Hokodo is a pan-European provider of B2B Buy Now, Pay Later solutions enabling businesses to buy, sell and do more. The company's easy-to-integrate digital platform streamlines the entire order-to-cash process, allowing merchants to make credit decisions in real-time, be protected against bad debt, and get access to working capital financeoptions.Hokodo was founded in 2018 and is based in London, England. | $11.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Devialet | Devialet is an audio tech company that offers solutions ranging from ADH intelligence to sound amplification. The company's mission is to make Devialet audio technology universal. It has developed a pair of wireless earbuds called Gemini. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Paris, Ile-de-France. | $31.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 27, 2024 |  |
| Devialet | Devialet is an audio tech company that offers solutions ranging from ADH intelligence to sound amplification. The company's mission is to make Devialet audio technology universal. It has developed a pair of wireless earbuds called Gemini. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Paris, Ile-de-France. | $31.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 27, 2024 |  |
| Grover | Grover is a platform that enables users to subscribe to tech products monthly instead of buying them.The product-as-a-service company gives the freedom of renting by bringing the access economy to the consumer electronics market and offering a simple, monthly subscription model for the best in tech. It allows private customers, as well asbusinesses, to get access to a wide assortment of over 1500 tech products such as smartphones, laptops, virtual reality (VR) gear, and wearables profiting from the flexibility and full usage rights at a fraction of the purchase price.Michael Cassau established Grover in Berlin, Berlin, Germany in 2015. | $54.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 18, 2024 |  |

10 of 57 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Korelya Capital invest in?

Korelya Capital invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 57 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Korelya Capital's check size?

Korelya Capital typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$85M at Series A, $16M–$124M at Series B and $42M–$250M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Korelya Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Korelya Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Korelya Capital?

The team at Korelya Capital includes Antoine Dresch (Managing Partner), Franco Danesi (Partner) and Carole Sappia-Bonetti (CFO), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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