Eight Roads

Eight Roads is a global venture capital firm headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, and serves as the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International Limited. Established in 1969, the firm manages approximately $11 billion in assets and has offices in the UK, China, India, Japan, and the US. Eight Roads focuses its investments primarily on the healthcare and technology sectors, leveraging a 50-year history of partnerships with over 500 companies. The firm aims to identify and support innovative businesses across various regions, including Asia, Europe, Israel, and the United States.

Alokik Advani

Managing Partner, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures

Daniel Auerbach

Senior Managing Partner, Asia

Vytautas Balsys

Partner, Portfolio Management and Business Operations

Virginia Bassano

Vice President

Shirish Belapure

Venture Partner

Shweta Bhatia

Partner and and Head of Technology, Consumer and Financial Services, India

Bhushan Bopardikar

Vice President

Betty Cai

Partner

Arvind Chari

Vice President

Ted Chua

Partner

Lucile Cornet

Partner

Raj Dugar

Managing Partner, Asia

Davor Hebel

Partner, Head of Europe Ventures

Tao Huang

Principal

Zang Jialun

Partner

Deepak Kanvinde

Venture Partner

Shinichiro Komoto

Partner

Kavish Kothari

Vice President

Rebecca Lin

Partner

Xin Liu

Partner

Chersy Miao

Senior Associate

Dan O'Toole

Vice President

Yosuke Ouchi

Principal

Eyal Rabinovich

Principal

Shawn Shen

Partner

Lei Shi Ph.D

Partner

Prakhar Singh

Vice President

Liena Suzuki

Vice President

Aditya Gurunath Systla

Principal

Michael Treskow

Partner

Jarlon Tsang

Managing Partner, Head of China

Ashish Venkataramani

Partner

Cody Yin Ph.D

Partner

Zhang Yixiao

Executive Director

Alston Zecha

FinTech and Enterprise Software and Director

Gordon Zhang

Vice President and Principal

Feng Zhao

Partner

Prem Pavoor

Partner

Weimin Liu Ph.D

Partner

Past deals in Advertising

Doceree

Series B in 2023
Doceree Inc is a healthcare marketing technology company that operates a programmatic physician engagement and advertising platform. Founded in 2019 and based in Parsippany, New Jersey, with an additional office in New Delhi, India, Doceree specializes in connecting pharmaceutical and healthcare brands with healthcare professionals (HCPs). The platform enables targeted advertising and provides data analytics to help clients effectively reach and engage with HCPs in a compliant manner. Utilizing artificial intelligence and data segmentation, Doceree identifies specific HCPs across various digital platforms, including physician networking sites, medical journals, and telemedicine platforms. This approach allows healthcare industry professionals to deliver precise and transparent messaging at scale, catering to the needs of media agencies, pharmaceutical brands, medical device companies, consumer healthcare brands, and hospitals.

Doceree

Series A in 2022
Doceree Inc is a healthcare marketing technology company that operates a programmatic physician engagement and advertising platform. Founded in 2019 and based in Parsippany, New Jersey, with an additional office in New Delhi, India, Doceree specializes in connecting pharmaceutical and healthcare brands with healthcare professionals (HCPs). The platform enables targeted advertising and provides data analytics to help clients effectively reach and engage with HCPs in a compliant manner. Utilizing artificial intelligence and data segmentation, Doceree identifies specific HCPs across various digital platforms, including physician networking sites, medical journals, and telemedicine platforms. This approach allows healthcare industry professionals to deliver precise and transparent messaging at scale, catering to the needs of media agencies, pharmaceutical brands, medical device companies, consumer healthcare brands, and hospitals.

AppsFlyer

Series D in 2020
AppsFlyer Ltd. is a mobile app measurement platform that assists app developers, brands, and advertising agencies in optimizing their mobile customer acquisition strategies through a real-time dashboard. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, the company has expanded its presence with offices in major cities worldwide, including London, San Francisco, and Tokyo. AppsFlyer's platform integrates with numerous media partners, allowing advertisers to track and measure the effectiveness of their mobile app promotional campaigns across various sources, such as paid, organic, and social channels. The company's analytics tools empower marketers to enhance their campaigns, while solutions like Ad Revenue Attribution and Agency Transparency offer insights into revenue sources and campaign performance. Additionally, AppsFlyer provides Protect360, a robust fraud protection system, ensuring data integrity and user privacy. With a commitment to improving customer experiences, AppsFlyer supports a wide array of applications on platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play, serving over 10,000 technology partners globally.

Candee

Series B in 2017
Candee Inc. is a Tokyo-based production company specializing in online video production, talent management, and advertising services. Founded in 2015, the company offers a range of services including video editing, branding, digital marketing, and public relations. Candee operates an online platform that focuses on creating advertising and media videos tailored for mobile content, allowing businesses to effectively promote their brands and manage talent through engaging video content.

AppsFlyer

Series C in 2017
AppsFlyer Ltd. is a mobile app measurement platform that assists app developers, brands, and advertising agencies in optimizing their mobile customer acquisition strategies through a real-time dashboard. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, the company has expanded its presence with offices in major cities worldwide, including London, San Francisco, and Tokyo. AppsFlyer's platform integrates with numerous media partners, allowing advertisers to track and measure the effectiveness of their mobile app promotional campaigns across various sources, such as paid, organic, and social channels. The company's analytics tools empower marketers to enhance their campaigns, while solutions like Ad Revenue Attribution and Agency Transparency offer insights into revenue sources and campaign performance. Additionally, AppsFlyer provides Protect360, a robust fraud protection system, ensuring data integrity and user privacy. With a commitment to improving customer experiences, AppsFlyer supports a wide array of applications on platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play, serving over 10,000 technology partners globally.

Notonthehighstreet

Series E in 2016
Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind the people that make them. Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are. Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation. With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.

Kaizen Platform

Series B in 2016
Kaizen Platform, Inc. is a marketing technology company that provides an online platform for brands, agencies, and freelancers to enhance digital customer experiences. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Tokyo, the company offers a suite of solutions, including Kaizen, its enterprise marketing solution that integrates multichannel marketing collaboration with creative services from a network of designers and copywriters. Kaizen Ad, a key component, specializes in video advertising, delivering high-quality video ads rapidly and effectively through a global network of experienced professionals. The platform supports various sectors such as retail, finance, travel, education, and healthcare, enabling users to optimize their marketing strategies, personalize content, and automate processes for better performance. Kaizen Platform also provides training in digital transformation and offers tools to streamline marketing efforts, making it a comprehensive resource for enhancing customer engagement across digital channels.

Kaizen Platform

Series A in 2015
Kaizen Platform, Inc. is a marketing technology company that provides an online platform for brands, agencies, and freelancers to enhance digital customer experiences. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Tokyo, the company offers a suite of solutions, including Kaizen, its enterprise marketing solution that integrates multichannel marketing collaboration with creative services from a network of designers and copywriters. Kaizen Ad, a key component, specializes in video advertising, delivering high-quality video ads rapidly and effectively through a global network of experienced professionals. The platform supports various sectors such as retail, finance, travel, education, and healthcare, enabling users to optimize their marketing strategies, personalize content, and automate processes for better performance. Kaizen Platform also provides training in digital transformation and offers tools to streamline marketing efforts, making it a comprehensive resource for enhancing customer engagement across digital channels.

AppsFlyer

Series B in 2015
AppsFlyer Ltd. is a mobile app measurement platform that assists app developers, brands, and advertising agencies in optimizing their mobile customer acquisition strategies through a real-time dashboard. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, the company has expanded its presence with offices in major cities worldwide, including London, San Francisco, and Tokyo. AppsFlyer's platform integrates with numerous media partners, allowing advertisers to track and measure the effectiveness of their mobile app promotional campaigns across various sources, such as paid, organic, and social channels. The company's analytics tools empower marketers to enhance their campaigns, while solutions like Ad Revenue Attribution and Agency Transparency offer insights into revenue sources and campaign performance. Additionally, AppsFlyer provides Protect360, a robust fraud protection system, ensuring data integrity and user privacy. With a commitment to improving customer experiences, AppsFlyer supports a wide array of applications on platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play, serving over 10,000 technology partners globally.

Kaizen Platform

Series A in 2014
Kaizen Platform, Inc. is a marketing technology company that provides an online platform for brands, agencies, and freelancers to enhance digital customer experiences. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Tokyo, the company offers a suite of solutions, including Kaizen, its enterprise marketing solution that integrates multichannel marketing collaboration with creative services from a network of designers and copywriters. Kaizen Ad, a key component, specializes in video advertising, delivering high-quality video ads rapidly and effectively through a global network of experienced professionals. The platform supports various sectors such as retail, finance, travel, education, and healthcare, enabling users to optimize their marketing strategies, personalize content, and automate processes for better performance. Kaizen Platform also provides training in digital transformation and offers tools to streamline marketing efforts, making it a comprehensive resource for enhancing customer engagement across digital channels.

Notonthehighstreet

Series D in 2013
Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind the people that make them. Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are. Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation. With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.

Yoyi Digital

Series C in 2012
Yoyi Digital is the leading platform in multi-screen programmatic buying in China. With the vision of focusing on data and technology, Yoyi Digital is leading the transformation in display ads from media buying to audience buying. At present, Yoyi has successfully completed four rounds of financing. The investors include Oak Investment Partner , Gobi Partners, Fidelity Investments, NewQuest Capital Partners, and Guangzhou Daily. Since its establishment, Yoyi has been always leading the development of programmatic buying industry. With data and technology advantages, Yoyi launched the first DSP in China which based on Real Time Biding(RTB), and also the first to bring the concept of cross-screen programmatic buying in China. In 2014, Yoyi launched Databank, China’s first real-meaning DMP, which helps advertisers on collecting, analyzing, managing, and acting on this first-party data from advertisers’ website and app as well as third-party data assembled by Yoyi and other data providers. Furthermore, Yoyi took the lead in entering the OTT indursty, launched the programmatic TV platform, established Big Data Lab by cooperating with Hisense, a Chinese famous Smart TV manufacturer,realising the data and platform integration, thus to provide more creative OTT solutions to advertisers. Yoyi is also the only DSP platform that cross multi-screens including PC, mobile,video and OTT. Based on Yoyi’s proprietary audience data and advanced advertising technology, Yoyi is able to deliver the right ads to the right audience through right screen at right time, thus greatly enhancing user experience and advertising effectiveness at the same time. Yoyi Digital provides both branding and performance solutions for over 1000 global and local brands, including Coco Cola, Budweiser, Audi, Toyota, Sumsang, Haier, Shell and Kimberly etc. Yoyi was been selected as the Red Herring 100 Global Winner, one of the technology industry's most respected awards, and also awarded the Most influential advertising company on Ad Stars Festival in Busan. Yoyi Digital was also the first ad tech company in China which been invited to give speech at Cannes Lions in France. With such strong influence,Yoyi Digital is continuously driving the revolution of digital marketing in China. Yoyi Digital is based in Beijing with branches in Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Notonthehighstreet

Series D in 2012
Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind the people that make them. Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are. Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation. With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.

Crystal CG

Venture Round in 2008
Crystal CG Ltd. is a provider of visual creative solutions, specializing in 3D visual development and application across various sectors. Founded in 1995 and based in Beijing, the company offers services in architectural visualization, commercial property promotion, exhibition displays, and film and media production. Its capabilities extend to audio-video integrated applications and digital city platforms, catering to theme exhibitions, events, and advertising. Crystal CG also engages in research and development, design, planning, and production of film and television special effects, animation, and cartoon animation. The company operates in multiple cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Los Angeles, and aims to deliver integrated digital graphics solutions that support clients in achieving their goals in publicity, communication, and entertainment.
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