Ideas
Read some of our most recent investments, thoughts, and companies updates
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Welcome Audrey Handem!
Acadian welcomes Audrey to our investment team.
Our Investment in Origin
Origin is the first Global Benefits Intelligence platform, empowering HR and benefits teams to strategically manage and optimize global employee benefits.
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Our Investment in Penzilla
Penzilla is simplifying and modernizing the broken pension system in Germany and beyond.
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Our Investment in Match2
Match2 is pioneering Direct Talent Networks — a kind of “private LinkedIn” where companies can build persistent relationships with potential candidates, even when roles aren’t open.
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Welcome Erin Yang!
Acadian welcomes Erin to our investment team.
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Introducing Summit 2025 (May 21st, Park City, Utah)
We’re bringing together the industry’s leading CEOs and founders driving breakthrough in work.
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Our Investment in SquarePeg
We invested in SquarePeg last year, we held off announcing it, but thrilled to kick off the new year with an explanation of why we made the investment.
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Announcing the 2024 Future of Work 100
The Future of Work 100 is a comprehensive list of the leading venture-backed companies that are enabling how work gets done in the future.
Work in Progress
by Thomas Otter
Thomas Otter’s reflections on the past, present, and future of work technologies.
Employment and AI
Part 3 of my talk on the Acadian Ventures AI thesis.
On productivity and AI. It's complicated.
Part 2 of my talk on the Acadian Ventures AI thesis.
An agentic prediction.
Part 1 of my talk on the Acadian Ventures AI thesis.
The Acadian AGM and Summit 2025
Building our firm.