What does Acadian Ventures invest in?
Acadian Ventures invests most often at Pre-seed and Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Work Software, Infrastructure and Intelligence.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 4 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $777M, Sept 2026VC firm
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2 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Pre-seed and Seed: 100% of its rounds
Led 1 rounds
Backing founders building the new architecture of work. We invest in infrastructure, intelligence, automation, experience, and compliance technologies.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first4 appearances
2 rounds
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The latest companies Acadian Ventures put money into.
2 episodes naming Acadian Ventures in the title.

Investor Stories 490: Investors from Volition, Acadian Ventures, and Interplay Ventures on Building Competence, Operating Experience, and Investing with Purpose (Cheng, Black, Peter Davis)
WithPeter Davis

Investor Stories 487: Legal Battles, Founder Fraud, and High-Stakes Conflict, Lessons from Investors at Acadian Ventures, Interplay Ventures, and OneBrief (Demaree, Black, Peter Davis)
WithPeter Davis
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Acadian Ventures invests most often at Pre-seed and Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Work Software, Infrastructure and Intelligence.
4 investments on record, 2 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 1. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Colare (Pre-seed, Oct 2026), Gradient (Pre-seed, Oct 2026) and Penzilla (Seed, May 2025).
The median round it joins is $3.1M.
Yes: it is actively investing, with 2 investments in the last 12 months.
Acadian Ventures is a VC firm based in Madison, United States.
About $85M, as gross assets of its private funds (Oct 2026).
Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in Sept 2026, reporting $777M raised.
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