# Michael Treskow

> Michael Treskow is a Series B investor at Eight Roads Ventures (London) backing Software and SaaS. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Eight Roads Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eight-roads-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 69%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeltreskow/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mtreskow
- Website: https://x.com/mtreskow

Michael Treskow is a Series B investor at Eight Roads Ventures in London focused on Software and SaaS. Michael Treskow is based out of London, England and is the partner of Eight Roads Ventures. Michael previously worked at Accel as a principal. Michael Treskow attended the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 38% |
| SaaS | 4 | 31% |
| Analytics | 4 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 31% |
| Hotel | 2 | 15% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 46% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Series C | 2 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 46% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lighthouse | Lighthouse is a commercial platform for the travel & hospitality industry. The company transforms complexity into confidence by providing actionable market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools that maximize revenue growth. Lighthouse was previously known as OTA Insight. | $370M | Series C | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Odaseva | At enterprise scale, Salesforce data is different. Data volumes are large. Data models are more sophisticated. Integrations, regulations, and business processes are much more intricate. All this complexity dramatically increases the risks to your data threatening to grind business to a halt. Odaseva is the only data platform built specifically tohelp the world's largest, most ambitious Salesforce customers keep their data protected, compliant, and agile.With Odaseva, Salesforce architects and platform owners get a powerful set of tools to help solve the problems at the foundation of the Salesforce data value chain. Keep customer data intact and available with comprehensive backup and archiving, apply analytics to prevent disruptions before they happen, use automation to take control of the entire data lifecycle and solve privacy and compliance issues at the root, and easily move data between production and non-production environments, to sandboxes, and to systems outside Salesforce. | $54M | Series C | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Raft | Raft is a smart logistics platform that automates the freight process for complete control and visibility. Raft's solution will use artificial intelligence to understand, triage, and act on incoming shipment data, saving HBI’s operators countless hours chasing information, manually keying into systems, and reconciling downstream systems. Theplatform’s real-time, continuous processing will enable HBI operators to handle shipments more quickly and with more certainty for their customers. | $30M | Series B | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Castor | Castor is an international health-tech company founded by CEO Derk Arts, MD, Ph.D. Their cloud-based clinical data platform simplifies the entire clinical trial process, from recruitment to analysis, for researchers worldwide. More than 50,000 researchers across 90 countries are using Castor to supercharge their research. Castor’s platform hassupported more than 4,000 commercial and academic studies that cover a broad range of therapeutic areas including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, rare diseases, infectious diseases, and oncology. Researchers on the platform generate vast amounts of data from traditional and remote trials, and Castor recently reached milestones of 180,000,000 data points and 2,000,000 enrolled patients. Castor’s goal is to make the world’s research data reusable, enabling AI-driven clinical trials, and ultimately creating a future in which they maximize the impact of data through reuse. | $45M | Series B | Jul 14, 2021 |  |
| Smol | Smol is a homecare startup that delivers to people’s homes eco-friendly laundry capsules and dishwasher tablets on subscription through letterboxes, which undercut the price of the leading brands. The company's laundry capsules and dishwasher tablets are eco-friendly, packed in recycled and recyclable materials, and suitable for vegans. Noanimal testing, no animal derivatives, just wonderfully fragranced clean clothes and dishes. | $33.9M | Series B | May 10, 2021 |  |
| Medallia Digital Experience Analytics | Decibel reveals exactly how users behave on websites and apps, making it easy for enterprise businesses to quantify and improve the customer experience at every digital touchpoint.Decibel is powered by machine learning, their award-winning technology processes hundreds of revolutionary behavioral metrics – from mouse movements and devicerotations, to pop-ups and errors – capturing an accurate picture of every user’s on-page experience.The world’s largest brands – including Lego, General Motors, British Airways, and AllState Insurance – use Decibel to pinpoint opportunities to improve the customer experience and collaborate across their organizations to put the customer first. | $40M | Series B | May 28, 2020 |  |
| Medallia Digital Experience Analytics | Decibel reveals exactly how users behave on websites and apps, making it easy for enterprise businesses to quantify and improve the customer experience at every digital touchpoint.Decibel is powered by machine learning, their award-winning technology processes hundreds of revolutionary behavioral metrics – from mouse movements and devicerotations, to pop-ups and errors – capturing an accurate picture of every user’s on-page experience.The world’s largest brands – including Lego, General Motors, British Airways, and AllState Insurance – use Decibel to pinpoint opportunities to improve the customer experience and collaborate across their organizations to put the customer first. | $17M | Series B | Nov 21, 2019 |  |
| VIU EYEWEAR | VIU is a Swiss eyewear startup shaking up the optical industry with a premium eyewear concept that breaks with norms through vertical integration and omnichannel retail. Seamlessly combining online and offline channels VIU is building holistic customer experiences, while offering premium and sustainable products at revolutionary prices. Founded inSwitzerland in 2013 VIU is active in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, operating 50 own flagshipstores as well a proprietary online channel and several partnerstores. |  |  | Oct 12, 2018 |  |
| Lighthouse | OTA Insight empowers hoteliers to make smarter revenue and distribution decisions through its market-leading suite of cloud-based business intelligence solutions including Rate Insight, Parity Insight and Revenue Insight. With live updates, 24/7 support from our customer success team, and a highly-intuitive and customisable dashboard, the OTAInsight platform integrates with other industry tools including hotel property management systems, leading revenue management systems and data benchmarking providers. OTA Insight's team of international experts are based all over the world, including the UK, US, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, Australia, India and Greece, and supports more than 50,000 properties in 168 countries. Ranked one of 10 “Ones to Watch” in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, OTA Insight is widely recognized as a leader in hospitality business intelligence. | $20M |  | Dec 13, 2017 |  |
| Lighthouse | OTA Insight empowers hoteliers to make smarter revenue and distribution decisions through its market-leading suite of cloud-based business intelligence solutions including Rate Insight, Parity Insight and Revenue Insight. With live updates, 24/7 support from our customer success team, and a highly-intuitive and customisable dashboard, the OTAInsight platform integrates with other industry tools including hotel property management systems, leading revenue management systems and data benchmarking providers. OTA Insight's team of international experts are based all over the world, including the UK, US, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, Australia, India and Greece, and supports more than 50,000 properties in 168 countries. Ranked one of 10 “Ones to Watch” in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, OTA Insight is widely recognized as a leader in hospitality business intelligence. | $20M | Series A | Dec 13, 2017 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [F-Prime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f-prime-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Serena](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/serena-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Molten Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-esprit) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [VentureForGood](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ventureforgood) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Eight Roads Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm managing $11bn of assets across offices in the UK, China, India, Japan, and the US. Together with our associated funds, including our US sister fund F-Prime Capital, our 50-year history of investing includes partnerships with over 500 companies such as Alibaba, AppsFlyer, Chewy, Fareye, Fever,Flywire, Fireblocks, Funnel.io, Gloat, Hibob, Icertis, Neo4j, Otrium, Owkin, Paidy, Spendesk, Tibber, Toast, Wallapop and Xoom.

5 contacts available at Eight Roads Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aditya Systla | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aditya-gurunath-systla |
| Gordon Zhang | Vice President & Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gordon-zhang |
| Jarlon Tsang | Managing Partner, Head of China | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jarlon-tsang |
| Michael Treskow | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-treskow |
| Prem Pavoor | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prem-pavoor |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Treskow invest in?

Michael Treskow invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Michael Treskow last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Treskow closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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