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Eight Roads Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 1969 · Active in 2026

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73 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #78 · Global · 73 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 29% 5y
53
Decacorns ↑ 20% 5y
6
Thoroughbreds ↑ 76% 5y
47

Eight Roads Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, Bermuda, founded in 1969. The page below shows 73 Power Law outcomes from Eight Roads Ventures's portfolio — 53 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 10 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · Fintech · Health Tech & Medtech; top portfolio geographies are USA · China · UK. Eight Roads ranks #78 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 73 Eight Roads Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA42
  2. China11
  3. UK5
  4. India4
  5. France3
  6. Germany2
  7. Switzerland1
  8. Spain1
  9. Indonesia1
  10. Norway1
  11. Türkiye1
  12. Japan1
By sectorCount
  1. Biotech & Life Sciences30
  2. Fintech12
  3. Health Tech & Medtech8
  4. Other B2B Software6
  5. Other5
  6. Transportation3
  7. eCommerce & Marketplaces3
  8. Cybersecurity2
  9. Marketing2
  10. AI1
  11. Energy1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+45
  2. Series A15
  3. Seed6
01 · Portfolio market map

Eight Roads's 73 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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73 of 73 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where Eight Roads's founders come from — and where they study.

149 founders across the 73 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States36
Israel21
China18
India15
United Kingdom8
Spain7
Canada3
Denmark3
Germany3
Argentina3
+3 more →
UniversityCount
Massachusetts Institute of Technology11
HEC Paris5
Tel Aviv University5
Harvard University5
Tsinghua University4
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania4
Aarhus University3
Technion Israel Institute of Technology3
Bar-Ilan University3
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev3
+59 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft6
Endeca5
Alphabet | Google4
CRITEO3
Blend3
SAP3
OLX2
eBay2
Visma2
Yahoo!2
+53 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Eight Roads.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.
04 · Compare with peers

How does Eight Roads stack up?

Eight Roads in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Eight Roads Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Eight Roads on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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Latest news about Eight Roads Ventures

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