Iris Capital

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.