The super-connected personal fundraising agent
Europe’s first AI networker powering capital and strategic partnerships.
Built by ClarisseForbes 30 Under 30 Europe$5M raised at Cellcraft
IRIS is a founder-led network for women building and scaling companies. Every member who succeeds brings her knowledge, her connections, and her hard-won experience back into the room, raising the floor for every founder who comes after her. AI matching, community network, pitch prep, free for founders.
About Iris
Founded by women founders.
Run for women founders.
IRIS was created because women founders kept hitting the same walls. Not because they lacked talent, but because the rooms where decisions are made were closed to them.
We believe the best way to change a system is to build a better one alongside it. A super-connector network where success is shared, knowledge flows back, and no founder has to build alone.
We are making it equal at the top. Women disproportionately face barriers to capital, networks, and power, not because of capability, but because the system was not built with them in mind.
She raised $5M for an AI company now on its Series A. She built the Cambridge Female Founder Network from the ground up. Forbes named her one of the 30 most impactful people under 30 in Europe. Iris is the infrastructure she built because she needed it and it didn’t exist.
The problem
The gap is not a
talent problem.
It is a network problem.
In Europe, male tech founders still outnumber women about six to one. The funding picture is harsher still—most capital, customers, and credibility are brokered in rooms where women are underrepresented, or not in the room at all.
83.6%
All-male founder teams · Europe
European venture deal share, all-male founder teams
1.2%
All-female founder teams · Europe
European venture deal share, all-female founder teams
Male founders still inherit the warm path—capital moves roughly thirteen times faster. Female founders have to build that infrastructure to survive.
That is what Iris is.
No warm route to capital
The warm introduction is the most powerful currency in venture. It is almost exclusively traded inside networks that were not designed to include them, and the single-digit share of European VC that reaches all-female founder teams is proof the gap is not a pipeline problem alone.
No peer who has been there
Mentorship flows through alumni networks, accelerator cohorts, and boardrooms. All historically spaces female founders were not built into, and still underrepresented in today.
No channel to corporates
Strategic partnerships and B2B sales are brokered through relationships. Without the right network, the best products never reach the buyers who need them most.
How Iris works
The room
where women
stay in power.
Iris doesn’t wait to be asked.
She’s already working.
While you’re building, Iris is running, scanning backing patterns, tracking investor deployment cycles, mapping your profile against the network. By the time you need an introduction, the groundwork is already done. The conversation you’re about to see didn’t start when you sent a message. It started the moment you joined.
A conversation, not a form
Iris calls you. You have a conversation, your stage, your sector, your goals, and where you are stuck. Your profile is mapped to the full network. Then Iris gets to work.
And when the fit is right, the introduction moves.
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Why Iris
High-signal
by design.
Too many fundraising conversations start without enough fit, context, or trust. Iris is designed to improve the quality of connection from the start, reducing noise, sharpening relevance, and making introductions more meaningful on both sides.
Working for you while you sleep
Iris is not an agent you activate when you need something. She runs continuously, scanning investor deployment cycles, tracking backing patterns, mapping new connections as the network grows. By the time you ask for an introduction, Iris has often already identified the match.
Pitch intelligence trained on real investors
Before you walk into a meeting, Iris has already mapped how that investor type responds, their real objection patterns, their decision triggers, their blind spots. You arrive having already had the conversation once.
Introductions that land because they are earned
Every investor is verified by actual track record before any introduction is made. Every introduction is endorsed by a member. You are not sent into a room cold, you are sent in trusted, context-shared, pitch-ready.
You vet the investor before they vet you
Iris checks every investor's track record before making any introduction, who they have actually backed, at what stage, in which sectors. You walk into every meeting knowing exactly who you are talking to.
No success fee. Ever.
Iris does not take a cut of your round. When an introduction leads to investment, the return belongs entirely to you. We succeed when the network succeeds, not by taking a share of what you built.
Mentors matched by what they have lived, not where they live
Matched by sector, stage, fundraising history, and geography to founders who navigated your exact challenge. Not the nearest person with an impressive title. The right person with the right experience.
Why it works
Not just a platform.
A system designed
to close rounds.
Most tools make introductions. Iris builds the conditions for them to succeed, before, during, and after the room. Backed by a live community of founders whose collective experience shapes how the system learns, who it matches, and what it knows.
Built on what founders actually say.
Every Iris recommendation is explainable and intentional, shaped directly by the experiences of our founder community. Not algorithmic guesswork. Pattern recognition built from real conversations, real outcomes, and the hard-won knowledge of founders who have been through the room before you.
Both sides arrive prepared.
Iris prepares founders and investors before they meet, the right timing, the right framing, the right context for that specific relationship. No cold meetings. No wasted conversations. Every introduction lands with the groundwork already in place.
We don’t just open the door.
Iris tracks what happens after the introduction, flagging the right moment to follow up, connecting founders to peer support and legal guidance when momentum stalls, and staying in the conversation until the outcome is reached.
The network gets smarter with every match.
Iris learns from every interaction, what signals a strong fit, which conversations convert, where founders needed more time. That intelligence compounds across the network, continuously improving matching accuracy. Each member makes it better for the next.
Sign up and see how
Iris AI can work for you.
About two minutes to complete. Reviewed within a day. Free, always.
A public commitment
Female founders close their round.
By the end of 2027. Or we failed.
We are not trying to raise awareness. We are not running a programme. We are building the infrastructure to close rounds, and we are holding ourselves to a number. Fifty founders. Funded. By 31 December 2027. Every feature we ship, every investor we vet, every introduction we make, is accountable to this.
Built on a community of founders who have been where you are, and stayed to help the next one through.
For investors
Better deal flow
starts with better signal.
Pre-qualified, context-rich introductions
Every founder introduced to you has been vetted by the Iris community, reviewed for stage fit, and prepared for your specific investment thesis. No cold inbound. No wasted meetings.
Sector and stage matched to your mandate
Iris maps your backing patterns, fund cycle, and sector focus. You only receive introductions where the fit is verified, not volume, not spray and pray.
Access to Europe’s strongest female founder pipeline
Iris connects you to Europe’s growing network of vetted female founders. The gender funding gap means most investors are missing a significant portion of Europe’s best early-stage companies.
No fees. Mutual commitment.
Iris does not charge investors. In return, investors commit to responding to introductions in a timely manner. Every member of the network, on both sides, is accountable to that standard.
Start here
Better connections
start with better
infrastructure.
Whether you are raising or investing, Iris brings the right people into the right conversations, with more trust, more context, and better fit.
About two minutes to complete. Reviewed within a day. Free, always.
Two minutes, no deck
No pitch deck. No essay questions. Just the basics.
Iris reviews and responds
Within a day. You’ll hear either way, always.
Your onboarding begins immediately
Iris calls you. Your profile is mapped to the full network. Intros appear in your inbox as soon as there’s a match.
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