Ideas

Read some of our most recent investments, thoughts, and companies updates

Our Investment in Origin

Acadian Ventures
May 14, 2025

Origin is the first Global Benefits Intelligence platform, empowering HR and benefits teams to strategically manage and optimize global employee benefits.

Our Investment in Penzilla

Acadian Ventures
May 14, 2025

Penzilla is simplifying and modernizing the broken pension system in Germany and beyond.

Welcome Erin Yang!

Acadian Ventures
April 14, 2025

Acadian welcomes Erin to our investment team.

Introducing Summit 2025 (May 21st, Park City, Utah)

Acadian Ventures
February 5, 2025

We’re bringing together the industry’s leading CEOs and founders driving breakthrough in work.

Our Investment in SquarePeg

Acadian Ventures
January 22, 2025

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.

Announcing the 2024 Future of Work 100

Jason Corsello
September 24, 2024

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.

Oyster Raises $59M Series D

Acadian Ventures
September 5, 2024

Oyster raises $59M Series D round led by Silver Lake Waterman.

Workpay Raises $5M Series A

Acadian Ventures
August 22, 2024

Workpay raises $5M Series A round led by Norrsken22.

Work in Progress

by Thomas Otter

Thomas Otter’s reflections on the past, present, and future of work technologies.

Origin Benefits: why we invested

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Thomas Otter
May 14, 2025

Solving information asymmetry

Penzilla: why we invested.

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Thomas Otter
May 14, 2025

Retirement is a thing: making German company pensions cool.

America's AI in the workplace policy.

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Thomas Otter
April 28, 2025

Hearing from Keith Sonderling: Deputy Secretary of Labor.

WTF is a forward-deployed engineer?

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Thomas Otter
April 21, 2025

Other than fancy words for a technical implementation consultant.

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