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.
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.
Iris Capital has invested in over 20 countries (of which 18 in Europe) 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, with its global footprint helping portfolio companies develop internationally. 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 has offices in Paris, Düsseldorf, Montreal, San Francisco, Beijing, Tokyo, Riyadh and Dubai.
Among Iris Capital's recent portfolio companies are the following:
Adjust – Germany: Attribution and analytics for apps
Adomik – France: Yield management of programmatic ad inventory
AdotMob – France: France: Mobile ad programmatic platform
Getsafe – Germany: App that lets you manage all your insurance in your smartphone
Hola – Israel: Video CDN with mid-stream switching
iAdvize – France: Conversational commerce platform
Kyriba – France/USA: treasury solutions in the cloud
Lookout – USA: mobile security
Mailjet – France : Cloud emailing platform
Marco Vasco – France: Online travel agent offering tailor-made holidays and tours
Netatmo – France: Internet of things for home
PlaceIQ – USA: Location intelligence services
Quantifind – USA: On-demand insights platform that drives revenues
ReBuy – Germany: Online buying and selling of second hand hig tech products
Scality – France/USA: Large-scale storage management and infrastructure software
Searchmetrics – Germany: Advanced SEO software
Shift Technology – France: Fraud detection software in insurance
Studitemps – Germany: Specialized in placing qualified student as temp workers
Talend – France/USA: Global leader in open source integration
Yodo1 – China: Mobile gaming publisher: Global leader in open source integration
Here are some past portfolio companies Iris Capital has backed:
Instant Luxe – France (acquired by Galerie Lafayette)
ProWebCE – France (acquired by Edenred)
Mister Auto – France (acquired by PSA Peugeot Citroën)
MoPub – France (acquired by Twitter)
Alphanim – France (acquired by Gaumont)
Cirpack – France (acquired by Thomson/Technicolor)
Computec – Germany (acquired by Marquard Media)
Erenis – France (acquired by Neuf Cegetel/SFR)
FastBooking – France (acquired by 3i and EDRIP)
Human Inference – Pays-Bas (acquired by Neopost)
Kiala – Belgique (acquired by UPS)
Let It Wave – France (acquired by Zoran)
QSC – Allemagne (listed on TecDAX)
OpenTrust – France (acquired by Keynectis)
Phone.com – USA (listed on NASDAQ - now Openwave)
Store Electronic System – France (acquired by LBO France)
Vox Mobili – France (acquired by On Mobile)
Wavecom – France (listed on NASDAQ and Euronext, acquired by Sierra Wireless)
Zantas – USA (acquired by Autonomy)
