Eight Roads Ventures

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm and the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International Limited. With offices in London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Mumbai, and other locations, it invests across Europe, Asia, and North America in technology-driven companies. The firm targets sectors including software and services, healthcare IT, information technology, FinTech, consumer and enterprise technology, e-commerce, and real estate tech linked to data. It backs start-ups and growth-stage companies from early to late stages, often leading rounds and, when appropriate, co-investing with other top firms; it seeks board seats in portfolio companies. Eight Roads manages about $11 billion in assets and has a five-decade history of supporting hundreds of companies worldwide, reflecting a track record across technology, health tech and related fields.

Umang Agarwal

Principal

Hiroki Ashida

Vice President

Daniel Auerbach

Senior Managing Partner, Asia

Vytautas Balsys

Partner

Helena Barman

Investor

Past deals in Storage Services

Odaseva

Series C in 2024
Odaseva is a company specializing in data management solutions for large enterprises utilizing Salesforce. It offers a comprehensive cloud-based platform that focuses on data protection, privacy, and governance. The Odaseva Enterprise Data Security Platform is designed to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical business information by providing integrated security products and services. Key features of the platform include backup and recovery, archiving, monitoring of governor limits, and compliance support for regulations such as GDPR. By enabling businesses to take full control of their data, Odaseva helps eliminate risks and facilitates confident digital transformation.

Cloudian

Venture Round in 2023
Cloudian is a company that specializes in file and object storage, particularly focusing on S3 object storage within data centers. It offers a hybrid cloud data management platform that allows customers to optimize data access, meet data sovereignty requirements, and reduce costs by consolidating information into a single, cloud-like environment. Cloudian's platform provides scalable and secure object storage for hybrid cloud deployments, enabling organizations to effectively manage and protect their data both on-premises and in the cloud. With its emphasis on data durability and user-friendly management tools, Cloudian aims to transform enterprise data into actionable insights while ensuring compatibility with the industry-standard S3 API.

Lingtan Intelligent Technology

Seed Round in 2022
Lingtan Intelligent Technology specializes in the development of innovative and sustainable distributed energy storage products and services. The company is dedicated to researching and developing hardware and software for energy storage systems, as well as virtual power plant trading platforms. Lingtan aims to provide energy storage-based solutions tailored for various industrial and commercial markets, including factories, commercial buildings, charging stations, and data centers. Through its focus on advanced technology, the company seeks to enhance energy efficiency and sustainability across multiple sectors.

TenaFe

Series B in 2021
TenaFe develops SSD controller technology for data storage solutions across client devices, data centers, and emerging edge environments. Based in Campbell, California, the company relies on patented technology to deliver reliability, performance, and energy-efficient SSDs for devices ranging from connected gadgets to personal computers and data centers, enabling improved storage reliability and energy efficiency.

Odaseva

Series B in 2020
Odaseva is a company specializing in data management solutions for large enterprises utilizing Salesforce. It offers a comprehensive cloud-based platform that focuses on data protection, privacy, and governance. The Odaseva Enterprise Data Security Platform is designed to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical business information by providing integrated security products and services. Key features of the platform include backup and recovery, archiving, monitoring of governor limits, and compliance support for regulations such as GDPR. By enabling businesses to take full control of their data, Odaseva helps eliminate risks and facilitates confident digital transformation.

TenaFe

Series A in 2020
TenaFe develops SSD controller technology for data storage solutions across client devices, data centers, and emerging edge environments. Based in Campbell, California, the company relies on patented technology to deliver reliability, performance, and energy-efficient SSDs for devices ranging from connected gadgets to personal computers and data centers, enabling improved storage reliability and energy efficiency.

MayaData

Venture Round in 2020
MayaData, Inc. is a developer of virtualized file and block storage software solutions specifically designed for private cloud, backup, file sharing, and archival applications. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional offices in Reading, United Kingdom, and Bengaluru, India, the company offers products such as ElastiStor 2.0, a ZFS-based storage solution that enhances management and performance in cloud environments, and OpenEBS.io, an open-source project focused on containerized storage. MayaData's MDAP commercial offering facilitates the adoption of stateful workloads in Kubernetes environments, leveraging OpenEBS and other tools to provide developers and DevOps teams with the ability to manage their own storage seamlessly across various deployment scenarios. Additionally, the company manufactures a range of appliances, including ElastiStor FX-2, FX-4, A50, and A10, designed for easy integration into diverse virtualization environments.

Cloudian

Series E in 2018
Cloudian is a company that specializes in file and object storage, particularly focusing on S3 object storage within data centers. It offers a hybrid cloud data management platform that allows customers to optimize data access, meet data sovereignty requirements, and reduce costs by consolidating information into a single, cloud-like environment. Cloudian's platform provides scalable and secure object storage for hybrid cloud deployments, enabling organizations to effectively manage and protect their data both on-premises and in the cloud. With its emphasis on data durability and user-friendly management tools, Cloudian aims to transform enterprise data into actionable insights while ensuring compatibility with the industry-standard S3 API.

Cloudian

Series D in 2016
Cloudian is a company that specializes in file and object storage, particularly focusing on S3 object storage within data centers. It offers a hybrid cloud data management platform that allows customers to optimize data access, meet data sovereignty requirements, and reduce costs by consolidating information into a single, cloud-like environment. Cloudian's platform provides scalable and secure object storage for hybrid cloud deployments, enabling organizations to effectively manage and protect their data both on-premises and in the cloud. With its emphasis on data durability and user-friendly management tools, Cloudian aims to transform enterprise data into actionable insights while ensuring compatibility with the industry-standard S3 API.

Blue Rhino (Lanxiniu)

Venture Round in 2015
Blue Rhino is a logistics and packaging service. They Move has always focused on service, with transparent online prices and a unified offline standard service system to provide users with a professional, worry-free, and moving experience. They provide professional and worry-free moving services to more than tens of millions of users.

Cloudian

Series C in 2014
Cloudian is a company that specializes in file and object storage, particularly focusing on S3 object storage within data centers. It offers a hybrid cloud data management platform that allows customers to optimize data access, meet data sovereignty requirements, and reduce costs by consolidating information into a single, cloud-like environment. Cloudian's platform provides scalable and secure object storage for hybrid cloud deployments, enabling organizations to effectively manage and protect their data both on-premises and in the cloud. With its emphasis on data durability and user-friendly management tools, Cloudian aims to transform enterprise data into actionable insights while ensuring compatibility with the industry-standard S3 API.

CloudByte

Series B in 2013
CloudByte provides containerized unified storage solutions to enterprises and service providers.

ownCloud

Venture Round in 2013
ownCloud, Inc. is a software company that specializes in developing a universal file access platform designed for secure data storage and collaboration. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, with additional international presence in Germany, the company provides a self-hosted file sync and share server. This platform allows organizations to access, manage, and share files across various devices, utilizing their own data centers or cloud storage while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. ownCloud offers solutions that include desktop clients for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, as well as mobile applications, enabling seamless collaboration among users. The company's services cater to various industries, including financial services, healthcare, government, and education, enabling them to maintain control over their data while facilitating efficient content collaboration. As the most downloaded open-source project for file sync and share, ownCloud emphasizes flexibility and security in data management.

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.
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