Acadian Ventures

Acadian Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Madison, Connecticut, founded in 2019. The company focuses on investing in early-stage firms that are at the forefront of transforming the workplace, aiming to enhance productivity, fairness, and the overall experience of work. Acadian Ventures primarily targets the software-as-a-service sector, supporting businesses that are leading the work revolution and redefining the future of work. Through its investments, the firm seeks to build enduring enterprises that contribute positively to the evolving landscape of work.

Jason Corsello

Founder and General Partner

11 past transactions

TechWolf

Series A in 2022
TechWolf develops an AI-based talent intelligence platform that allows enterprises to adopt a skills-based talent model. The company's platform automatically monitors employees’ skills based on HR information and their digital footprint on the work floor. Its AI-based software offers organizations an overview of skills and skill gaps across their workforce and actionable insights on current and future skill needs.

Holivia

Seed Round in 2022
Holivia offers employees a confidential and tailor-made experience. Accompanied by experts selected with great care. Accessible in just a few hours, their support is enriched by self-care programs allowing the development of personal and emotional skills, at each moment and at their own pace.

SPOTLYFE

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The first personal operating system designed to bring work, life and wellness into view while putting YOU back in control of your day.

Compa

Seed Round in 2021
Compa is making compensation fair and competitive for everyone by removing barriers to effective decision-making.

SmartRecruiters

Series E in 2021
SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform to find, engage, and hire talent. It has full functionality for recruitment marketing and collaborative hiring built on a modern cloud platform with an open marketplace for 3rd party recruitment services. It was founded in 2010 in US.

Utmost

Series B in 2021
Utmost provides a Workday-native alternative to legacy vendor management systems. It gives enterprises a single solution to source, engage, and optimize spend for the extended workforce. The company was founded in 2018 and based in Dublin, Ireland.

Clovers

Seed Round in 2021
Clovers’ intelligent interview solution enables recruiters and hiring teams to collaborate on hiring decisions, reduce unconscious bias, and benefit from real-time interview feedback and coaching—all while delivering an exceptional interview experience.

Oyster

Series A in 2021
Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. The company's HR platform for globally distributed companies enables growing organizations to give valued international team members the experience they deserve, without the usual headaches or expense. Oyster empowers hiring anywhere in the world with reliable, compliant payroll and great local benefits and perks. Founded in January 2020 by Tony Jamous and Jack Mardack, Oyster is itself a fully remote company with a diverse, globally distributed team.

Mighty Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Mighty translates detailed individual workflows from the tools people use into automated, dynamic team timelines that anyone can follow to see where teams are focused and that managers can use to easily maintain alignment, keep leadership informed, and spot opportunities for recognition and coaching. It automatically builds directly from workflows in tools such as Jira, Asana, and Slack to help lead teams, coach people, and keep everyone informed.

jobpal

Seed Round in 2019
At jobpal, they build AI-powered chatbots for the recruiting and talent acquisition use case that automate the communication between employers and candidates. Their goal is to fundamentally change the candidate experience and make the hiring process more efficient. The company was founded in 2016 by the three friends Luc Dudler, Christoph Güldenberg and Andriy Martyniv in Berlin, shortly after Facebook announced opening up the Messenger Platform for chatbots. jobpal’s chatbots are capable of automating frequently asked questions, candidate engagement, pre-screening, interview logistics and more - supporting recruiters and giving them back more time to get face-to-face with relevant candidates quicker and with less effort.

ClearedIn

Seed Round in 2019
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