Héloïse Rozès talks Corma’s €3.5 million seed round

Managing unruly tech stacks is a growing pain point for many revenue organizations. A recent poll from Morning Brew Insights says it all, with 71% of participants identifying too many systems not talking to each other as a major challenge, and 35% saying their tools don’t match how people actually work. This isn’t great news if you’re planning on leaping into an AI-driven future without first conducting some kind of audit of your existing systems. Downstream of this is the enduring ROI debate, which will surely follow us long into 2026.

Since launching in 2023, Paris-based software management platform Corma (which refers to itself as the SaaS of SaaS) has aimed to ameliorate the downsides of the SaaS boom by bringing various applications and softwares under one umbrella. According to Corma, the average company tech stack has grown from eight apps in 2015, to 112 in 2023.

The company has just raised €3.5 million in its second round of funding, in a bid to expand its mission. When the company launched, it secured €650,000 in funding.

Revenue Brew sat down with co-founder and CEO Héloïse Rozès to discuss Corma’s mission and how the €3.5 million will be used to expand go-to-market efforts in the US.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

What is Corma’s point of difference in the IT space?

If you look on the market side, you have a type of a market that’s called software asset management…On the other side of the market, you have identity access management. Today, these two different markets have tools that are solutions provided for IT personas to buy. We believe that [for] midsize market companies, it doesn’t make sense to have two different tools to provide governance of your software. They should be united together to give you a wholesome overview that drives very granular and contextualized analytics for very driven and to the point actions taken on your software governance. We are the reconciliation of these two markets together in one platform.

How will Corma be using its €3.5 million seed round?

First, to recruit senior developers to help us develop the multiagency vision of Corma to provide, at all stages possible, automated zero-touch workflows and use cases for license governance, which include, but are not limited to, provisioning access reviews, access requests, security, compliance benchmarking, and finance. The second thing is go-to-market expansion. Today we are in several countries in Europe. We [are starting] to get clients from the United States, which is very exciting.

Why does Corma want to be in the US market?

They started coming in before we went there. It was quite funny. Basically, we received inbound deals from Texas last year, and it was like: ‘What is going on?’ They found us online and we discovered that we already knew that the US, it’s a large market, a lot more mature than the European market on our topic, and it’s a matter of moments before you get there. So I wouldn’t say we are not right now in the US market, but we are developing strategic partnerships there to understand it better.

Are there particular industries that you have clients in or is it more broad?

We have around 200 companies [using] the product. We started with scale-ups of 300 to 1,000 people. These scale-ups are in various industries, but mostly building other softwares. We’re really good in that space, which is those software scale-ups. The second one will be tech-enabled services such as consulting.

What are your goals with this new investment?

There are these crazy acronyms that are happening in the IT market, and they are basically an international norm that will help you respect specific standards to make sure that you stay in business. If you don’t respect these standards as an IT person or security person, your company might go out of business. Today, they have increased the level of these norms for access reviews, and it’s really a pain point for midsize market companies, because as regulations increase, the IT teams do not really increase in number or budget. So they need to do more work and it takes more time. We help them resolve that issue.

What are Corma’s plans for 2026?

2026 really is about developing that multiagency system. It’s quite a building phase for us and at the same time that we’re running, our purpose would be to share even more announcements on the product per month. We want to make sure that we understand our customers [better] and that we’re creating a community.

We believe that together, we can make IT a revolution for companies to accelerate the way [they] are being built and completely transform the way they use software.