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December 9, 2021

Meet Iris, the new €100m fund created because tech VCs don’t get consumer brands 

The fund is also evidence of private equity firms getting in on the startup game


Tim Smith

3 min read

Montse Suarez (right) and Inés Ures

Consumer brands often target women. Yet the VCs investing in those brands are men — who probably don’t understand them that well. 

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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