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Today, our portfolio company Lighthouse has announced a $370M Series C round led by KKR 🌟🥳 This significant funding will accelerate their mission to revolutionise commercial strategy in the $15 billion travel & hospitality tech market 🚀 ➡️ Lighthouse is the leading commercial intelligence platform for the travel & hospitality industry It’s suite of products provides revenue managers, commercial leaders, and accommodation owners with easy-to-use tools that drive incremental bookings, streamline operations, and enable a better customer experience for guests 🏡 Key highlights 👇 ⚡ 70,000+ hospitality providers use Lighthouse 🌍 700+ employees worldwide 📈 Processing over 400 terabytes of travel and market data daily 🤖 Leverages AI to deliver real-time insights that enable customers to make better and more efficient operational decisions Congratulations to CEO Sean Fitzpatrick and the entire Lighthouse team on this achievement 👏 We're excited to see Lighthouse continue to make hospitality data and tools more powerful, accessible, and affordable. Here's to the next chapter of growth and innovation 🌍💼 Read more here from Bloomberg with Swetha Gopinath ✍ https://lnkd.in/eaSpKX69 cc Michael Treskow, Lucile CORNET, F-Prime Capital, Gaurav Tuli, Spectrum Equity, and Highgate #Hospitality #VentureCapital #AI #BusinessIntelligence

💫 Congratulations to Lighthouse on your $370M Series C round 🥳 8 years of working together, and lots of fun along the way... 📸 Here's to many more exciting memories ahead 🧡 👫 Sean Fitzpatrick, Michael Treskow, Lucile CORNET, F-Prime Capital, Gaurav Tuli, Spectrum Equity, Highgate #Scaleup #Tech #VentureCapital #Europe

Today, our portfolio company Lighthouse has announced a $370M Series C round led by KKR 🌟🥳 This significant funding will accelerate their mission to revolutionise commercial strategy in the $15 billion travel & hospitality tech market 🚀 ➡️ Lighthouse is the leading commercial intelligence platform for the travel & hospitality industry It’s suite of products provides revenue managers, commercial leaders, and accommodation owners with easy-to-use tools that drive incremental bookings, streamline operations, and enable a better customer experience for guests 🏡 Key highlights 👇 ⚡ 70,000+ hospitality providers use Lighthouse 🌍 700+ employees worldwide 📈 Processing over 400 terabytes of travel and market data daily 🤖 Leverages AI to deliver real-time insights that enable customers to make better and more efficient operational decisions Congratulations to CEO Sean Fitzpatrick and the entire Lighthouse team on this achievement 👏 We're excited to see Lighthouse continue to make hospitality data and tools more powerful, accessible, and affordable. Here's to the next chapter of growth and innovation 🌍💼 Read more here from Bloomberg with Swetha Gopinath ✍ https://lnkd.in/eaSpKX69 cc Michael Treskow, Lucile CORNET, F-Prime Capital, Gaurav Tuli, Spectrum Equity, and Highgate #Hospitality #VentureCapital #AI #BusinessIntelligence

Neo4j, the world's leading graph database and analytics company, surpasses $200M in revenue, doubling its ARR over the past 3 years 🚀 The database pioneer continues to scale and is committed to improving generative AI accuracy and strengthening its cloud offering 🌍 We've been invested in Neo4j for over 13 years and we're excited to see what's next 👫 💸 Valued at $2.2 billion 🌟 800 employees 🫶 1700 global customers including Accenture, Cisco, eBay, Klarna and Walmart Congratulations to CEO Emil Eifrem and the wider Neo team. Read more about Neo's journey in TechCrunch with Kyle Wiggers ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ewD4RtWR #GenAI #GraphDatabase #Scaleup #EuropeanTech

Big news indeed for our partner company MoEngage 👏 Kudos to the team, this truly is testament to your efforts in building a world-class product 📲 MoEngage is an insights-led customer engagement platform trusted by more than 1,200 global consumer brands. 💻 The platform empowers marketers and product owners with insights into customer behaviour and the ability to act on those insights to engage customers across the web, mobile, email, social, and messaging channels. 🛍️ Consumer brands across 35 countries use MoEngage to power digital experiences for over 1 billion customers every month. Raviteja Dodda, Yashwanth Kumar #Startups #ScaleUps #Awards #Technology #Enterprisetech

Our portfolio company Kaiko, the leading cryptocurrency market data provider has acquired Vinter, Europe's largest crypto index provider 🪙 💸 This acquisition will enable Kaiko to meet the growing institutional demand for cryptocurrency indices following the successful launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. earlier this year 🌐 As the industry consolidates, Kaiko emerges as the only independent reference rate provider 👫 Kaiko already collaborates with major buy and sell-side players in North America and Europe, including Deutsche Börse, Bloomberg, Cboe Global Markets, and Bitstamp. 👉 Alston Zecha, Partner at Eight Roads, commented, "In recent years, Kaiko has experienced industry-leading growth and solidified its position as the gold standard for institutional-grade market data and regulated benchmarks for derivatives. With the Vinter acquisition, it's thrilling to witness a new chapter as Kaiko spearheads both industry consolidation and customer value creation through their combined product roadmap." cc Vinter, a Kaiko company 👏 Read the exclusive from Reuters for more details ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ebTEZTSr #Cryptocurrency #Data #Fintech #Scaleup

This week in London 🌆 we hosted a series of events with our Venture Partner Stephanie Robotham, who supports our portfolio with GTM strategies for sales, marketing, and customer success 📝 We discussed "B2B GTM in an increasingly competitive and saturated market" with London's top startup founders and VCs Some of our key takeaways? 🌟 Standing out and being creative with your GTM is crucial in today's market 🌟 Focusing solely on optimizing performance marketing and direct sales risks getting lost in the noise 🌟 Breaking down silos and integrating Sales, Marketing & Customer Success into a "flywheel" is more important than ever Thank you to all who joined and participated in many insightful discussions! CC Alston Zecha Dan O' Toole Virginia Bassano Tamina Fogelberg #SaaS #GTM #StartupGrowth #EightRoads

Congratulations to Lucy O'Brien, our Head of Talent at Eight Roads who has featured in the HIGHER Community Talent100 2024 🌟👇

Had a great time chatting with Cara Whitehill, Gilad Berenstein, Bobby Demri, and Beat Blaser re all things travel tech in Europe. Thanks for having me on the podcast!

Eight Roads hosted a special event this week with HumanX, bringing together 50+ AI leaders in Paris for a night of discussions on AI's future in Europe ✨ A big thank you to our special guests 🙏👇 🔹 Clara Chappaz, the French Secretary of State for AI 🔹 Roxanne VARZA and Loup Audouy from STATION F who joined us after organising the OpenAI hackathon day 🔹 AI leaders from Google DeepMind (Mehdi Ghissassi, Alan (Charles Gorintin), Owkin (Lionel Guillou), Dataiku (Sophie Dionnet), Bioptimus (Felipe Llinares-López), and Photoroom (Matt Rouif) HumanX and Eight Roads are committed to building stronger connections between the world’s AI hubs 🌍 🚀 Lucile CORNET, Antonin Gury-Coupier, Laura Salesse #AI #Europeantech #FutureOfAI #Innovation #Founders