In a recent Q&A with Silicon Roundabout, Michael Treskow - Partner at Eight Roads Ventures, shares his journey from late-stage investing in the US to early-stage investing in Europe ⬇️ 🚀 Michael highlights our strategy at Eight Roads for supporting founders during the crucial scale-up phase and shares insights on the current market landscape Read more from Michael below ✨ cc Michael Kushner https://lnkd.in/eQZH9xbZ
Eight Roads
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
We back and partner with game-changing technology and healthcare companies in China, Europe, India, Japan and the US.
About us
Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm backed by Fidelity that helps entrepreneurs scale. We back and partner with game-changing technology and healthcare companies. With a presence in China, Europe, India and Japan, our global platform has 50+ years of venture investing experience, $11 Bn in AUM, over 300 portfolio companies and 60+ IPOs.
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External link for Eight Roads
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
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- Bermuda
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1969
- Specialties
- Healthcare, Biosciences & Life Sciences, Consumer Technology, Internet & e-Commerce, FinTech & FinServ, Telecommunications, Food & Agriculture, Education and Skills Development, Enterprise Tech, Pharmaceuticals, Edu Tech, and Health Tech
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Employees at Eight Roads
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Matthew Heath
International board, investment, legal and management experience
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George Berkowski
AR + 3D Commerce, Product Builder, Entrepreneur Best-Selling Author and Speaker.
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Eric Blatte
Founder, GTM Leader, Advisor at high growth security and B2B cos
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Alston Zecha
FinTech & Enterprise SW. Startup founder —> Partner @ Eight Roads
Updates
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Huge congratulations to the team at Eon.io on today's launch of their next-generation cloud backup platform, raising $127 million in funding 🧡 👫The talented trio of founders - Ofir Ehrlich, Ron Kimchi, and Gonen Stein joined forces in early 2024 with a mission to simplify cloud backup management. 💵 Eon.io secured $127M this year from Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed and Greenoaks, with additional backing from Eight Roads, Vine Ventures, L.P. Meron Capital, and Operator Partners We're thrilled to support the team as they scale and tackle the challenges of cloud backup 💻 For more details, check out Ingrid Lunden's article on TechCrunch ⬇️️ https://lnkd.in/e3kbs5Fm cc Davor Hebel Eyal R.
Eon emerges from stealth with $127M to bring a fresh approach to back up cloud infrastructure | TechCrunch
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"Founders are the irreplaceable fuel for the overall ecosystem success and we need to make sure their ambition is nurtured properly. Daily challenges are part of the game and we should help them, and ourselves, rekindle the "Impossible Is Nothing" mentality 🚀" Thoughts from Davor Hebel, Managing Partner at Eight Roads below 👇
Founder ambition is dynamic. It is directionally there from the start and then it crystalizes fully over time. As founders build their companies and achieve milestones, their ambition grows. That’s great news for the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem as well. A couple of decades ago, building a $1 billion company was a dream of the highest order. Today, in Europe alone, we have a number of companies like Spotify marching towards $100 bn valuations and aspiring to catch up their US peers worth trillions. Dynamic ambition means it can shrink as well. Market conditions, funding environment, and personal circumstances are among things that can also force founders to reconsider just how big their dream ought to be. And last couple of years have been more testing for the founders than most. In sports, the whole industry wraps around the young dreamers and encourages them to "Just Do It" and that “Impossible is Nothing”. Yes, there is the daily grind and failures along the way, but there are many roles models explaining how it is all well worth it: early morning sessions, personal life sacrifices, and sleepless nights before competitions. We need to remind our founders that "Impossible is Nothing" as well. Founders are some of the most resilient humans on Earth, but human nonetheless. Whilst encouraging them to make sure not to run out of cash is a great tactical advice, we need to remember that we are here to help them keep reaching for the stars and offer help along the way including: 🌍 Reminding them of their vision – day-to-day execution can often obfuscate long term goals. It is often easier for people slightly removed from ongoing operations to keep the perspective on the longer-term opportunity 💪 Surrounding founders with role models of success – Seeing others who have achieved greatness can be a motivator and a guide 📖 Offering resources and scaling advice – Providing expertise, advice and scaling resources can often unlock and accelerate execution at inflection points. We at Eight Roads surround ourselves with dozens of functional and industry experts to help founders scale successfully 🤗 Providing peer support and encouragement – Sometimes founders need other founders to confide in. We have created a confidential forum called Elev8 to offer scaling advice and also for founders to chat to each other about sensitive topics 💎 Being there for the founders through thick and thin – In the end, the journey of building something large out of nothing is challenging, arduous, and often lonely. We need to rally around our founders and protect them the best we can, not add our own fears to their list of issues Founders are the irreplaceable fuel for the overall ecosystem success and we need to make sure their ambition is nurtured properly. Daily challenges are part of the game and we should help them, and ourselves, rekindle the "Impossible Is Nothing" mentality 🚀 #entrepreneurialsuccess #impossibleisnothing #dailygrind
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Our Eight Roads team are in Munich today for the Bits & Pretzels founder conference ⬇️ Reach out below if you're keen to connect ☕ Jens Neisius, Laura Salesse, Louis Frach 💥
Great to be at Bits & Pretzels in Munich today with my colleagues Jens and Laura! Loving the conversations and the atmosphere among founders and investors alike. The startup ecosystem is thriving, and we're thrilled to be part of it at Eight Roads!
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Scale-Up Health isn't just a conference, it's a community! 🤝 And that's exactly what we witnessed at the third edition of #ScaleUpHealth in Mumbai this year. Founders, experts, leaders and ecosystem partners all converging to share ideas, insights and experiences. As we continue to grow this platform, we hope to bring the community more opportunities to meet and learn. 📺 Here’s a quick recap of #ScaleUpHealth2024 👇 Eight Roads, McKinsey India #scaleup #events #healthcare #founders #entrepreneurs #lifesciences #innovation #startups #trends
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Praharsh Chandra, Co-founder & CBO of Shadowfax, recently attended as a speaker at Scaleup Consumer: Conversations & Connection With Founders, an event organized by Eight Roads. His insights into scaling businesses and driving consumer engagement provided valuable perspectives for the audience. #shadowfax #lordoflogistics #throughtleadership #shadowfaxevent #ScaleupConsumer #foundersconnection #businessgrowth #EightRoadsEvent #ecommerce #quickcommerce #d2c #consumer #leadershipinsights
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Partner & Head of India Technology, Consumer and Financial Services Investments, Eight Roads Ventures
It’s a big day for the Whatfix team as they announce their $125 million Series E round led by Warburg Pincus LLC with participation from SoftBank Investment Advisers. More power to you Khadim Batti, Vara Kumar Namburu and the entire Whatfix team as you fortify your global leadership in the newly defined digital adoption platform (DAP) category. Excited for you to take "Userization" of software applications to the next level for your enterprise customers while integrating the best that #GenAI has to offer! We @ Eight Roads Ventures feel privileged to have witnessed your scale-up journey and are excited to welcome our friends at Warburg, Narendra Ostawal and Varun Telaprolu onboard! Aditya Gurunath Systla Sanjay Aggarwal Sagar Sheth Diya Nayar Jyoti Kakatkar Hemal Gandhi Resham Savla https://lnkd.in/dxge9krt #indiaSaaS #digitaladoption #digitaltransformation #enterprisesaas
WhatFix raises a whopping $125M for its in-app user guides | TechCrunch
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NorthernArc Capital is now a public company! 🔔 🙌 An incredible day for P S Jayakumar, Ashish Mehrotra and the Northern Arc team as they keep building on the strong foundation of the business in terms of exceptional risk management and continuous learning from an enormous feedback loop to serve the credit requirements of millions of under-served households and businesses in India. #BuildForBharat On behalf of the entire team at Eight Roads Ventures India, it was a privilege for Kavish Kothari and I to attend the opening bell ceremony today. Eight Roads is honored to have had a front row seat and support the Company’s coming of age since our investment in 2016. Thanks also to our amazing partners here through the journey: Vijay Nallan Chakravarthi (Affirma Capital), Michael Fernandes (LeapFrog Investments), Umesh Agrawal & Sameer Nath (360 ONE), Samir Shah & Bindu Ananth (Dvara Holdings), Ratul Rana (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation – SMBC Group), John Fischer (Accion) Onwards and upwards for the next decade of growth and performance team Northern Arc!!! Kshama Fernandes Bama Balakrishnan, CFA® #NorthernArc #IPO #PublicCompany #India #FinancialServices #NBFC
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Our Nordic team are heading to Oslo Innovation Week 🙌✈ On Wednesday, hear from Martin Ericsson who will be discussing best practises to secure financing from international VCs 🌍👇 📅 Wednesday 25 September 2024, 4pm CET 💭 How to secure financing from leading international VCs 🛋 Panel: Magnus Gaarder (nFront Ventures) Marit Rødevand (CEO at Strise), Felicia Nordgård (Peak), Amanda Hultman (Atomico) We are also looking forward to co-hosting our annual drinks reception with our friends at Alliance VC 🥂 Reach out below for a coffee with our team Martin Ericsson and Tamina Fogelberg ☕ #OIW #VentureCapital #Nordics #Financing
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Last week, our India tech team brought together over 50 founders and ecosystem partners for an evening of ‘Conversations & Connections’ with experts who delved into their experience of building and scaling #consumerbrands. We kicked off the evening with a fireside chat with Dhyanesh Shah (Co-founder, Mosaic Wellness) who took the audience through the early years of building the company and the evolution of pricing, distribution, talent building all while placing key emphasis on brand positioning. This was followed by a very insightful panel discussion on using omni-channel distribution to #scaleup brands. We were joined by Praharsh Chandra (Co-founder and CBO, Shadowfax), and Karthik Gurumurthy (Ex-head, Swiggy Instamart), both senior leaders with rich operating experience in omni-channel distribution and a deep understanding of the ongoing #quickcommerce phenomenon. BIG thanks to our speakers and all the founders and ecosystem partners who were able to join us. Shweta Bhatia, Aditya Gurunath Systla, Kavish Kothari, Abhishek Jain, Saumya Birla #scaleup #startup #DirectToConsumer #digitalcommerce
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