The super-connected AI networker
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 people building and scaling companies. It gives founders better routes to capital and gives aligned investors sharper signal on the companies the market misses. 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.
built around the individual
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About IRIS
Founded by founders.
Run for founders.
IRIS was created because strong founders kept hitting the same walls. Not because they lacked talent, but because access to the right rooms, relationships, and context remained uneven.
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.
Aligned investors are co-equal participants in that system: trusted operators who bring capital, pattern recognition, and accountability into the same network.
We are making access more equal at the top. Too many founders face barriers to capital, networks, and power that have nothing to do with the quality of what they are building.
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.
Strong companies are still missed because capital, customers, and credibility move through fragmented relationship networks. The signal exists; it reaches the right person too late or without the context needed to act.
Capital
Relevant investors are difficult to identify before timing, thesis, and cheque fit are understood.
Context
Introductions arrive without enough shared evidence, preparation, or clarity about the next decision.
Continuity
Relationship history and hard-won knowledge disappear between meetings, spreadsheets, and inboxes.
No warm route to capital
The warm introduction remains one of the most powerful currencies in venture. Too much access still moves through closed loops, leaving strong founders without a trusted route into the right room.
No peer who has been there
Useful advice is scattered across alumni networks, accelerator cohorts, and private conversations. Founders need context from people who have already navigated the same stage and decision.
No channel to corporates
Strategic partnerships and B2B sales are brokered through relationships. Without the right network, strong products can remain invisible to the buyers who need them.
The same inefficiency hurts investors seeking quality deal flow: high-potential companies stay hidden, context arrives late, and warm paths remain concentrated in disconnected systems.
How IRIS works
The room
where founders
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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Trusted by the network
Trusted by
Founders and Funders
Short evidence from founders, funders, and partners who see the value of relationship intelligence that moves introductions forward.
“IRIS turns a network into something actionable. The dashboard gives us visibility into relationships, opportunities, and next steps, helping us build partnerships more efficiently and strategically.”
Family office
“IRIS is building the intelligence layer for venture relationships. By helping founders reach the right investors through trusted, data driven introductions, it has the potential to make fundraising more efficient, transparent, and accessible.”
Daphne, Ring Capital
“We need more impactful solutions reaching the market faster. Every hour a founder spends chasing introductions, updating spreadsheets, or coordinating follow ups is an hour not spent building. IRIS helps founders focus on creating impact while making fundraising far more efficient.”
Maheera, World Fund
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. Founders arrive trusted and investors arrive with context, so both sides enter a conversation that has earned its place.
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 founders and investors to succeed, before, during, and after the room. Backed by a live community whose collective experience shapes how the system learns, who it matches, and what it knows.
Built on what both sides actually need.
Every IRIS recommendation is explainable and intentional, shaped by founder experience and investor response patterns. Not algorithmic guesswork. Pattern recognition built from real conversations, real outcomes, and the hard-won knowledge of people 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.
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IRIS AI can work for you.
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A public commitment
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.
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. Free, always.
Two minutes, deck optional
Founders, funders, partners, corporates, and IRIS company investors all start from one routed intake.
IRIS sends your call link
Your application triggers the right onboarding email, calendar link, and next step.
Your profile starts compounding
After the call, IRIS turns your signup, transcript, and deck context into a living profile.
Investors & corporates
Select your workspace in the form and IRIS will route your request to the right next step.