Akkadian Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Akkadian Ventures is a direct secondary investment firm that focuses on providing liquidity to early employees and investors of venture-backed businesses. It offers tailored solutions for companies and employees, with key benefits that include speed, tax efficiency, and rigorous respect for confidentiality. The firm was founded in 2010 and isheadquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Total investments:
- 48
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 69%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Akkadian Ventures invests in
SoftwareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologyFinTech
Stages Akkadian Ventures invests in
Secondary MarketSeries DFunding RoundSeries ASeries B
Countries Akkadian Ventures invests in
United StatesIsraelUnited Kingdom
Contacts
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Benjamin Black
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Chris Tarr
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Craig Nolan
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Loren Siebert
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 18 (38%)
- SaaS 11 (23%)
- Enterprise Software 11 (23%)
- Information Technology 8 (17%)
- FinTech 7 (15%)
Stage
- Secondary Market 32 (67%)
- Series D 6 (13%)
- Funding Round 3 (6%)
- Series A 2 (4%)
- Series B 2 (4%)
Country
- United States 43 (90%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Benjamin Black
Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Co-Founder and Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Chris Tarr
Chief Technology Officer
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Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Craig Nolan
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Loren Siebert
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Mike Dinsdale
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Transfr
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TRANSFR VR’s core technology is a dialogue system between the trainee and our virtual coach. This unique VR apprenticeship model lets trainees move at their own pace and provides strategic, specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes and master the skills they need to successfully perform their job. | $40M / Series C / Sep 28, 2023 | |
BigPanda
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BigPanda's autonomous operations platform helps IT Ops, NOC and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents faster and more easily. Powered by Open Box Machine Learning, BigPanda correlates IT noise into insights, automates incident management, and unifies fragmented IT operations. Customers such as Intel, TiVO, TurnerBroadcasting, and Workday rely on BigPanda to reduce their operating costs, improve service availability and performance, and de-risk and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives.Founded in 2012, BigPanda is backed by top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital, Mayfield, and Battery Ventures. | $190M / Series D / Jan 12, 2022 | |
Prime Trust
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Prime Trust is a technology-driven trust company unlike anything else in existence. We are doing to the traditional trust industry what Paypal did to merchant processing; completely disrupting it by writing software that brings services to the masses and that business partners can build on top of. As a chartered, regulated financial institution weare overseen by the banking commissioner’s office at the Financial Institutions Division. As a trust company we hold cash and non-cash assets such as stocks, bonds, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, tokens, real estate, and private business ownership interests. We act as custodian and trustee for a wide variety of personal and corporate trusts, as well as a major part of the crowdfunding industry, and work with individuals, corporations, lawyers, brokers, investment advisers and others on holding and managing specialized custodial, escrow and trust services. | Secondary Market / Oct 01, 2021 | |
FieldIn
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FieldIn helps farmers and their stakeholders track operational progress and reduce work errors, offering new, previously inaccessible layers of information that support decision makers at every junction.FieldIn combines innovative hardware with an array of sensors, agricultural best-practices, data science analytics and proprietary algorithmsinto one integrative solution that captures the farm's pulse.They provide farm professionals with visualized insights and practical tools to manage every step of the pest control process, creating a new level of transparency, traceability and collaboration. | $30M / Series B / Sep 01, 2021 | |
Reali
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Reali is the first company to leverage first-in-kind technology to serve homebuyers and sellers in a single, integrated platform. The company’s wide range of alternative financing solutions make a complicated process like buying and selling at the same time much less complicated. Customers can buy and sell in one coordinated transaction,eliminating resale contingencies, moving twice, and paying two mortgages at once. Whether it’s buying, selling, financing, or owning a home, Reali’s high-tech, high-touch offering meets the unique and individual needs of their customers. | $75M / Series B / Aug 18, 2021 | |
People.ai
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People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for enterprise revenue.People.ai helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer, by capturing all customer contacts, activity and engagement to drive actionable insights across all revenue teams.People.ai empowers sales leaders to bemore effective at managing their teams and growing revenue by giving them a complete picture of sales activities and leveraging AI to deliver sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, one-on-one feedback, and pipeline reviews.The People.ai platform identifies and targets the buying group, and gives marketers a clear visualization of whom sales has spoken with, and which campaign has been successful in each opportunity. Using this information, marketers are able to build personas and deal models in order to better target their marketing efforts and get better campaign ROI.Customer success and services teams use People.ai to ensure they are engaging with the right people when the customer is handed off to them, but more importantly, these post-sales teams are constantly looking to align their effort and activities with the right opportunities and customers, tracking the true cost to support each customer. | $100M / Series D / Aug 11, 2021 | |
Backstory
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People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for enterprise revenue.People.ai helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer, by capturing all customer contacts, activity and engagement to drive actionable insights across all revenue teams.People.ai empowers sales leaders to bemore effective at managing their teams and growing revenue by giving them a complete picture of sales activities and leveraging AI to deliver sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, one-on-one feedback, and pipeline reviews.The People.ai platform identifies and targets the buying group, and gives marketers a clear visualization of whom sales has spoken with, and which campaign has been successful in each opportunity. Using this information, marketers are able to build personas and deal models in order to better target their marketing efforts and get better campaign ROI.Customer success and services teams use People.ai to ensure they are engaging with the right people when the customer is handed off to them, but more importantly, these post-sales teams are constantly looking to align their effort and activities with the right opportunities and customers, tracking the true cost to support each customer. | $100M / Series D / Aug 11, 2021 | |
SafeGraph
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SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI. Its high-precision places data covers business listings, building footprints, and aggregated foot traffic data for millions of points of interest (POI) and thousands of brands in the US and Canada. With detailed brand affiliation, spatial hierarchy, and other keybusiness details, SafeGraph data informs market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more.It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | Secondary Market / Aug 01, 2021 | |
JOOR
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JOOR is a digital retail platform developer whose goal is to improve the complete wholesale purchasing process. The company's platform connects various brands with retailers worldwide to remove time-consuming, error-prone manual processes, allowing brands and retailers to increase incremental income, cut expenses, improve customer experience,and monitor performance using data analytics. | $46M / Series D / Jun 15, 2021 | |
Pilot
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Pilot offers bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. The company's platform offers accurate financial reports and automated accrual basis bookkeeping to produce on-demand and error-free reports, enabling businesses to reduce time, cost, and labor associated with traditional outsourced bookkeeping practices. | Secondary Market / Jun 01, 2021 | |
| See all 48 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Akkadian Ventures invest in?
Akkadian Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Secondary Market and Series D stage. Most of the 48 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Akkadian Ventures?
The team at Akkadian Ventures includes Benjamin Black (Co-Founder and Managing Director), Chris Tarr (Chief Technology Officer) and Craig Nolan (Principal), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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