Stage FocusSeed, Series B+
GeographyUS
TypeVC
Last Activity-
Industry Focus
Industries
AIRoboticsAgritechMobility
Technical BenchLimited
Investor TypeGeneralist
ExposureSome DeepTech Investments
Bio
Akkadian Ventures is a San Francisco venture firm built around direct-secondary investing, founded in 2010 by Ben Black and Peter Smith to give early employees and small investors at venture-backed companies a path to liquidity. Over more than 15 years it has completed over 900 transactions and reports 1.55 billion dollars in assets under management as of March 2026, run across a multi-strategy pl...
Notable Investments
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DocuSign (eSignature, IPO)G
Gusto (HR and payroll platform)S
Splunk (observability, IPO)U
Uber (ride-hailing, IPO)R
RingCentral (cloud communications, IPO)P
PalantirL
Lime (shared electric vehicles)D
Datastax (generative-AI database infrastructure)B
BigPanda (AI-powered ITOps)S
Skycatch (drone automation and data analysis)P
People.ai (AI data platform for sales teams)N
Navan (travel and expense platform)Similar Funds
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