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 appsAdomik – France: Yield management of programmatic ad inventoryAdotMob – France: France: Mobile ad programmatic platformGetsafe – Germany: App that lets you manage all your insurance in your smartphoneHola – Israel: Video CDN with mid-stream switchingiAdvize – France: Conversational commerce platformKyriba – France/USA: treasury solutions in the cloudLookout – USA: mobile securityMailjet – France : Cloud emailing platformMarco Vasco – France: Online travel agent offering tailor-made holidays and toursNetatmo – France: Internet of things for homePlaceIQ – USA: Location intelligence servicesQuantifind – USA: On-demand insights platform that drives revenuesReBuy – Germany: Online buying and selling of second hand hig tech productsScality – France/USA: Large-scale storage management and infrastructure softwareSearchmetrics – Germany: Advanced SEO softwareShift Technology – France: Fraud detection software in insuranceStuditemps – Germany: Specialized in placing qualified student as temp workersTalend – France/USA: Global leader in open source integrationYodo1 – China: Mobile gaming publisher: Global leader in open source integrationHere 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)