Iris Capital
| Industry | Venture capital |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1986 |
| Headquarters | Paris, San Francisco, Montreal, Düsseldorf, Beijing, Tokyo, Riyadh, Dubai |
Number of locations | 8 |
| Total assets | EUR 900 million + |
| Website | www.iriscapital.com |
Iris Capital is a venture capital firm, specialized in the digital economy, primarily active in Europe. Since its creation, the Iris Capital team has invested more than a billion Euros in over 230 innovative companies.[1] Iris Capital is sponsored by Orange and Publicis since 2012.[2]
Overview
Created in 1986 within the Caisse des Dépôts, the team was spun off in 2003 and became Iris Capital.[3] Investing internationally since 1991, Iris Capital has always held a sector-specific strategy covering media, telecommunications, information technology and Internet services, which have converged into today's digital economy.[citation needed]
Geographical reach
Iris Capital has invested in over 20 countries (of which 18 in Europe) and is mainly active in continental Europe, with a core activity in France, Germany, Benelux and Switzerland. Iris Capital acts as lead investor or in some circumstances as value-added co-investor.[4] Moreover, Iris Capital in the Middle East is the fund manager of STC Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Saudi Arabian telecom operator, STC.[5] Iris Capital has offices in Paris, Berlin, Tel-Aviv, San Francisco, Tokyo, Riyadh and Dubai.[6]
Active portfolio
Among Iris Capital's recent portfolio companies are the following:
- Adjust – Germany: Attribution and analytics for apps[7]
- Adomik – France: Yield management of programmatic ad inventory[8]
- AdotMob – France: France: Mobile ad programmatic platform[9]
- Getsafe – Germany: App to manage insurance on smartphones[10]
- Hola – Israel: Video CDN with mid-stream switching[11]
- iAdvize – France: Conversational commerce platform[12]
- Kyriba – France/USA: treasury solutions in the cloud[13]
- Lookout – USA: mobile security[14]
- Mailjet – France : Cloud emailing platform[15]
- Marco Vasco – France: Online travel agent[16]
- Netatmo – France: Internet of things for home[17]
- PlaceIQ – USA: Location intelligence services[18]
- Quantifind – USA[19]
- ReBuy – Germany: Online commerce[20]
- Scality – France/USA: Storage management and infrastructure software[21]
- Searchmetrics – Germany: SEO software[22]
- Secret Double Octopus - Israel: Password-free authentication[23]
- Shift Technology – France: Fraud detection software in insurance[24]
- Studitemps – Germany: Temp workers[25]
- Talend – France/USA[26]
- Yodo1 – Chinan[27]
Exits
Here are some past portfolio companies Iris Capital has backed:
- Instant Luxe – France (acquired by Galerie Lafayette)
- ProWebCE – France (acquired by Edenred)
- Mister Auto – France (acquired by PSA Peugeot Citroën)
- MoPub – France (acquired by Twitter)
- Alphanim – France (acquired by Gaumont)
- Cirpack – France (acquired by Thomson/Technicolor)
- Computec – Germany (acquired by Marquard Media)
- Erenis – France (acquired by Neuf Cegetel/SFR)
- FastBooking – France (acquired by 3i and EDRIP)
- Human Inference – Pays-Bas (acquired by Neopost)
- Kiala – Belgique (acquired by UPS)
- Let It Wave – France (acquired by Zoran)
- QSC – Allemagne (listed on TecDAX)
- OpenTrust – France (acquired by Keynectis)
- Phone.com – USA (listed on NASDAQ - now Openwave)
- Store Electronic System – France (acquired by LBO France)
- Vox Mobili – France (acquired by On Mobile)
- Wavecom – France (listed on NASDAQ and Euronext, acquired by Sierra Wireless)
- Zantas – USA (acquired by Autonomy)
References
- ^ Investment vehicle description of Iris Capital Fund III
- ^ Another European Carrier Goes VC: Orange Partners With Publicis, Iris In $400M Fund
- ^ Partcom lève 100 millions et devient Iris Capital
- ^ VC firm Iris Capital in ambitious expansion plans
- ^ Iris Capital manages STC Ventures, the newly-established Saudi Telecom Group venture fund
- ^ Iris Capital Opens New Offices in Montreal, San Francisco, Beijing and Tokyo
- ^ Berlin’s Adjust app analytics firm raises $7.6M as it expands overseas
- ^ Sell-Side Solutions Provider Adomik Raises 1.3 Million Euroes
- ^ AdotMob Raises €1M
- ^ GetSafe Digital Insurance Manager
- ^ Hola inks $17 mln in Iris Capital-led round
- ^ iAdvize Grabs $16 Million For Its Customer Engagement Platform
- ^ Kyriba Raises $10.6M in Growth Financing from Iris Capital and existing investor BRED
- ^ Iris Capital invests in Lookout
- ^ Mailjet raises $11M Series B, primed to grow in a crowded email marketing space
- ^ Planetveo Raises €15M in Funding
- ^ Iris Capital in €30m round for Netatmo
- ^ Location-Focused Ad Startup PlaceIQ Raises $15M More
- ^ Quantifind Raises $12M To Translate Social Media Data Into Sales
- ^ Iris Capital led a funding round for reBuy reCommerce GmbH.
- ^ Scality Closes $45 Million Series D Funding to Transform the Storage Industry with Software-Based Storage Solution
- ^ Searchmetrics raises $6.75 million C-round financing to expand globally
- ^ Secret Double Octopus Raises $6 Million to Protect Identity and Data Using Nuclear Launch Code Safety Algorithms
- ^ Technology grabs $10 million to prevent fraudulent insurance claims
- ^ Searchmetrics raises $6.75 million C-round financing to expand globally
- ^ Talend Raises $40M To More Aggressively Extend Into Big Data Market, Sets Sights On IPO
- ^ Cross-Cultural Mobile Games Publisher Yodo1 Raises $11M Led By GGV Capital