Right now, who gets funded depends on who you happen to know.
If you're in Silicon Valley with the right warm intros, you raise.
If you're a brilliant founder in Lagos, Karachi, Bogotá or anywhere outside the default networks, you spend months in cold email purgatory, regardless of how good your company or non-profit is.
IRIS is rebuilding that.
She's a personal AI fundraising agent for the most exceptional founders.
She gets to know each founder, their stage and what they're raising, then makes the warm introductions that move their round forward.
IRIS works both sides of that connection.
For investors, she's signal: a stream of qualified, pre-vetted founders matched to their real thesis, with the warm path already mapped, and far less noise than their inbox.
The founders get access; the investors get the right founders in front of them.
Underneath, IRIS is a relationship intelligence layer, part network operating system, part CRM, part autonomous agent, that learns from every interaction and gets sharper the more the network uses her.
She lives where founders and investors already work, across email, WhatsApp, phone and web.
We're starting with women founders in Europe, and building toward every founder, in every market, who has been raising on the wrong side of the network.
We're looking for a Founding CTO to lead the technical build of IRIS, shape product and architecture from day one, and grow the engineering team as the company scales.
Tasks Translate real-world network behaviour into structured data and intelligent, AI-driven workflows Own the product architecture from MVP to scale across email, WhatsApp, phone and web, on a secure, serverless cloud foundation Design AI systems with a strong focus on safety, fairness, privacy and transparency, ensuring recommendations and matching logic are responsible, explainable and free from harmful biasImplement best practices for AI governance, model evaluation and responsible data usage as the platform scales Unders.