Martin Ericsson
VC and Growth Investor at Eight Roads Ventures
Martin is an investor in the Eight Roads Ventures Europe team. Originally from Sweden, Martin leads Eight Roads Ventures efforts in the Nordics and is focused on sourcing new investments and working with existing portfolio companies to help them scale. Martin joined the Eight Roads in 2016 from Lazard where he worked in the M&A TMT team.
Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm and in the past ten years Eight Roads has invested almost $6bn globally into growing companies. A 50-year history of investing includes partnerships with companies such as Alibaba, AppsFlyer, Compte Nickel, Cúram, Future Advisor, InnoGames, iPipeline, Kensho, Letgo, Made.com, Neo4j, Nuance, Ping Identity, Prosper, Treatwell, Recurly, Wallapop and Xoom. In Europe, Eight Roads Ventures recently launched a $375m technology fund and looks to invest between $10 – $30 million per company.