Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Investor Stage

Late Stage Venture

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 out of 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).