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IRIS

Venture Capital · Founded 1986 · Paris, France

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

108 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $2.8B invested · 163 investments · Investor rank #1,113 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies 108 ↑ 29% 5y
Decacorns 0
Thoroughbreds 8
Power Law #17Investor Ranking · France · 2026 · Top 1%
Featured in
News MUNIC secures €1M equity line and bond restructuring to fund it to 2027 Jul 23, 2026 News Adyen pays €750M for Talon.One in its biggest acquisition yet Apr 24, 2026
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.

Dentsu
IPO · 2001
Entered Series B+Now $8.9BJobs Recruitment
Chime
$864M IPO · 2025
Entered SeedNow $7.7BFintech
Careem
$3.1B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series ATransportation
Talend
$760M IPO · 2016
Entered SeedNow $2.4BEnterprise Software
Zensar Technologies
IPO · 2000
Entered Series B+Now $1.3BHealth
Kyriba
$1.2B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series AFintech
LeanIX
$1.2B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series AEnterprise Software
Adjust
$1.0B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+Marketing
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. USA96
  2. France59
  3. Germany26
  4. UK9
  5. Spain5
  6. Belgium4
  7. Israel4
  8. Canada3
  9. India3
  10. UAE3
  11. China2
  12. Finland2
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software56
  2. Marketing45
  3. Fintech25
  4. Health21
  5. Food18
  6. Transportation15
  7. Fashion13
  8. Wellness Beauty11
  9. Media10
  10. Jobs Recruitment9
  11. Security9
  12. Home Living7
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed77
  2. Series A72
  3. Series B+67
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth100
  2. Breakout Stage91
  3. Late Growth30
  4. Mature10
Portfolio market map

Inside IRIS’s portfolio.

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

Chime
Fintech · Unicorn
$7.7B
Careem
Transportation · Unicorn
$3.1B
Forto
Transportation · Unicorn
$2.1B
Exotec
Robotics · Unicorn
$2.0B
Shift Technology
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Quantifind
Security
$800M
Placer
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.5B
Adjust
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.0B
Scality
Enterprise Software
$213M
Alembic
Marketing
$645M
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
The Mom Project
Jobs Recruitment
$320M
Braincube
Enterprise Software
$365M
LumApps
Enterprise Software
$280M
iPinYou
Marketing
$312M
Avive
Health
$226M
Red Points
Legal
$250M
Beyond the Rack
Fashion
$100M
MarginEdge
Fintech
$180M
Elevate K-12
Education
$160M
oodrive
Enterprise Software
$15M
Open-Xchange
Enterprise Software
$92M
Yubo
Media
$176M
Mojio
Transportation
$65M
Catalyst OrthoScience
Health
$100M
PlaceIQ
Marketing
$100M
Modanisa
Fashion
$100M
iAdvize
Marketing
$141M
Clear2Pay
Fintech
$413M
Mediakraft Networks
Media
$73M
ArangoDB
Enterprise Software
$111M
CHIME
Media
$72M
Compeon
Fintech
$83M
unu
Transportation
$79M
Searchmetrics
Marketing
$22M
Babyscripts
Health
$60M
Allocations
Fintech
$102M
WeeFin
Fintech
$110M
Genomenon
Health
$100M
FSM
Fintech
$118M
Netatmo
Home Living
$132M
Secret Double Octopus
Security
$60M
jobvalley
Jobs Recruitment
$53M
Varioptic
Health
$8.8M
myThings
Marketing
$60M
Misterfly
Travel
$110M
ShotTracker
Sports
$44M
Soda
Security
$63M
Growthwell
Food
$88M
Lucata
Security
$48M
Ekahau
Telecom
$64M
Interior Define
Telecom
$60M
Portfolio founders

Where IRIS’s portfolio founders come from.

134 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. France33
  2. United States33
  3. Germany21
  4. Israel10
  5. United Arab Emirates5
  6. Belgium4
  7. Spain3
  8. United Kingdom3
  9. Canada2
  10. China2
UniversityCount
  1. HEC Paris7
  2. École Polytechnique - IP Paris6
  3. London School of Economics and Political Science4
  4. Stanford University4
  5. Technion Israel Institute of Technology4
  6. Tel Aviv University4
  7. Télécom Paris - IP Paris4
  8. Harvard University3
  9. KU Leuven3
  10. Paris Dauphine University - PSL University3
Previous companyCount
  1. LightOn4
  2. Apple3
  3. Devoteam3
  4. Hugging Face3
  5. Alphabet | Google2
  6. AXA2
  7. AXA Liabilities Managers2
  8. AXA Life Japan2
  9. Check Point2
  10. GE Healthcare2
How IRIS stacks up

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Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

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#56 rank 677 companies $1.2T portfolio
Insight Partners
Private Equity · New York City
#19 rank 816 companies $2.1T portfolio
Eurazeo
Private Equity · Paris
#98 rank 374 companies $158B portfolio
Key people

Key people at IRIS.

Erik de la Rivière
Erik de la Rivière
Managing Partner
 Gil Doukhan
Gil Doukhan
Investment Manager
 Julien-David Nitlech
Julien-David Nitlech
Managing Partner
 Thorben Rothe
Thorben Rothe
Partner
 Itziar Estevez Latasa
Itziar Estevez Latasa
General Partner
 Angus Paterson
Angus Paterson
MENA
 Marie Dessaint
Marie Dessaint
CFO
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.