# Iris.ai

> <p><strong>Ownership:</strong> Privately held<br><strong>Pricing:</strong> Enterprise SaaS pricing. Free Researcher Workspace tier for individual use.<br><strong>Known for:</strong> Originally Norwegian-founded (2015 by Anita Schjøll Brede and Maria Ritola), now Madrid-headquartered. AI-driven scientific-research discovery platform — finds relevant academic papers and patents using deep semantic search. Used by R&amp;D teams at corporates and research institutions. Quietly one of the most credible European AI companies in the research-discovery vertical. The semantic-search engine is genuinely useful for anyone doing literature reviews at scale.<br><a href="https://iris.ai">https://iris.ai</a></p>

https://iris.ai