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IRIS

Venture Capital · Founded 1986 · Paris, France

#17 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 1% in France

Early stage & growth VC backing software-driven companies across Europe

108 Portfolio companies+18% in 5 years
12 Unicorns
163 Investments
Jul 2026 Last investment
02 · Biggest holdings

IRIS’s biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies IRIS still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for IRIS, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation
  1. 1 FortoUnicorn · Transportation · Germany $2.1B
  2. 2 ExotecUnicorn · Robotics · France $2.0B
  3. 3 StaffbaseUnicorn · Enterprise Software · Germany $1.1B
  4. 4 LookoutUnicorn · Security · USA $1.0B
  5. 5 Shift TechnologyUnicorn · Security · France $1.0B
  6. 6 reBuyConsumer Electronics · Germany $92M
  7. 7 jobvalleyJobs Recruitment · Germany $53M

Unicorns and thoroughbreds IRIS has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Exits

IRIS’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from IRIS’s transaction record.

IPO · 2021
Now $6.6BMarketing
$3.1B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series ATransportation
$760M IPO · 2016
Entered SeedNow $2.4BEnterprise Software
$1.2B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series AFintech
$1.2B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series AEnterprise Software
$1.0B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+Marketing
04 · Portfolio analysis

Where IRIS’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 108 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. France53
  2. Germany29
  3. USA16
  4. Israel4
  5. UAE4
  6. Switzerland3
  7. Belgium2
  8. Canada2
  9. China2
  10. UK2
  11. Austria1
  12. Croatia1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software42
  2. Marketing31
  3. Fintech16
  4. Transportation10
  5. Media9
  6. Telecom9
  7. Fashion7
  8. Security7
  9. Travel6
  10. Education4
  11. Jobs Recruitment4
  12. Health3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+45
  2. Series A42
  3. Seed20
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage58
  2. Early Growth39
  3. Late Growth27
  4. Mature4
05 · Portfolio market map

Inside IRIS’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 108 tracked.

Careem
Transportation · Unicorn
$3.1B
Forto
Transportation · Unicorn
$2.1B
Exotec
Robotics · Unicorn
$2.0B
Lookout
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Shift Technology
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Staffbase
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.1B
Quantifind
Security
$800M
Zeta Global
Marketing · Unicorn
$6.6B
Adjust
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.0B
Scality
Enterprise Software
$213M
Kyriba
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.0B
Talon.One
Marketing
$825M
Jedox
Enterprise Software
$400M
Virtuo
Travel
$240M
Celeno
Semiconductors
$315M
Talend
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$2.4B
Getsafe
Fintech
$252M
LeanIX
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.2B
Zeotap
Telecom
$210M
Braincube
Enterprise Software
$365M
LumApps
Enterprise Software
$280M
iPinYou
Marketing
$312M
Red Points
Legal
$250M
Beyond the Rack
Fashion
$100M
oodrive
Enterprise Software
$15M
Open-Xchange
Enterprise Software
$92M
Flite
Marketing
$92M
Yubo
Media
$176M
Mojio
Transportation
$65M
PlaceIQ
Marketing
$100M
Modanisa
Fashion
$100M
iAdvize
Marketing
$141M
Clear2Pay
Fintech
$413M
Mediakraft Networks
Media
$73M
ArangoDB
Enterprise Software
$111M
Compeon
Fintech
$83M
unu
Transportation
$79M
Searchmetrics
Marketing
$22M
WeeFin
Fintech
$110M
Netatmo
Home Living
$132M
Secret Double Octopus
Security
$60M
jobvalley
Jobs Recruitment
$53M
Varioptic
Health
$8.8M
myThings
Marketing
$60M
Misterfly
Travel
$110M
Batch
Enterprise Software
$88M
reBuy
Consumer Electronics
$92M
Gengo
Education
$27M
Hola
Telecom
$68M
Neocase Software
Jobs Recruitment
$26M
Travador
Travel
$32M
Alyotech
Health
$18M
Escape
Security
$72M
Yallacompare
Fintech
$17M
DT One
Fintech
$14M
Mediastay
Gaming
$86M
Adaptive ML
Enterprise Software
$81M
Medic animal
Food
$53M
DelfMEMS
Telecom
$30M
MoPub
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.1B
06 · Portfolio founders

Where IRIS’s portfolio founders come from.

144 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. France57
  2. Germany31
  3. United States20
  4. Israel6
  5. United Arab Emirates5
  6. Netherlands4
  7. Switzerland3
  8. China2
  9. Japan2
  10. Austria1
UniversityCount
  1. École Polytechnique - IP Paris8
  2. CentraleSupélec - Paris-Saclay University5
  3. ESCP Business School5
  4. HEC Paris5
  5. Paris Dauphine University - PSL University4
  6. RWTH Aachen University4
  7. Sorbonne University4
  8. Technion Israel Institute of Technology4
  9. Télécom Paris - IP Paris4
  10. University of Southern California4
Previous companyCount
  1. LightOn4
  2. Apple3
  3. Capgemini3
  4. Deutsche Bank3
  5. Devoteam3
  6. Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research3
  7. Hugging Face3
  8. SLB3
  9. Actes Sud2
  10. Airbus2