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Eight Roads Ventures

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Total investments 540
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$25M
Portfolio companies 362
Rounds per year 9.82
Lead investments 155
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 77
Key employees 15
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
  • SaaS
Summary

Eight Roads Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1994. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Eight Roads Ventures, startups are often financed by IDG Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, ITOCHU Technology Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Greycroft, Accel, SMBC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, General Catalyst, SBI Investment.

This Eight Roads Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2017. When the investment is from Eight Roads Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually.

We also calculated 20 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Alibaba, WuXi AppTec, iSoftStone. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Medical.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arnatar Therapeutics

$50M09 Apr 2024 San Diego, California, United States

Owl Data Solutions

$58M28 Mar 2024 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

OWL

$157M19 Mar 2024 Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

HiLabs

$39M14 Mar 2024 -

EurekaBio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$46M21 Feb 2024 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Exponent Energy

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
$26M14 Dec 2023 Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Eleos Health

Health Care
$40M08 Nov 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Sonosemi Medical

Health Diagnostics
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$30M26 Oct 2023 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

AlphaGen Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
18 Oct 2023 Shanghai, Shanghai, China
News
ShouTi Secures $100 Million Series B Financing to Accelerate Development of Life-Changing Medicines Fueled by Advanced Computational, Structure-Based Drug Design Platform

– ShouTi Inc. announced the close of a $100m Series B financing round.
– The round was led by BVF Partners. Additional new investors include Casdin Capital, Cormorant Asset Management, Janus Henderson Investors, Lilly Asia Ventures, Monashee Capital, Sage Partners, Stork Capital, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), TCG X, Terra Magnum Capital Partners, Woodline Partners, and co-founder and strategic partner Schrödinger.
– Existing investors also participated in the financing, including Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital Partners, Qiming Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital China, TF Capital and Wuxi AppTec.

Walnut Raises $15M in Series A Funding

– Walnut is a NYC-based sales experience platform provider.
– The company raised $15m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Eight Roads Ventures.
– The new funding will be used to expand the team, develop the technology and platform.

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Total investments 540
Average round size 25M
Rounds per year 9.82
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 155
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 77
Group Appearance index 0.76

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Arnatar Therapeutics

$50M09 Apr 2024 San Diego, California, United States

Owl Data Solutions

$58M28 Mar 2024 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

OWL

$157M19 Mar 2024 Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

HiLabs

$39M14 Mar 2024 -

EurekaBio

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$46M21 Feb 2024 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Exponent Energy

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
$26M14 Dec 2023 Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Eleos Health

Health Care
$40M08 Nov 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Sonosemi Medical

Health Diagnostics
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$30M26 Oct 2023 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

AlphaGen Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
18 Oct 2023 Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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