Ideas

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

ChatGPT’S Mind-Boggling, Possibly Dystopian Impact on the Media World

Acadian Ventures
January 26, 2023

How Mark Newman founded Nomi Health

Acadian Ventures
January 26, 2023

Acadian Ventures 2022 Year in Review

Acadian Ventures
January 4, 2023

4 pillars for using AI responsibly in a skill-based organization

Acadian Ventures
January 3, 2023

Startups End a Bruising 2022, Stare Down Another Challenging Year

Acadian Ventures
January 1, 2023

See the pitch deck that startup Assembly used to convince investors to bet $10 million on its approach to business software

Acadian Ventures
December 12, 2022

Remote workplace tech is raking in investment, but bosses have other ideas

Acadian Ventures
November 30, 2022

Paris-based Figures scores €6.67 million for its salary compensation benchmarking app

Acadian Ventures
September 7, 2022

Work in Progress

by Thomas Otter

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

Application tourism, AGI, HR Tech and the stack fallacy.

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Thomas Otter
September 6, 2025

Musings on OpenAI's AI job matching and learning announcement.

On the recent acquisitions in HR Tech.

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Thomas Otter
August 22, 2025

Brief reflections on Paradox, SmartRecruiters, Flowise, Workday, SAP and Dayforce

Building Africa's worktech champion: Workpay

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Thomas Otter
August 21, 2025

The coolest CTPO gig on the continent. Building something marvelous.

When to go deep. Technical expertise. A bit about open source. Becoming the cognitive referent.

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Thomas Otter
August 12, 2025

Techwolf, open source and talking about the recipe. Hungry like the Techwolf.

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