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Iris Capital

Founders Antoine Garrigues Pierre de Fouquet

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Total investments 142
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 94
Rounds per year 3.74
Lead investments 42
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 28
Key employees 12
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Mobile
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
Summary

Iris Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1986. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Paris. The company was established in Europe in France.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Iris Capital works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund was created by Antoine Garrigues, Pierre de Fouquet. The overall number of key employees were 12.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Adjust, Scality, PlaceIQ. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Internet.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Iris Capital, startups are often financed by eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, Wilco, Upfront Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Elaia, Galileo Partners, Accel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bpifrance, Idinvest Partners, Harbert European Growth Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

WeeFin

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
$8M28 Nov 2023 Neuilly-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, France

DGG

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
E-Commerce
SaaS
Software
Virtual Reality
$4M20 Jul 2023 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Escape

Cyber Security
Developer Tools
SaaS
Software
$4M06 Jun 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Kovalee

Apps
Consumer
Internet
Publishing
$9M15 Mar 2023 Fontenay-aux-roses, Ile-de-France, France

Cohort

Blockchain
$3M01 Feb 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Helu.io

Financial Services
$11M27 Jul 2022 Vienna, Austria

Spinergie

Advertising
Oil and Gas
$12M28 Jun 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

ArangoDB

Big Data
Database
Enterprise Software
Open Source
Software
$27M06 Oct 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Workpath

Information Technology
SaaS
$12M09 Sep 2021 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
News
Decision Automation Company Shift Technology Raises $220 Million

– Shift Technology is a SaaS provider of AI-driven decision automation and optimization solutions for the global insurance industry.
– The company closed a $220m Series D round of funding.
– The round was led by Advent International, through Advent Tech with participation from Avenir and others.
– Previous Series C participants Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Iris Capital also joined the round.
– The funding will fuel the company’s execution of its vision to revolutionize the policyholder experience through wide-ranging products that apply AI and advanced data science to key insurance processes.

Virtuo Raises $96M in Series C Funding

– Virtuo, a Paris, France based provider of car-on-demand solutions, raised €50m ($60m) in a Series C funding.
– The round was led by AXA Venture Partners with participation from Bpifrance, Alpha Intelligence Capital and H14, as well as existing investors Balderton Capital, Iris Capital and Raise Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its presence in Europe with plans to conquer one million active customers across the continent by 2025.

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Total investments 142
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 3.74
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 42
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 28
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

WeeFin

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
$8M28 Nov 2023 Neuilly-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, France

DGG

3D Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality
E-Commerce
SaaS
Software
Virtual Reality
$4M20 Jul 2023 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Escape

Cyber Security
Developer Tools
SaaS
Software
$4M06 Jun 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Kovalee

Apps
Consumer
Internet
Publishing
$9M15 Mar 2023 Fontenay-aux-roses, Ile-de-France, France

Cohort

Blockchain
$3M01 Feb 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Helu.io

Financial Services
$11M27 Jul 2022 Vienna, Austria

Spinergie

Advertising
Oil and Gas
$12M28 Jun 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

ArangoDB

Big Data
Database
Enterprise Software
Open Source
Software
$27M06 Oct 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Workpath

Information Technology
SaaS
$12M09 Sep 2021 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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