Curt Gunsenheimer
Managing Partner @ IRIS
Berlin, Germany
Curt Gunsenheimer is a Series B investor at IRIS in Berlin focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Curt Gunsenheimer is Managing Partner of Iris Capital. He joined Iris Capital in 2002, as Partner then Senior Partner in charge of late-stage venture and growth capital. Curt has a unique German and American anchoring and expertise in enterprise software, cloud, SaaS, software-enabled services and automotive tech on both continents. Based outof Berlin, Curt also oversees all activities and investments in the DACH region, where Iris Capital has funded over 20 businesses in the last ten years. As an investor at Iris Capital, Curt has supported over 20 companies in Europe and the US, from their growth stage to their IPO or acquisition, helping them settle and develop on both sides of the Atlantic. Current and recent investments include Jedox, Kyriba, Mister-Auto.com (acquired by PSA Peugeot Citroën), Neocase Software, Open-Xchange, reBuy reCommerce, Scality, Searchmetrics, Studitemps and Talend (IPO on NASDAQ). Prior to joining Iris Capital, Curt worked at Goldman Sachs and at Robertson Stephens, based in London and San Francisco, where he led and worked on numerous IPOs across Europe international M&A transactions in Europe and the US. Curt also worked for MIT on entrepreneurship and technology spin-out programs.Curt is a graduate of ESSEC School of Management (Paris, France) and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, USA).
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
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Industries Curt Gunsenheimer invests in
Stages Curt Gunsenheimer invests in
Countries Curt Gunsenheimer invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (44%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (22%)
- SaaS 2 (11%)
- Big Data 2 (11%)
- Open Source 2 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (17%)
- Series C 3 (17%)
- Series D 3 (17%)
- Funding Round 3 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (11%)
Country
- France 5 (28%)
- United States 5 (28%)
- Germany 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| ArangoDB is an open-source database that offers a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key values. Build applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, United States. | $27.8M / Series B / Oct 06, 2021 | ||
| Neocase is a provider of integrated HR and Finance service delivery solutions.We enable large and mid-size organizations to reduce costs, standardize processes and improve employee, customer and supplier relationships. This is typically achieved within shared service centers and global business services environments. Our software streamlinesservice delivery through advanced case management, powerful business process automation, a rich knowledge base, personalized self-service portals and deep analytics.Delivered in the cloud, leveraging its award-winning modern technology platform, Neocase integrates with core HR platforms like Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and other systems to leverage existing data. | $6.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 13, 2020 | ||
| A borderless internet that is open, safe and free. Ever since Open-Xchange was founded back in 2005 the philosophy driving the company has been clear:develop software and services that give businesses the flexibility and freedom to excel, create an open, safe environment for people to connect and collaborate, build platforms based on the ideathat maximizing value to both customers and users is a sustainable long term strategy in fast moving competitive markets.Today, with a proven record in agile software development, Open-Xchange continues to evolve their products and services based on this approach by delivering the only integrated, open-source messaging, collaboration and productivity stack for Telcos, Hosters and Service Providers. | $24.9M / Series D / Oct 11, 2017 | ||
| Kyriba is the world's most comprehensive Liquidity Performance Platform, purpose-built to help CFOs and treasury teams connect, protect, forecast, and optimize liquidity in real time.Trusted by more than 4,000 organizations across 170 countries, Kyriba processes $51 trillion in payments annually across 10,000+ bank connections, serving100,000+ platform users and 550 million payments per year.Kyriba's platform unifies bank, ERP, and enterprise data to automate treasury, payments, risk management, and working capital — giving finance teams a single source of truth and real-time visibility across their entire liquidity ecosystem.At the core of Kyriba's innovation is TAI (Treasury AI), an agentic AI solution that forecasts cash, liquidity, and risk exposures while automating decision-making. Unlike generic AI tools, TAI is embedded directly within the Kyriba platform — meaning customer data never leaves the system, addressing the AI Trust Gap that affects 82% of CFOs.Kyriba is also at the forefront of the stablecoin revolution in treasury, partnering with Circle to enable USDC-based payment flows and co-developing the first-ever joint Stablecoins & On-Chain Liquidity Certificate with the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP).Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Kyriba is backed by Bridgepoint and General Atlantic. The company takes its name from Kiribati, the Pacific island nation whose location — straddling the International Date Line — represents its mission to bridge the world of finance. | $45M / Series E / Sep 27, 2017 | ||
| Kyriba is the world's most comprehensive Liquidity Performance Platform, purpose-built to help CFOs and treasury teams connect, protect, forecast, and optimize liquidity in real time.Trusted by more than 4,000 organizations across 170 countries, Kyriba processes $51 trillion in payments annually across 10,000+ bank connections, serving100,000+ platform users and 550 million payments per year.Kyriba's platform unifies bank, ERP, and enterprise data to automate treasury, payments, risk management, and working capital — giving finance teams a single source of truth and real-time visibility across their entire liquidity ecosystem.At the core of Kyriba's innovation is TAI (Treasury AI), an agentic AI solution that forecasts cash, liquidity, and risk exposures while automating decision-making. Unlike generic AI tools, TAI is embedded directly within the Kyriba platform — meaning customer data never leaves the system, addressing the AI Trust Gap that affects 82% of CFOs.Kyriba is also at the forefront of the stablecoin revolution in treasury, partnering with Circle to enable USDC-based payment flows and co-developing the first-ever joint Stablecoins & On-Chain Liquidity Certificate with the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP).Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Kyriba is backed by Bridgepoint and General Atlantic. The company takes its name from Kiribati, the Pacific island nation whose location — straddling the International Date Line — represents its mission to bridge the world of finance. | $23M / Series D / Sep 29, 2016 | ||
| Scality is the industry leader in petabyte-scale, software-defined storage. Founded in 2009, Scality software-based RING storage delivers billions of files to five hundred million users daily with 100% availability. The RING makes standard x86 servers scale to hundreds of petabytes and billions of objects. The RING’s end-to-end parallelarchitecture provides unsurpassed performance, while its patented object storage core increases availability and durability and dramatically reduces operational costs. The RING integrates with applications through standard storage protocols such as NFS; S3; OpenStack Swift and Cinder. Scality’s customers include four of the world's largest media and telecommunications companies, and market leaders throughout the US, EU, and Japan.Scality’s customers include four of the top ten cable operators in the US, the second largest Telco in France, leading portals in Italy, Germany, and UK, mobile operators in Japan, and the second largest online video site in the world. | $57M / Series D / Aug 25, 2015 | ||
| Searchmetrics is a global provider of search data, software and consulting solutions. Its innovative approach ensures household names like AXA, Lowe’s and McKinsey & Company thrive in the hyper-competitive search landscape. Searchmetrics enterprise offerings turn data from search into unique business insights that fuel clients’ continuedgrowth. Searchmetrics Suite delivers data-driven insights to maximize search and content performance. Its four modules: Research Cloud, Content Experience, Search Experience and Site Experience contain the tools SEO professionals, content marketers and digital specialists need to grow their organic search into a major driver of revenue.The Digital Strategies Group is a team of data, SEO and content consultants who guide the world’s largest brands to excellence in digital marketing. Searchmetrics Insights offer new sources of market research through exclusive metrics and analysis derived from search data.Searchmetrics API allows enterprises to enrich BI or data warehouse applications with search engine rankings, keywords, content data and other marketing analytics. | $5.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 01, 2015 | ||
| Kyriba is the world's most comprehensive Liquidity Performance Platform, purpose-built to help CFOs and treasury teams connect, protect, forecast, and optimize liquidity in real time.Trusted by more than 4,000 organizations across 170 countries, Kyriba processes $51 trillion in payments annually across 10,000+ bank connections, serving100,000+ platform users and 550 million payments per year.Kyriba's platform unifies bank, ERP, and enterprise data to automate treasury, payments, risk management, and working capital — giving finance teams a single source of truth and real-time visibility across their entire liquidity ecosystem.At the core of Kyriba's innovation is TAI (Treasury AI), an agentic AI solution that forecasts cash, liquidity, and risk exposures while automating decision-making. Unlike generic AI tools, TAI is embedded directly within the Kyriba platform — meaning customer data never leaves the system, addressing the AI Trust Gap that affects 82% of CFOs.Kyriba is also at the forefront of the stablecoin revolution in treasury, partnering with Circle to enable USDC-based payment flows and co-developing the first-ever joint Stablecoins & On-Chain Liquidity Certificate with the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP).Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Kyriba is backed by Bridgepoint and General Atlantic. The company takes its name from Kiribati, the Pacific island nation whose location — straddling the International Date Line — represents its mission to bridge the world of finance. | $21M / Series C / Apr 07, 2015 | ||
| Mister Auto sells automobile parts and accessories online to buyers in France. | $11M / Series C / Dec 18, 2013 | ||
| Talend is a leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, enables companies to transform by delivering trusted data at the speed of business. Talend Data Fabric offers a single suite of apps that shortens the time to trusted data by solving some of the most complex aspects of the data value chain. Users can collect data across systems,govern it to ensure proper use, transform it to new formats and improve quality, and share it with internal and external stakeholders. | $40M / Dec 11, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
About IRIS
Iris Capital is a European VC specialized in digital, fueling entrepreneurs from early stage to growth since 1986. From Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Dubai, Iris Capital supports start-ups and scale-ups in their global expansion with the unique support on its multi corporate partners, including Orange, Publicis, Valeo andBRED.Iris Capital invests in various industries, from platforms to Saas, AdTech, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, IoT, robotics and mobile services, and is always looking for ambitious industry disrupters led by unique entrepreneurs across the world.
IRIS Contacts
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Angus Paterson
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Curt Gunsenheimer
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Frédérique Leclerc
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Gil Doukhan
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What does Curt Gunsenheimer invest in?
Curt Gunsenheimer invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Curt Gunsenheimer closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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