Eight Roads Ventures

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm and the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International Limited (FIL). It targets technology-enabled companies across stages from early venture to growth and late-stage, with a focus on healthcare IT, information technology, software and services, fintech, consumer and enterprise technology, telecommunications, and related sectors. It operates internationally with offices in Europe (London) and Asia (Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Mumbai, Bengaluru) and partnerships in Israel, Singapore, and the United States, reflecting a broad geographic scope. It typically invests between modest seven-figures to tens of millions of dollars, seeks to lead or co-lead and often takes a board seat, supporting portfolio companies with strategic and operational expertise. The firm emphasizes long-standing partnerships and a hands-on approach, backed by FIL’s resources.

Umang Agarwal

Principal

Hiroki Ashida

Vice President

Daniel Auerbach

Senior Managing Partner, Asia

Vytautas Balsys

Partner

Helena Barman

Investor

Past deals in Data Visualization

Lighthouse

Series C in 2024
Lighthouse is a commercial platform tailored for the travel and hospitality industry, specializing in hotel management solutions. The company offers a cloud-based platform that visualizes and leverages data to enhance business success. By providing actionable market insights and business intelligence tools, Lighthouse enables hoteliers and hotel management companies to make informed revenue and distribution decisions. Its services include real-time data analytics, which empower users to maximize property occupancy rates and increase revenue and profit. Formerly known as OTA Insight, Lighthouse aims to transform complex market dynamics into manageable strategies that foster growth in the hospitality sector.

HiLabs

Series B in 2024
HiLabs is a developer of a healthcare data mining platform that aims to enhance data-driven decision-making within healthcare organizations. By leveraging artificial intelligence, HiLabs empowers employees to explore their data intuitively, uncover novel insights, and interact with data visualizations. The platform allows users to customize dashboards and generate new attributes, thus enhancing their ability to understand and utilize client health data effectively. HiLabs recognizes that healthcare providers possess vital domain knowledge but often lack the necessary tools to extract meaningful insights from their data. Through its innovative solutions, HiLabs bridges this gap, enabling healthcare organizations to harness their data more efficiently and improve overall decision-making processes.

ProcessOn

Series A in 2022
ProcessOn is a developer of online diagramming and collaboration tools that facilitate the creation of flowcharts, mind maps, BPMN, UML diagrams, and more. The platform serves as a social network for business processes, enabling users to collaborate in real-time on diagram creation and sharing. This functionality allows teams to visualize complex ideas and processes collectively, thereby enhancing understanding and retention of abstract concepts. In addition to its primary mapping tool, ProcessOn offers Little Drawing Table, a visual collaboration whiteboard software that supports brainstorming and client discussions on a single digital canvas. This dual approach not only provides mapping capabilities but also fosters a community where users can share knowledge and access a diverse database of diagrams.

Lighthouse

Series B in 2021
Lighthouse is a commercial platform tailored for the travel and hospitality industry, specializing in hotel management solutions. The company offers a cloud-based platform that visualizes and leverages data to enhance business success. By providing actionable market insights and business intelligence tools, Lighthouse enables hoteliers and hotel management companies to make informed revenue and distribution decisions. Its services include real-time data analytics, which empower users to maximize property occupancy rates and increase revenue and profit. Formerly known as OTA Insight, Lighthouse aims to transform complex market dynamics into manageable strategies that foster growth in the hospitality sector.

Funnel

Series C in 2021
Founded in 2014 by Fredrik Skantze and Per Made, Funnel is a software company specializing in marketing analytics. It integrates with over 400 data sources to automate data collection from various advertising platforms, catering to e-commerce companies, media agencies, brands, B2B businesses, mobile apps, and gaming companies.

Planck

Venture Round in 2021
Planck is a commercial insurance data platform that enhances the underwriting process for insurers through advanced technology and artificial intelligence. The platform aggregates extensive datasets to provide real-time analytics and insights, streamlining the assessment of risks associated with businesses. By automating the completion of ACORD forms and leveraging publicly available data, image processing, and company reports, Planck facilitates accurate and efficient underwriting. This approach minimizes the potential for fraud and errors, ultimately helping insurance providers to develop tailored policies and reduce loss ratios. Through its innovative solutions, Planck aims to transform the way insurance companies evaluate and underwrite risks in the commercial sector.

Kyligence

Series D in 2021
Kyligence Inc. specializes in big data analytics, offering an intelligent data platform that simplifies analysis from on-premises to cloud environments. Its flagship product is the Kyligence Analytics Platform, providing sub-second query latency and simplified analytics for business users. Additionally, it offers KyBot for monitoring and optimizing performance, and Apache Kylin, an open-source distributed analytics engine supporting large datasets.

HRBrain

Funding Round in 2020
HRBrain, Inc. is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in providing cloud-based human resource evaluation services. It operates an online platform designed to streamline the management and assessment of employee goals, offering centralized management of human resource data, personal evaluations, and organizational structure analysis. The platform enables businesses to visualize and analyze accumulated evaluation data, facilitating effective personnel evaluation and management of interview logs and target sheets. By leveraging its technology, HRBrain assists companies and HR professionals in developing strategic management measures to enhance workforce performance.

Planck

Series B in 2020
Planck is a commercial insurance data platform that enhances the underwriting process for insurers through advanced technology and artificial intelligence. The platform aggregates extensive datasets to provide real-time analytics and insights, streamlining the assessment of risks associated with businesses. By automating the completion of ACORD forms and leveraging publicly available data, image processing, and company reports, Planck facilitates accurate and efficient underwriting. This approach minimizes the potential for fraud and errors, ultimately helping insurance providers to develop tailored policies and reduce loss ratios. Through its innovative solutions, Planck aims to transform the way insurance companies evaluate and underwrite risks in the commercial sector.

Medallia Digital Experience Analytics

Series B in 2020
Decibel Insight Limited offers an online platform designed to analyze user behavior on websites and applications, helping enterprise businesses enhance the customer experience at various digital touchpoints. The company utilizes machine learning technology to process a wide array of behavioral metrics, such as mouse movements and error occurrences, providing insights through features like heatmaps, session replays, form analytics, and detailed performance reports. Decibel's solutions, available both on-premise and as Software as a Service (SaaS), cater to industries including eCommerce, finance, media, and travel. Established in 2013 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Denver and Boston, Decibel serves major brands like Lego, General Motors, and British Airways, enabling them to identify opportunities for improvement and foster a customer-centric approach within their organizations.

Funnel

Series B in 2020
Founded in 2014 by Fredrik Skantze and Per Made, Funnel is a software company specializing in marketing analytics. It integrates with over 400 data sources to automate data collection from various advertising platforms, catering to e-commerce companies, media agencies, brands, B2B businesses, mobile apps, and gaming companies.

ForceClouds

Series B in 2019
ForceClouds is a developer of enterprise software designed to enhance information automation in a simple, safe, efficient, and compliant manner. The company focuses on providing custom integration capabilities that streamline various processes, including sales management, clinical trials, and the management of big data and artificial intelligence. By enabling large life sciences companies to harness actionable insights from their process data, ForceClouds aims to improve operational efficiency and decision-making within the industry.

Medallia Digital Experience Analytics

Series B in 2019
Decibel Insight Limited offers an online platform designed to analyze user behavior on websites and applications, helping enterprise businesses enhance the customer experience at various digital touchpoints. The company utilizes machine learning technology to process a wide array of behavioral metrics, such as mouse movements and error occurrences, providing insights through features like heatmaps, session replays, form analytics, and detailed performance reports. Decibel's solutions, available both on-premise and as Software as a Service (SaaS), cater to industries including eCommerce, finance, media, and travel. Established in 2013 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Denver and Boston, Decibel serves major brands like Lego, General Motors, and British Airways, enabling them to identify opportunities for improvement and foster a customer-centric approach within their organizations.

Kyligence

Series C in 2019
Kyligence Inc. specializes in big data analytics, offering an intelligent data platform that simplifies analysis from on-premises to cloud environments. Its flagship product is the Kyligence Analytics Platform, providing sub-second query latency and simplified analytics for business users. Additionally, it offers KyBot for monitoring and optimizing performance, and Apache Kylin, an open-source distributed analytics engine supporting large datasets.

Kyligence

Series B in 2018
Kyligence Inc. specializes in big data analytics, offering an intelligent data platform that simplifies analysis from on-premises to cloud environments. Its flagship product is the Kyligence Analytics Platform, providing sub-second query latency and simplified analytics for business users. Additionally, it offers KyBot for monitoring and optimizing performance, and Apache Kylin, an open-source distributed analytics engine supporting large datasets.

Planck

Series A in 2018
Planck is a commercial insurance data platform that enhances the underwriting process for insurers through advanced technology and artificial intelligence. The platform aggregates extensive datasets to provide real-time analytics and insights, streamlining the assessment of risks associated with businesses. By automating the completion of ACORD forms and leveraging publicly available data, image processing, and company reports, Planck facilitates accurate and efficient underwriting. This approach minimizes the potential for fraud and errors, ultimately helping insurance providers to develop tailored policies and reduce loss ratios. Through its innovative solutions, Planck aims to transform the way insurance companies evaluate and underwrite risks in the commercial sector.

ForceClouds

Series A in 2018
ForceClouds is a developer of enterprise software designed to enhance information automation in a simple, safe, efficient, and compliant manner. The company focuses on providing custom integration capabilities that streamline various processes, including sales management, clinical trials, and the management of big data and artificial intelligence. By enabling large life sciences companies to harness actionable insights from their process data, ForceClouds aims to improve operational efficiency and decision-making within the industry.

Lighthouse

Venture Round in 2017
Lighthouse is a commercial platform tailored for the travel and hospitality industry, specializing in hotel management solutions. The company offers a cloud-based platform that visualizes and leverages data to enhance business success. By providing actionable market insights and business intelligence tools, Lighthouse enables hoteliers and hotel management companies to make informed revenue and distribution decisions. Its services include real-time data analytics, which empower users to maximize property occupancy rates and increase revenue and profit. Formerly known as OTA Insight, Lighthouse aims to transform complex market dynamics into manageable strategies that foster growth in the hospitality sector.

ForceClouds

Venture Round in 2017
ForceClouds is a developer of enterprise software designed to enhance information automation in a simple, safe, efficient, and compliant manner. The company focuses on providing custom integration capabilities that streamline various processes, including sales management, clinical trials, and the management of big data and artificial intelligence. By enabling large life sciences companies to harness actionable insights from their process data, ForceClouds aims to improve operational efficiency and decision-making within the industry.

Artemis Health

Series A in 2017
Artemis Health Inc. is a health data analytics company that specializes in providing self-insured employers with a comprehensive platform designed to optimize employee benefit programs. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, the company offers actionable insights into benefit programs, highlighting opportunities and gaps that enable employers to make informed decisions. Its platform allows users to identify issues within their benefits offerings, share insights with relevant stakeholders, and track the effectiveness of implemented solutions. By facilitating data-driven decision-making, Artemis Health helps employers enhance their programs while effectively managing healthcare expenditures and improving overall employee health and wellness coverage.

Medallia Digital Experience Analytics

Series A in 2017
Decibel Insight Limited offers an online platform designed to analyze user behavior on websites and applications, helping enterprise businesses enhance the customer experience at various digital touchpoints. The company utilizes machine learning technology to process a wide array of behavioral metrics, such as mouse movements and error occurrences, providing insights through features like heatmaps, session replays, form analytics, and detailed performance reports. Decibel's solutions, available both on-premise and as Software as a Service (SaaS), cater to industries including eCommerce, finance, media, and travel. Established in 2013 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Denver and Boston, Decibel serves major brands like Lego, General Motors, and British Airways, enabling them to identify opportunities for improvement and foster a customer-centric approach within their organizations.

Gu360.com

Series C in 2015
Gu360 is a stock analysis and prediction platform. With the help of network information and viewpoint analysis technology services, it covers industries such as stocks, foreign exchange, futures, and funds in its stock list. To improve stock tracking and foster social interaction, investors can subscribe to self-selected stock information on the stock radar, including dynamic information like news, research reports, Weibo, stock bars, expert trading, analysis, and comments. Gu360 incorporates the stock market sentiment analysis technology that is the company's main technological offering.

Cloudant

Venture Round in 2012
Cloudant is a provider of distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) that enables developers of web and mobile applications to concentrate on product development without the complexities of database management and scaling. Founded in 2008 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by three physicists from MIT, Cloudant was born out of a need for better tools to manage and analyze large datasets encountered in their research. The company built a fault-tolerant and globally scalable data layer on top of Apache CouchDB, addressing the challenges of handling Big Data. Since its inception, Cloudant has expanded its services and now supports thousands of developers and numerous clients worldwide by managing and serving application data efficiently.

GoodData

Series C in 2012
GoodData Corporation is a SaaS-based provider of business intelligence and analytics solutions, established in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in the Czech Republic. The company offers an open analytics platform that addresses data governance, security, and self-service data discovery for business users. Its platform consolidates data from various sources, both within organizations and in the cloud, and includes tools for data integration, warehousing, and automation. GoodData provides a range of BI solutions that encompass enterprise analytics across sales, marketing, and service sectors, among others. Additionally, the company supports its clients with services such as training, support, and consulting. GoodData serves a diverse clientele across industries including e-commerce, financial services, media, and technology, helping enterprises automate and enhance data-driven decision-making processes.

GoodData

Series B in 2011
GoodData Corporation is a SaaS-based provider of business intelligence and analytics solutions, established in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in the Czech Republic. The company offers an open analytics platform that addresses data governance, security, and self-service data discovery for business users. Its platform consolidates data from various sources, both within organizations and in the cloud, and includes tools for data integration, warehousing, and automation. GoodData provides a range of BI solutions that encompass enterprise analytics across sales, marketing, and service sectors, among others. Additionally, the company supports its clients with services such as training, support, and consulting. GoodData serves a diverse clientele across industries including e-commerce, financial services, media, and technology, helping enterprises automate and enhance data-driven decision-making processes.

GoodData

Series A in 2010
GoodData Corporation is a SaaS-based provider of business intelligence and analytics solutions, established in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in the Czech Republic. The company offers an open analytics platform that addresses data governance, security, and self-service data discovery for business users. Its platform consolidates data from various sources, both within organizations and in the cloud, and includes tools for data integration, warehousing, and automation. GoodData provides a range of BI solutions that encompass enterprise analytics across sales, marketing, and service sectors, among others. Additionally, the company supports its clients with services such as training, support, and consulting. GoodData serves a diverse clientele across industries including e-commerce, financial services, media, and technology, helping enterprises automate and enhance data-driven decision-making processes.

GoodData

Venture Round in 2010
GoodData Corporation is a SaaS-based provider of business intelligence and analytics solutions, established in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in the Czech Republic. The company offers an open analytics platform that addresses data governance, security, and self-service data discovery for business users. Its platform consolidates data from various sources, both within organizations and in the cloud, and includes tools for data integration, warehousing, and automation. GoodData provides a range of BI solutions that encompass enterprise analytics across sales, marketing, and service sectors, among others. Additionally, the company supports its clients with services such as training, support, and consulting. GoodData serves a diverse clientele across industries including e-commerce, financial services, media, and technology, helping enterprises automate and enhance data-driven decision-making processes.
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