Peter Xu

Co-founder Elysium
Nikolai Oreshkin
Founder Elysium
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Helping the innovators
of today push the frontiers of tomorrow
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Elysium is based in Silicon Valley, but our reach extends across the globe. Regardless of where you come from, we welcome your ideas and are always open to hearing what you have to say.

Elysium was founded with the idea that a single team can help bring innovators from North America, Asia, and Europe together to provide them with our global expertise and our access to international markets.
— Business Development
— International Markets
— Deal Structuring
— Strategy

— Recruiting

— Product Marketing
440 N Wolfe Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Consumer Tech
Blockchain
SaaS
FinTech
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Tech
Blockchain
SaaS
FinTech
Artificial Intelligence
How we can help
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We help our founders in recruiting talented engineers through our partners and corporations in the Elysium Network.
Engineering
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Media and Marketing
Elysium supports the marketing and public relations needs of its portfolio through its own media subsidiary.
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Global Expansion
We specialize in helping companies find opportunities for international growth by leveraging Elysium’s corporate partners.
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Business Development
We help you recruit your first sales and business development.
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Growth-Stage Investments
We offer avenues of growth and help with fund-raising, especially during the transition between early and late stages.
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Early-Stage Investments
Elysium provides the first check to many early-stage companies.
Our Startups
We help founders chase their dreams every step of the way.
Wire
Wire is the most secure collaboration platform. We are transforming the way business’ communicate in the same way and speed that our founders disrupted telephony with Skype.

Flo
Flo is the first AI-powered tracker for periods and ovulation, offering up to 50% more accurate cycle predictions than traditional methods. It provides personalized insights for women with irregular periods, improving reliability and health monitoring
Node
Data is the lifeblood of every business, but the sheer amount of information at our fingertips has made it difficult to know what to trust and how to use it effectively.
Benepass
Benepass is a fintech platform that provides benefits cards for startups and small and medium-sized businesses.The platform helps consumers to set the wellness policy in alignment with corporate values, distributes the funds via prepaid debit cards, learn what employees care about via tracked spending, and connect seamlessly to payroll and accounting software for tax compliance.
Yearend.
YearEnd operates as a subscription tax platform designed for startup employees’ needs. It helps to optimize their equity and taxes in real-time. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Nugget
Nugget is an online platform for short-form audio.
It was founded in 2019 by Craig Cannon and Patrick Piemonte.
Fly.io
Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company’s application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct their visitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks.
Trustle
Trustle is a mobile and web-based application platform that specializes in providing guides for parenting. Its platform allows its users to connect to an expert who’ll get to know their family via video call and chat and provides solution for the user’s concern.
Earncheese
The Cheese Debit Card is a card aimed at international students. It doesn’t require a social security number and it also offers a cashback program and a interesting APY. Most banks and credit card issuers require a SSN. The Cheese debit card is the first of its kind in that it allows international students and non-citizens to easily sign up for a no-fee debit card that also comes with some good benefits.
FiscalNote
FiscalNote is a privately held software, data, and media company headquartered in Washington, D.C. The company was founded by Timothy Hwang, Gerald Yao, and Jonathan Chen in 2013. FiscalNote provides software tools and platforms, data services, and news through the FiscalNote Government Relationship Management (GRM) service.
GoodWork
GoodWork is first launching in Manila before expanding to the rest of SEA. GoodWork utilizes a pure marketplace model, and also employs its own curated, trained, and vetted workforce for many of its tasks. Using GoodWork’s platform (app or website), customers can hire skilled professionals across a wide range of services (cleaners, repairmen, laundry, plumbing, carpentry, etc.)
Loóna
Loóna is a unique combination of intriguing visuals, auditory ambiance, and touch interaction that constructs a dreamy nighttime environment of security and calm. Reminiscent of your childhood storytime, Loóna creates the ideal conditions for a night of deep and peaceful slumber.
Anchorage
Anchorage was founded on the belief that technical problems require technical solutions. To help financial institutions invest securely in digital assets, we are building the first crypto-native custodian.
Prisma
Prisma is a photo-editing app that creates amazing effects, transforming photos into paintings.Prisma uses artificial neural networks that enable users to make photos appear like they were painted by Picasso, Munch, or even Salvador Dali.
Telegram
Telegram started with a simple idea—for people to express freely. It is one of the world’s largest and most innovative messaging platforms, which aims to make more accessible the ability for the world’s population to access and trade digital currencies, as well as to provide a large-scale practical implementation of blockchain technology.
Acquired.io
Acquired.io is a multichannel user-acquisition campaign management system that utilizes automation to simplify day-to-day marketing tasks, such as ad operation, budget allocation, and even cutting losses. It was acquired by Adjust, the industry leader in mobile marketing measurement and fraud prevention, in December 2018.
Capture.io
Capture.io is a next-generation social discovery app that utilizes AI and machine learning to help users find digital communities. It allows users to simply snap a picture of something of interest and connects them with other like-minded individuals.
Alpaca
Alpaca helps renters and landlords through the process of renting apartments by making it easy, convenient, and trustworthy. Alpaca’s algorithms and tools approve / decline users within minutes after automated spammer screening, ensure posts and comments are relevant to the community and automate posting of listings from their business partners.
Knack
Knack is the fastest growing peer tutoring platform which focuses on Student Skill Development & Workforce readiness for college students. The founders have been building Peer to Peer learning communities on college campuses across the country. They believe that peer tutoring interactions serve as the most effective means of personal and professional development.
Meet our team
Our partners aim to make the fund the premier destination for visionary founders to be connected with industry leaders.
  • Peter Xu
    Managing Partner

    Peter’s investment focus is primarily on consumer applications and artificial intelligence. He also helps with fundraising for Elysium. Prior to joining Elysium, Peter was the youngest team member of the first hedge fund founded by a team of senior managers sent by George Soros to Asia. The global macro hedge fund makes investments predominantly in foreign exchange markets.
  • Nikolai Oreshkin
    Managing Partner

    Nikolai’s investment interests and entrepreneurial experience are in FinTech, Blockchain, Deep Learning, and Mobile start-ups. Over the last seven years, Nikolai Oreshkin has been involved in over fifty cross-border and venture transactions, including cross-border and mergers/acquisitions valued at more than USD $2.5 billion.
  • Eric Ly
    Venture Partner

    Eric co-founded LinkedIn with several other Stanford colleagues, serving as its founding Chief Technology Officer. LinkedIn became the world’s largest professional network with more than 500 million users.
    He is passionate about combining innovative products, technologies and business models to create highly successful companies.
  • Eugene Nevgen
    Entrepreneur-in-Residence

    Eugene was a co-founder of MSQRD, which was acquired by Facebook in 2016.
    Previously, Eugene held the leading role in product and growth at Facebook. Currently, he is the Investor & Board Director at Flo Health.

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