Berlin's Qorelo raises €3 million five months after launch to tackle SAP's 2027 transformation crunch
Berlin-based startup Qorelo, building an AI engine for modern ERP delivery, has raised €3 million in Seed funding just five months after founding. The company aims to address the massive delivery capacity shortage caused by SAP's 2027 migration deadline.
Qorelo, a Berlin-based startup building the AI engine for modern ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) delivery, has raised €3 million ($3.5 million) in a Seed funding round just five months after the company was founded. The round was co-led by HPI Ventures and Caesar Ventures, with participation from 10x Founders, Antler, Adesso Ventures, and Angel Invest.
Qorelo was founded in late 2025 by Nicholas Arman Maxwell Torabi (19), Louis Andrea Schmidlin (24), and Marino Kurtović (28). The company has built an AI intelligence layer which automates and simplifies the upgrade and migration of ERP projects using SAP software.
According to the company, modernising enterprise ERP systems is a complex and costly task. Only 8% of migrations are completed on time, projects extend about 30% beyond their planned duration, and more than 60% go off track in terms of budget, schedule, or quality. In the most extreme cases, failed transformations have cost large corporations hundreds of millions of euros before they were abandoned.
This challenge is being exacerbated by SAP issuing a strict instruction to all corporate users to migrate to a new modern version (S/4HANA) by 2027. Approximately 35,000 SAP customers are currently undertaking this migration, and because each migration runs between 18 and 36 months, demand for skilled delivery talent is surging through late 2026. The global SAP application services market for S/4HANA transformation and optimisation was valued at €37.8 billion ($44 billion) in 2025 and is projected to reach €60.2 billion ($70 billion) by 2030.
Qorelo claims to address the bottleneck of delivery capacity by automating the functional delivery workstream across ERP programmes, reducing delivery timelines by 45%. The platform acts as a permanent system of record for ERP delivery, turning one-time transformations into continuous optimisation relationships that keep corporate operational data permanently ready for artificial intelligence.
Qorelo caters to consultancies and enterprises. For consultancies, it helps win more contracts, deliver faster, and scale delivery capacity without increasing headcount. For enterprises, it helps reduce reliance on external consultancies and keep SAP expertise in-house. Typical users include solution architects, process owners, functional leads, programme leadership, and SAP Centre of Excellence teams.
The German startup is initially working with corporates across the DACH region facing the SAP transformation crunch. A leading German automotive enterprise is already a live customer, engaging Qorelo for its transformation and expanding into ongoing native operations. Jens Schmidt-Sceery, Partner at HPI Ventures, commented that Qorelo is the AI companion that carries enterprises and their consultants through the transition, turning fragmented discovery and scoping into structured, traceable progress. He noted that the young founding team has won the trust of demanding enterprise customers like Mercedes-Benz.
With this funding, the company plans to scale both growth and product development as Qorelo expands its team to tackle a massive market opportunity. The company is onboarding top-tier European talent, expanding from enterprise sales capabilities to deep technical knowledge on the SAP side.
