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Eight Roads
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Eight Roads is a global venture capital platform that has been investing since 1969, originally as Fidelity Ventures. It backs technology and healthcare founders and has partnerships with over 300 companies, with investment teams across Asia, Europe, Israel and the US.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechE-commerce & MarketplacesFintech
In its own wordstechnologyhealthcarefintechearly stageglobal
Your fit with Eight Roads
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Or find every investor that fitsEight Roads lists 28 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 13 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 46% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (28%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (15%) and Fintech (15%). It invests most often alongside F-Prime Capital, Rainmatter and 3one4 Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Eight Roads, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Eight Roads' whole history. Rounds on record name 13 companies; its own site lists 28. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 15% |
| Series B | 46% |
| Growth | 39% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 2 | 1 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 5 | 1 |
| '26 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 65th | 28 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 70th | 7% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 46th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 96th | 11 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 28% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 15% | 6% |
| Fintech | 15% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 10% | 18% |
| Education | 8% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
| Human Resources | 3% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| F-Prime Capital | 9 |
| Rainmatter | 3 |
| 3one4 Capital | 2 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 2 |
| 3E Bioventures Capital | 1 |
| ABio-X | 1 |
| Accel | 1 |
| AdvantEdge Founders | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers28100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Eight Roads head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Eight Roads| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Series B | |
| 8 Jun 2026 | Series B | |
| 19 Jan 2026 | Series B | |
| 14 Jan 2026 | Series B | |
| 11 Nov 2025 | Series B | |
| 14 Oct 2025 | Series C+ | |
| 16 Sept 2025 | Series C+ |
Round details for Eight Roads
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Eight Roads' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
28 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABK Biomedical develops and commercializes medical device technologies to treat cancer | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Adaptimmune is involved in cell therapies against cancer. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Adcentrx Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on accelerating breakthroughs in developing protein conjugate therapeutics for cancer and other life-threatening diseases. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Akulaku provides financial services, including installment payments and cash loans, to its users. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Amenitiz provides an all-in-one hotel management system for independent hotels | Legal & ComplianceReal Estate & Construction | Nov 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Aperza supports the digital transformation of sales and marketing for manufacturing industries | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Arnatar Therapeutics develops RNA medicines to treat various diseases, including cardiometabolic, liver, CNS, and kidney diseases. | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Asobica provides a platform to collect and visualize customer feedback, helping businesses make data-driven decisions and transform their relationship with customers. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| AssetPlus assists users with mutual fund investing and planning their investments to achieve financial goals | Fintech | Jan 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Avencell develops next generation immunotherapies for hard-to-treat cancers | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides AI-powered logistics and supply chain management services | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| b-ONE Ortho delivers innovative joint reconstruction solutions designed by leading surgeons to improve patient outcomes and restore mobility. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BankBazaar provides various financial services and products, including credit cards, loans, and investments. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company operates hospice residences and provides nursing and care services. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bhanzu provides online math courses with personalized guidance for students. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Binfinity operates a marketplace and provides account services | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company is a high-tech enterprise mainly engaged in the research, development, production and sales of biological medical materials and other products. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BlissClub sells functional apparel for women and men. | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI platform for experience businesses to manage their operations, including website design, bookings, sales, payments, marketing, and customer support. | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Oct 2026Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- eightroads.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 16 Jun 2021
- Companies checked
- 28
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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