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

Job offer management platform Compa emerges from stealth with $3.9M

Acadian Ventures
August 26, 2021

HR Tech and the Future of Work

Jason Corsello
May 15, 2021

Announcing our Investment in Utmost

Jason Corsello
May 5, 2021

๐Ÿš€ Announcing Acadian Ventures Fund I ๐Ÿš€

Jason Corsello
March 30, 2021

Future of Work Global Index

Jason Corsello
January 14, 2021

Index as of January 2015, Last Updated January 14, 2021

Our First Exit - SmartRecruiters Acquires jobpal

Jason Corsello
November 12, 2020

Building a Product-Led Growth Strategy

Acadian Ventures
October 29, 2020

Our Investment in Arist

Jason Corsello
October 15, 2020

Work in Progress

by Thomas Otter

Thomas Otterโ€™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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