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Elsa Invest

Curslacker Deich 153a, Hamburg, 21039, Germany

Overview

ELSA Capital is an early-stage venture firm that invests in startups at the intersection of fintech and artificial intelligence. The firm leverages extensive industry expertise to assist visionary founders in scaling their businesses.

Total investments
2
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
1

Sector focus

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • FinTech
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Investment portfolio

  • Dealops

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

    Dealops builds pricing and quoting infrastructure for modern revenue and enterprise sales teams, with a focus on usage-based, hybrid, and outcome-driven pricing models. Its product lets revenue teams ship pricing strategies fast, test what works, and scale directly in the deal cycle without engineering tickets or broken workflows. Customers such as Plaid and Airwallex use Dealops to scale usage-based pricing, give sales reps real-time guidance, and drive pricing discipline. The company says it has processed over $1 billion in revenue and reports outcomes including 10x faster quoting, 30% lifts in average contract size, and millions in incremental revenue. Dealops plans to use new funding to scale the team, deepen the product roadmap, and expand adoption among AI and enterprise software companies. The company is based in San Francisco and is led by CEO and founder Spyri Karasavva.

  • Relio

    Participated · Seed · Jan 2023

    Relio is a Zurich-based fintech led by CEO Lav Odorovic that is developing a digital payment account for business customers. Its core product is built on an automated anti-money-laundering (AML) tech stack designed to perform compliance checks and reduce human error. The platform aims to speed up customer onboarding and avoid account freezes caused by manual due diligence. Relio positions itself to leverage Switzerland’s strict regulatory environment and reputation for financial efficiency to minimize money‑laundering risk. The company intends to use the recent funding to support the launch of its business payment account offering. Relio is led by Odorovic, who previously founded neobank Penta, which was later acquired by Qonto. Relio offers a compliance-first digital business account that aims to provide Swiss IBANs quickly and with fewer bureaucratic interactions for small and medium-sized enterprises, including complex corporate structures. The company positions compliance as its core competency with the promise of 'compliance without complications'. Founder and CEO Lav Odorovic, an HSG alumnus, previously led Penta, a German digital bank for freelancers and small businesses. Relio assembled an interdisciplinary team across banking, compliance and technology and participated in the F10 accelerator program of the Swiss exchange. The startup is pursuing an independent Fintech license from FINMA to realise its concept autonomously. Investor discussions for a forthcoming seed financing are already underway.

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