Ideas
Read some of our most recent investments, thoughts, and companies updates
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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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.
Oyster Raises $59M Series D
Oyster raises $59M Series D round led by Silver Lake Waterman.
Workpay Raises $5M Series A
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
Solving information asymmetry
Penzilla: why we invested.
Retirement is a thing: making German company pensions cool.
America's AI in the workplace policy.
Hearing from Keith Sonderling: Deputy Secretary of Labor.
WTF is a forward-deployed engineer?
Other than fancy words for a technical implementation consultant.