The team

Built by founders.
Operated by operators.

IRIS is a small, deliberate team. Each person here has either raised, scaled, or shipped the kind of work the network is designed to support, so the system stays close to the founders it serves.

Founder

Clarisse Beurrier
Clarisse
Founder · Iris

Clarisse is CTO and co-founder of Cellcraft, a Cambridge-based AI and biomanufacturing company currently raising its Series A after securing £5M to date. She has built and scaled Cellcraft into a team of ten, developing intelligent systems for the future of biomanufacturing. Alongside this, she co-founded and scaled a female founders network into a fully operating organisation of 250 members, with corporate sponsors, investors, and a dedicated team of two full-time employees. Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Impact cover honouree. MPhil in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge. BSc, Imperial College London.

  • University of Cambridge
  • Imperial College London

Operating team

Valentin Stanciu
Valentin
Tech Lead

Valentin is a technical founder, systems architect, and AI builder. He left his formal studies in Technological Physics to immerse himself in software engineering and applied AI, and now serves as Senior QA Engineer at the mental health med-tech platform Psyomics, where he designs scalable, automated frameworks for high-stakes environments. He previously launched Sereni.day, a voice-based AI companion. He builds robust products that founders and users can rely on, driven by a single mission: leveraging applied AI to tangibly improve human connection, mental health, and societal well-being.

Jacqueline Corsini
Jacquie
Product & Partnerships Lead

Jacquie is a serial entrepreneur, operations strategist, and mother. With a background in asset management and an MSc in Policy from UCL, she has acquired and digitally transformed multiple businesses, building scalable, high-performance operations. At IRIS she focuses on forging strong partnerships internationally and shaping a product founders can rely on, safe, robust, and built to deliver. She is particularly passionate about increasing the visibility of mothers within the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

  • University College London
Casey Ya-Wen Lee
Casey
Community Lead

Casey is a strategic community architect with a perspective spanning Venture Capital and early-stage startups in Asia. At a renowned Taipei-based VC she focused on the evaluation of high-growth deal flow across Taiwan and Southeast Asia, gaining direct insight into the structural barriers and relationship layers that govern capital allocation. She is the founder of Kind Bonding, a London-based community that has engaged over 1,000 participants through curated exchange. Her analytical background from National Taiwan University lets her navigate closed-door networks with precision.

  • National Taiwan University
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Sarah
Social Media Lead

Sarah is a social media strategist and content specialist with experience across agency and in-house roles for leading London cultural institutions and creative brands. Her work has focused on platform strategy, audience behaviour, and creating high-performing content across major social channels, giving her a strong understanding of how attention is built and sustained online. She currently leads social content production at one of the world’s most-visited cultural institutions, V&A, managing content for a global audience.

  • Victoria and Albert Museum
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Astrid
Operations

Astrid is a strategy and operations professional with experience leading global transformation programs at Accenture. She has advised Fortune 500 companies on capital allocation, supply chain resilience, and value chain transformation. She holds an MPhil from Judge Business School, Cambridge, and an MBA from INSEAD, with exposure to private equity, venture capital, and entrepreneurship through acquisition. She combines financial insight with execution to drive real-world impact.

  • INSEAD
  • University of Cambridge
  • Accenture