# Paul Degueuse

> Paul Degueuse is a Series B investor at Korelya Capital (Paris) backing Software and E-Commerce. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Korelya Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korelya-capital)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauldegueuse
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/PaulDegueuse

Paul Degueuse is a Series B investor at Korelya Capital in Paris focused on Software and E-Commerce. Paul Degueuse is the Partner at Korelya Capital.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $16M–$70M |
| Series C | $57M–$109M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 18% |
| SaaS | 2 | 12% |
| FinTech | 2 | 12% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 7 | 41% |
| Series C | 4 | 24% |
| Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Series G | 1 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 9 | 53% |
| Poland | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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. | $30M | Series B | Nov 16, 2023 |  |
| Ledger | Ledger develops security and infrastructure solutions for cryptocurrencies as well as blockchain applications for individuals and companies, by leveraging a distinctive, proprietary technology.Launched in 2014, Ledger has designed an acclaimed line of hardware security devices quickly placing the company as a global leader on the market with1,000,000 units sold in more than 165 countries. For enterprises and corporations, Ledger introduced the Vault: a fully managed SaaS solution addressing the need to safeguard a very large amount of multiple cryptocurrencies while mitigating both IT and physical assault threats. The company is also active in the industrial IoT market, leveraging its secure hardware technology to interface sensors and machines to smart contracts or blockchain-based assets.Ledger is headquartered in Paris, has a production facility in Vierzon (France), and offices in San Francisco. | $109M | Series C | Mar 30, 2023 |  |
| Ramp Network | Ramp connects blockchain with banks using open banking APIs. The company's mission is to create a meshed, easily accessible connection between the open blockchain financial system and the old, closed banking system, with no need for a trusted third party in between.Ramp was founded in 2017 by Przemek Kowalczyk and Szymon Sypniewicz and isheadquartered in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. | $70M | Series B | Nov 09, 2022 |  |
| Vestiaire Collective | Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items.The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future bypromoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day.Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan. | $208M | Series I | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Vestiaire Collective | Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items.The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future bypromoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day.Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan. | $214.5M | Series H | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Chefclub | Chefclub is a cooking channel that shows food videos on television and the Internet. The company is a multicultural team of talent from all around the world, with a passion for cooking. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Paris, France. | $17M | Series B | Jan 25, 2021 |  |
| AB Tasty | AB Tasty offers feature management, experimentation, and personalization solutions, helping businesses launch better products faster and drive more conversions, engagement and revenue on all their digital assets and channels. It provides marketing, product, and technical teams with a comprehensive brand and product experience optimization platform,allowing them to turn website, mobile or application visitors into customers, subscribers or leads while delivering outstanding customer experiences, aligned with business KPIs. | $40M | Series C | Jul 22, 2020 |  |
| Vestiaire Collective | Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items.The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future bypromoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day.Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan. | $64.1M | Series G | Apr 20, 2020 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cathay Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cathay-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Crédit Mutuel Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cm-cic-capital-innovation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Condé Nast](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/condenast) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Eurazeo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eurazeo-com) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kering Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kering-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Korelya Capital

VC Fund · Paris, France

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.

5 contacts available at Korelya Capital.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Degueuse invest in?

Paul Degueuse invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Paul Degueuse's check size?

Paul Degueuse typically joins rounds of $16M–$70M at Series B and $57M–$109M 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 Paul Degueuse participates in.

### When did Paul Degueuse last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Degueuse closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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