Acadian Ventures

Financial Services · Venture Capital
42investments
2exits
$9.1Mraised by its portfolio in 12 months
88open roles in its portfolio

Overview

Backing founders building the new architecture of work. We invest in infrastructure, intelligence, automation, experience, and compliance technologies.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
42
30 of them startups
Hiring now
16
88 open roles
Deals in 12 months
1
Rounds in 12 months
2
$9.1M raised
Exits
2
Focusshare of its companies
Software 52%Professional Services 39%Artificial Intelligence 33%Health Care 6%Events & Ticketing 6%Education 3%Cybersecurity 3%Lifestyle 3%
Where its companies are
United States 31%United Kingdom 10%France 7%Germany 5%Belgium 2%Netherlands 2%Malaysia 2%Italy 2%
Stage of its companies
Series A 36%Pre-seed & seed 36%Series B 21%Series C and later 7%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 42 investments
PalettePre-Seed $3.2M · 3 mo ago · 2 roles FindemVenture round $5.8M · 11 mo ago · 8 roles JollySeries A $16.5M · 19 mo ago OysterSeries D $59M · 2 yr ago · 15 roles ProgressionVenture round · 2 yr ago TechWolfVenture round $43M · 2 yr ago WorkyVenture round $6M · 2 yr ago Compa SaaS Customer Agreement between Compa Technologies, Inc.Venture round $12.1M · 2 yr ago · 6 roles WorkpayVenture round $2.7M · 3 yr ago · 7 roles DegreedVenture round $50.9M · 3 yr ago · 2 roles SquarepegVenture round $2.8M · 4 yr ago · 8 roles join_assemblyVenture round $2.4M · 5 yr ago
88 open roles at 16 of its companies
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
Squarepeg8 new roles in 30 days Findem6 new roles in 30 days Beeline5 new roles in 30 days Kombo4 new roles in 30 days Sol4 new roles in 30 days Oyster3 new roles in 30 days
New in the portfolioadded to its portfolio page in 6 months
Soladded Nov 3 · 5 roles
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Y Combinator 5 shared Soma Capital 4 shared Connect Ventures 3 shared Techstars 2 shared Kickstart 2 shared Headline 2 shared Felix Capital 2 shared Notioncapital 2 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
Sempervirens Bowery Capital SaaS Capital Converge BDev Ventures Stage 2 Capital Index Ventures Frontline Ventures
Sources: its portfolio page, read Nov 3; 1 rounds in the press that name it

Financials

Total raised
$30M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $30M Details

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Shared investors3
Gary TurnerVia a fund
11 portfolio companies: Xero, Libeo, firstminute capital and 8 more
Peak CapitalVia a fund
162 portfolio companies: Foreword, Adeline, Lette and 159 more
findfunding.vcVia a fund
199 portfolio companies: Atlas Venture, Atento Capital, Atlandventures and 196 more
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News

News acadianventures.substack.com 2 months ago
Acadian Ventures Inaugural Impact Report
Our inaugural report focused on 6 core areas of impact: access to opportunity, economic mobility, equity & inclusion, training & reskilling, redesigned wellness and trust & responsible AI.
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News acadianventures.substack.com 3 months ago
Our Investment in Palette
Palette makes it easy for your whole team to work with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and more on the files and context you already share.
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News acadianventures.substack.com 4 months ago
Acadian Ventures Quarterly Newsletter - Summer 2026
News and updates from Acadian Ventures during the second quarter of 2026.
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News acadianventures.substack.com 5 months ago
Our Investment in Linc
Linc raises €8.5 million to become the leading payroll software platform for accounting and payroll firms
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News acadianventures.substack.com 5 months ago
Our Investment in Vcola
Why we backed a Dublin-born team building the AI-native enterprise application stack - and why we believe this is one of the most important infrastructure bets in enterprise software today.
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News acadianventures.substack.com 5 months ago
Acadian Ventures Summit 2026 Recap
Highlights from our annual Acadian Ventures Summit 2026
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News acadianventures.substack.com 7 months ago
Acadian Ventures Quarterly Newsletter - Spring 2026
News and updates from Acadian Ventures during the first quarter of 2026.
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News acadianventures.substack.com 7 months ago
The New Architecture of Work
The advent of AI does not signal the end of work, but the end of
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News Pulse 2.0 2 years ago
Acadian Ventures: $30 Million Fund II Closed To Invest In Next-Gen Technologies
Acadian Ventures - an early-stage venture capital firm - announced the successful close of its second fund on an oversubscribed $30 million in capital commitments.
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News Venturebeat 2 years ago
Acadian Ventures raises $30M for work tech
Acadian Ventures raised $30 million for its second venture capital fund to focus on technologies for the future of work.
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