Most enterprise software is built for people sitting at a desk. Elephant Company, a Berlin-based startup, is building for everyone else, specifically the more than 70% of the global workforce made up of deskless workers. That is the problem the company has been solving since 2022, and now it has the capital to push harder.
Elephant has closed a funding round of over €5 million, led by EnBW New Ventures and Wepa, with participation from business angels connected to Flix, home24 SE, SB21, Ventic Ventures, and topi. The capital goes toward team growth and platform development.
AI that Builds Courses:
Elephant is an end-to-end training and communication platform built for frontline teams. It includes a Field App, an AI assistant, an AI Coursebuilder, and the Elephant Hub, which helps organizations manage content, knowledge, teams, and learners.
The platform supports workers across their full lifecycle, from onboarding through active field operations, and runs in over 95 languages. That multilingual support matters for manufacturing, logistics, and retail companies operating across different regions with diverse workforces.
Turning Documents into Training:
One of the more practical features Elephant offers is how it handles existing company knowledge. In many organizations, knowledge is fragmented, outdated, or passed on only verbally. Elephant directly addresses this by converting internal documentation into usable training content.
Its AI Coursebuilder converts technical documentation into gamified, mobile-friendly microlearning modules. For operators who have been storing process knowledge in PDFs that nobody reads, this is a concrete workflow improvement. Teams can build structured training from existing materials without starting from scratch.
Who Built Elephant Company:
Elephant was founded by Niklas Dehio, Maurice Zomorrodi, and Melchior Schramm. The three co-founders came out of TU Berlin, where the company received an EXIST founder scholarship in 2022, a federal grant program in Germany that supports university-based startups. Building a workforce training product from an engineering and management background, with early support from a technical university, tracks well with the platform-heavy approach Elephant has taken.
Investors:
As Pascal Beckers-Jaleta, Principal at EnBW New Ventures, put it, “Elephant addresses one of the core challenges of modern organisations: knowledge loss at a time of rising efficiency pressure. With deeply embedded AI agents, learning becomes process-near, personalised, and available right at the point of need.” That framing from a lead investor explains the thesis clearly: this is not a generic HRTech bet, it is a bet on closing the knowledge gap in physical operations.
EnBW New Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of EnBW based in Karlsruhe, typically invests between €1 and €10 million across several funding rounds, backing European startups that make infrastructure more digital and sustainable. The presence of angels from logistics and consumer companies like Flix and home24 adds sector-specific weight. These are operators who understand what frontline teams actually need day to day.
The Platform in Practice:
Elephant’s mobile app integrates training directly into daily workflows, and the AI assistant provides context-aware answers in the field. Workers do not need to step away from their tasks to access guidance. The gamified microlearning format is designed for knowledge retention and fits into schedules without requiring dedicated training blocks.
For companies managing large operational teams, the value proposition is straightforward: faster onboarding, consistent process implementation, and a reduction in costly errors from undertrained staff. Operators looking at deskless workforce upskilling tools will find Elephant’s approach directly relevant to how frontline worker training is being rebuilt with AI in 2026.
