Eight Capital

Eight Capital Management LLC is a private equity firm focused on investing in distressed and special situation opportunities, primarily in India. Established in 2005, the firm specializes in restructuring and turnaround investments, aiming to take a controlling interest in the companies it supports. With its headquarters in New York and an additional office in Mumbai, Eight Capital is dedicated to identifying and capitalizing on unique investment opportunities within the Indian market. Its strategy emphasizes a hands-on approach to managing investments, allowing the firm to navigate complex financial challenges effectively.

Ravi Chachra

Co-Founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer

Indranil Das

Associate Director of Risk Management and Analytics

Vijay Lavhale

Associate

Sri Ram Pammasani

Associate

20 past transactions

Martello Technologies manages the performance of real-time services on complex distributed cloud networks. Their solutions, which include network performance management software as a service (SaaS) and SD WAN, allow over the top (OTT) service providers and enterprises around the world to deliver better service quality and a reliable user experience. Designed for real-time communications, Martello’s solutions detect, identify and address network performance problems BEFORE service quality is impacted.

MindMed

Post in 2020
Mind Medicine (MindMed) Inc., a psychedelic medicine biotech company, discovers, develops, and deploys psychedelic inspired medicines and therapies to address addiction and mental illness. The company is assembling a compelling drug development pipeline of innovative treatments based on psychedelic substances, including Psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, DMT, and an Ibogaine derivative, 18-MC. The company is headquartered in New York, New York.

Rivalry

Venture Round in 2021
We make esports even more fun by giving fans a trusted way to safely bet on matches.
Sherritt is one of the world’s largest producers of nickel from lateritic sources with operations in Canada, Cuba and Madagascar. They pride ourselves on being a leading low-cost producer that generates sustainable prosperity for their employees, investors and the communities in which they operate. They are also the largest independent energy producer in Cuba, with extensive oil and power operations across the island.

Progressa

Series B in 2018
Progressa is a direct-pay lending platform that helps Canadian individuals who are in debt pay back their due bills. It pays its users’ bills directly so that they are able to manage their debts, interest payments, and collections. The platform provides its users with partial payment loans between $1,000 and $15,000 with payback terms ranging from 6 to 60 months. It enables its users to get access to automated interest rate reductions every six months, helping them cut down borrowing costs with good payment behaviour.

Elemential

Private Placement in 2018
An open & accessible development platform to help future generations of blockchain innovators design, run & scale networks with exponentially lower overhead. We do for blockchain what Docker did for containerization.

MindMed

Post in 2021
Mind Medicine (MindMed) Inc., a psychedelic medicine biotech company, discovers, develops, and deploys psychedelic inspired medicines and therapies to address addiction and mental illness. The company is assembling a compelling drug development pipeline of innovative treatments based on psychedelic substances, including Psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, DMT, and an Ibogaine derivative, 18-MC. The company is headquartered in New York, New York.
Great Bear Resources is a Canadian precious metals exploration company engaged in advancing projects of special merit in leading mining jurisdictions. The company's focus is on projects that have unique combinations of geological merit, infrastructure advantages, and the capability to be rapidly advanced through resource definition and beyond. It was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

RIV Capital

Post in 2019
Canopy Rivers is a venture capital firm specializing in cannabis. Our mission is to invest in innovators to build the cannabis industry of tomorrow, today. But we do more than simply provide capital. Backed by our expertise, we bring our portfolio companies together to find benefits in each other’s strengths.

Ressy

Angel Round in 2015
Ressy is a location based real-time app for consumers to get discounts in their favorite restaurants. Customers can discover restaurants and discount deals in specific areas through Ressy. Ressy uses the customers location to show the best deals around them. The deals are real time that comes with a limited period of validity. That period ranges from a few hours to an entire day. Ressy will publish limited-time promotions and deals from popular restaurants. Ressy was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Pune, India.

Roscan Gold

Post in 2020
RosCan Gold Corporation engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of gold properties in West Africa. It holds five option agreements to acquire a 100% interest in six contiguous gold prospective permits covering 254 square kilometers located in Mali, West Africa. The company was formerly known as Roscan Minerals Corporation and changed its name to RosCan Gold Corporation in September 2018. RosCan Gold Corporation is headquartered in Bedford, Canada.

Burcon Nutrascience

Post in 2020
Burcon NutraScience Corporation, together with its subsidiary, develops plant proteins and ingredients for use in the food and beverage industries in Canada. The company's products include CLARISOY, a soy protein for use in sports nutrition beverages, dairy alternative yogurts and cheeses, powdered beverage mixes, coffee creamers, and other foods and nutritional products; and Peazazz, a pea protein for dairy alternative products, such as protein bars and crisps, weight management and meal replacement products, and vegetarian and vegan foods, as well as dry blended and ready-to-drink beverages. It also provides Supertein, a canola protein isolate for use in beverages, confectionery, aerated desserts, and protein bars; and Puratein, a canola protein isolate for use in baked goods, protein cereal bars, dressings, sauces, and meat substitutes. The company was formerly known as Burcon Capital Corp. and changed its name to Burcon NutraScience Corporation in October 1999. Burcon NutraScience Corporation was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

4Front

Venture Round in 2018
4Front is a cannabis company designed for long-term success and built upon battle-tested operating capabilities at scale, experienced and committed leadership, a strategic asset base, and a commitment to being a magnet for talent. From plant genetics to the cannabis retail experience, 4Front’s team applies expertise across the value chain. 4Front has invested to assemble a comprehensive collection of management skills and hands-on operating expertise to capitalize on the unique growth opportunity being afforded by the increased legalization of cannabis. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

Maana

Series C in 2017
MAANA, Inc. designs and develops industrial data analytics and digital knowledge technology software solutions. The company offers Maana Knowledge Platform, a knowledge-centric platform for operational problem solving; and Knowledge Graph, a platform for extracting knowledge from data and information sources for relationships within the context of an asset or process. It serves industrial field services and maintenance, sales, logistics, finance, risk and compliance sectors, and oil and gas sectors. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Palo Alto, California. It has additional offices in Bellevue, Washington; Houston, Texas; Houston, Texas; London, United Kingdom; and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
HashChain is a blockchain technology company. HashChain taps low-cost North American power, cool climate and high-speed Internet: the trifecta most critical to mining success, to create a competitive position for maximizing the number of mining 'wins.' HashChain currently operates 100 Dash mining Rigs, has purchased 770 Bitcoin Rigs and has entered into a purchase order for an additional 5,000 Rigs. Once all Rigs are operational HashChain will be consuming approximately 8.7 megawatts of power. HashChain also acquired a Dash Masternode for approximately USD $280,000 which requires a collateral investment of 1,000 Dash coins. NODE40 is an established blockchain technology company which comprises of two major segments including 1) Cryptocurrency accounting solution for cryptocurrency trading, 2) Masternode hosting services.