Ideas
Read some of our most recent investments, thoughts, and companies updates
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What I Learned at my First HR Tech Conference?
AI Stopped Being a Feature at HR Tech 2025.
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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.
Work in Progress
by Thomas Otter
Thomas Otter’s reflections on the past, present, and future of work technologies.
New York, Brooklyn, and an appointment with Monet.
Techwolf, Jolly, LPs, founders, 2026 planning and our community.
Pack: Why we invested
Vision, charisma, obstinance, exquisite technology timing and an underestimated market.
Two pricing heuristics for early stage enterprise software founders
Pricing Otterisms.
HR masters students at Pforzheim
It is fun to teach a bit.