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Iris Capital

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Franco-German venture capital firm

Iris Capital is a venture capital firm specializing 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. Iris Capital is sponsored by Orange and Publicis since 2012.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Iris Capital is a venture capital firm specializing 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. Iris Capital is sponsored by Orange and Publicis since 2012.2

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Current Portfolio

Among Iris Capital's recent portfolio companies are the following:

Adjust – Germany: Attribution and analytics for apps

Adomik – France: Yield management of programmatic ad inventory

Getsafe – Germany: App to manage insurance on smartphones

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iAdvize – France: Conversational commerce platform

Kyriba – France/US: treasury solutions in the cloud

Lookout – US: mobile security

PlaceIQ – US: Location intelligence services

Quantifind – US

ReBuy – Germany: Online commerce

Scality – France/US: Storage management and infrastructure software

Searchmetrics – Germany: SEO software

Secret Double Octopus – Israel: Password-free authentication

Shift Technology – France: Fraud detection software in insurance

Studitemps – Germany: Temp workers

Yodo1 – China

Past Portfolio Investments

Past portfolio companies Iris Capital has backed:

Instant Luxe – France (acquired by Galeries 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)

Careem – Dubai (acquired by Uber)

Cobi – Germany (acquired by Bosch)

Computec – Germany (acquired by Marquard Media)

Erenis – France (acquired by Neuf Cegetel/SFR)

FastBooking – France (acquired by 3i and EDRIP)

Gengo – France (acquired by Lionbridge)

Human Inference – Pays-Bas (acquired by Neopost)

Instant Luxe – France (acquired by Galeries Lafayette)

Kiala – Belgium (acquired by UPS)

Let It Wave – France (acquired by Zoran)

Mailjet – France (acquired by Mailgun)

Marco Vasco – France (acquired by Groupe Figaro)

Mister-auto – France (acquired by PSA)

Mopub – US (acquired by Twitter)

Netatmo – France (acquired by Legrand)

Oodrive – France (acquired by R Capital Management)

OpenTrust – France (acquired by Keynectis)

Phone.com – US (listed on NASDAQ – now Openwave)

QSC – Germany (listed on TecDAX)

Store Electronic System – France (acquired by LBO France)

Talend – France (IPO (Nasdaq))

Vox Mobili – France (acquired by On Mobile)

Wavecom – France (listed on NASDAQ and Euronext, acquired by Sierra Wireless)

Zantaz – US (acquired by Autonomy)

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Timeline

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