Iris Capital
Iris Capital is a venture capital firm, specialized in the digital economy, primarily active in Europe. Since its creation, the Iris Capital team has invested more than a billion Euros in over 230 innovative companies. Iris Capital is sponsored by Orange and Publicis since 2012.
Overview
Created in 1986, within the Caisse des Dépôts, the team was spun off in 2003 and became Iris Capital. Investing internationally since 1991, Iris Capital has always held a sector-specific strategy covering media, telecommunications, information technology and Internet services, which have converged into today's digital economy.
In 2012, Iris Capital entered into a partnership with Orange and Publicis who chose it as manager of their joint multi-corporate venture fund initiative dedicated to the digital economy. In 2017, the multi-corporate venture fund extended its model and welcomed new partners, BRED/Banque Populaire and Valeo, joined in 2019 by Bridgestone.
Geographical reach
Iris Capital has invested in over 20 countries and is mainly active in continental Europe, with a core activity in France, Germany, Benelux and Switzerland. Iris Capital acts as lead investor or in some circumstances as value-added co-investor. Moreover, Iris Capital in the Middle East is the fund manager of STC Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Saudi Arabian telecom operator, STC. Iris Capital is based in Paris and has offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Munich, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and Dubai.
Portfolio
Current Portfolio
Among Iris Capital's recent portfolio companies are the following:Adjust – Germany: Attribution and analytics for appsAdomik – France: Yield management of programmatic ad inventoryGetsafe – Germany: App to manage insurance on smartphonesiAdvize – France: Conversational commerce platformKyriba – France/US: treasury solutions in the cloudLookout – US: mobile securityPlaceIQ – US: Location intelligence servicesQuantifind – USReBuy – Germany: Online commerceScality – France/US: Storage management and infrastructure softwareSearchmetrics – Germany: SEO softwareSecret Double Octopus – Israel: Password-free authenticationShift Technology – France: Fraud detection software in insuranceStuditemps – Germany: Temp workersYodo1 – China
Past portfolio companies Iris Capital has backed:Instant Luxe – France ProWebCE – France Mister Auto – France MoPub – France Alphanim – France Cirpack – France Careem – Dubai Cobi – Germany Computec – Germany Erenis – France FastBooking – France Gengo – France Human Inference – Pays-Bas Instant Luxe – France Kiala – Belgium Let It Wave – France Mailjet – France Marco Vasco – France Mister-auto – France Mopub – US Netatmo – France Oodrive – France OpenTrust – France Phone.com – US QSC – Germany Store Electronic System – France Talend – France Vox Mobili – France Wavecom – France Zantaz – US