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IRIS

Venture capital firm · Active in 2026

IRIS is a venture capital firm active globally. The page below shows 16 Power Law outcomes from IRIS's portfolio — 11 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Transportation · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are Germany · USA · France. IRIS ranks #17 in France in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

16 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #17 · France · 16 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 38% 5y
11
Decacorns → 5y
0
Thoroughbreds ↑ 17% 5y
9
Featured in #17Power Law Investor Ranking · France · 2026Top 3%
01 · Exits

IRIS’s biggest exits.

IRIS portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

Zeta Global
$1.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $4.6B
Careem
$3.1B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series A
Talend
$760M IPO · 2016
Entered SeedNow $2.4B
Jumia Group
$2.2B IPO · 2019
Now $810M
LeanIX
$1.2B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series A
Kyriba
$1.2B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series A
Adjust
$1.0B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 16 IRIS Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. Germany7
  2. USA4
  3. France3
  4. Nigeria1
  5. UAE1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software3
  2. Transportation3
  3. Fintech3
  4. Marketing2
  5. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  6. Robotics1
  7. Other1
  8. Cybersecurity1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+10
  2. Series A3
  3. Seed2
04 · Portfolio market map

IRIS's 16 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
16 of 16 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does IRIS stack up?

IRIS in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where IRIS's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

57 founders across the 16 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Technical University Munich and Rocket Internet are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
Germany28
France6
Nigeria5
Sweden3
Pakistan3
Canada2
United States2
Poland1
Ghana1
Senegal1
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UniversityCount
Technical University Munich4
HKUST MBA2
INSEAD Business School2
HEC Paris2
RWTH Aachen University2
Munich Center for Digital Technology and Management2
Howard University2
Harvard University2
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania2
Harvard Business School2
+27 more →
Origin companyCount
Rocket Internet3
SAP2
UUNET2
Alphabet | Google2
Just Eat Takeaway.com2
Balyo1
Nuix1
Zalando1
Adjust1
Remerge1
+4 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at IRIS.

Curt Gunsenheimer
Curt Gunsenheimer
Managing Partner
 Erik de la Rivière
Erik de la Rivière
Managing Partner
 Julien-David Nitlech
Julien-David Nitlech
Managing Partner
 Itziar Estevez
Itziar Estevez
Partner - Growth
 Nicolas Herschtel
Nicolas Herschtel
Partner - Growth
 Thorben Rothe
Thorben Rothe
Partner - Venture
 Angus Paterson
Angus Paterson
Venture Partner
Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about IRIS

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about IRIS on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about IRIS

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