Akkadian Ventures

Akkadian Ventures, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm established in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Denver, Colorado, and Las Vegas, Nevada. The firm specializes in growth stage investments, focusing on providing liquidity solutions to founders, early employees, and existing investors of venture-backed businesses. It primarily invests in private securities, acquiring common and preferred stock from existing stockholders, and is sector agnostic, targeting industries such as online advertising, cleantech, consumer electronics, e-commerce, enterprise software, and mobile technology. Akkadian Ventures typically invests between $0.25 million and $10 million in companies generating over $20 million in annual revenue, often acquiring small stakes without requiring board participation or voting rights. The firm emphasizes speed, tax efficiency, and confidentiality in its investment approach.

Black J.D., Benjamin

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Mike Gridley

Managing Director

Martin Kon

Venture Partner

Craig Nolan

Partner

44 past transactions

Transfr

Series B in 2022
Transfr’s core technology is a dialogue system between the trainee and our virtual coach. This unique VR apprenticeship model lets trainees move at their own pace and provides strategic, specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes and master the skills they need to successfully perform their job.

BigPanda

Series D in 2022
BigPanda is a software development firm that offers IT Ops, NOC, and DevOps teams to detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents. Powered by Open Box Machine Learning, BigPanda correlates IT noise into insights, automates incident management, and unifies fragmented IT operations. Customers like Intel, TiVO, Turner Broadcasting, and Workday rely on BigPanda to reduce their operating costs, improve service availability and performance, and de-risk and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. Founded in 2012, BigPanda is backed by top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital, Mayfield, and Battery Ventures.

Prime Trust

Secondary Market in 2021
Prime Trust LLC, based in Summerlin, Nevada, is a technology-driven trust company that offers innovative solutions for trust and custodial services. By developing software that serves as a financial infrastructure, Prime Trust enables fintech and digital asset companies to streamline their operations. As a chartered and regulated financial institution, it is subject to oversight by the banking commissioner’s office at the Financial Institutions Division. Prime Trust holds a diverse range of assets, including cash, stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies, real estate, and private business interests. The company acts as a custodian and trustee for various personal and corporate trusts, playing a significant role in the crowdfunding industry. It collaborates with individuals, corporations, legal professionals, and investment advisers to provide specialized custodial, escrow, and trust services.

FieldIn

Series B in 2021
FieldIn helps farmers and their stakeholders track operational progress and reduce work errors, offering new, previously inaccessible layers of information that support decision makers at every junction. FieldIn combines innovative hardware with an array of sensors, agricultural best-practices, data science analytics and proprietary algorithms into one integrative solution that captures the farm's pulse. They provide farm professionals with visualized insights and practical tools to manage every step of the pest control process, creating a new level of transparency, traceability and collaboration.

Reali

Series B in 2021
Reali is a real estate platform established in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company aims to enhance the home buying and selling experience by integrating various services, including real estate, mortgage, escrow, and title, into a single, user-friendly technology platform. This innovative approach not only simplifies the process for home buyers and sellers but also provides transparency and affordability throughout the journey. Reali's offerings include power buying products that empower homeowners to make all-cash offers, improving their chances of securing their desired properties. The company operates throughout California and is recognized as a desirable workplace, committed to transforming the real estate industry into a more honest and straightforward domain.

People.ai

Series D in 2021
People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for enterprise revenue. People.ai helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer, by capturing all customer contacts, activity and engagement to drive actionable insights across all revenue teams. People.ai empowers sales leaders to be more effective at managing their teams and growing revenue by giving them a complete picture of sales activities and leveraging AI to deliver sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, one-on-one feedback, and pipeline reviews. The People.ai platform identifies and targets the buying group, and gives marketers a clear visualization of whom sales has spoken with, and which campaign has been successful in each opportunity. Using this information, marketers are able to build personas and deal models in order to better target their marketing efforts and get better campaign ROI. Customer success and services teams use People.ai to ensure they are engaging with the right people when the customer is handed off to them, but more importantly, these post-sales teams are constantly looking to align their effort and activities with the right opportunities and customers, tracking the true cost to support each customer.

SafeGraph

Secondary Market in 2021
SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI. Its high-precision places data covers business listings, building footprints, and aggregated foot traffic data for millions of points of interest (POI) and thousands of brands in the US and Canada. With detailed brand affiliation, spatial hierarchy, and other key business details, SafeGraph data informs market analytics, investment research, site selection, and more. It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

JOOR

Series D in 2021
JOOR is a digital retail platform developer whose goal is to improve the complete wholesale purchasing process. The company's platform connects various brands with retailers worldwide to remove time-consuming, error-prone manual processes, allowing brands and retailers to increase incremental income, cut expenses, improve customer experience, and monitor performance using data analytics.

Pilot

Secondary Market in 2021
Pilot offers bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. The company's platform offers accurate financial reports and automated accrual basis bookkeeping to produce on-demand and error-free reports, enabling businesses to reduce time, cost, and labor associated with traditional outsourced bookkeeping practices.

Placer.ai

Secondary Market in 2021
Placer.ai offers a traffic analytics platform that allows anyone with a stake in the physical world to instantly generate insights into any property for a deeper understanding of the factors that drive success. Its platform also empowers professionals in retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, and economic development. Placer.ai was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Housecall Pro

Secondary Market in 2020
Housecall Pro is a developer of a mobile software platform used to connect back-end business operations and homeowners. It is a full-service tool that enables service professionals to run their entire business on their smartphone and complimentary web portal. The tool is offered at a competitive low cost and supports service professionals with all aspects of their workflow, including job scheduling, customer database, invoicing and payment processing, and technician dispatch. Housecall Pro was established in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

HoneyBook

Secondary Market in 2020
HoneyBook is the leading clientflow management platform that makes it easy for independent business owners to sell and deliver their services online. Offering powerful tools for communication, contracts, invoicing, payments, and more, the platform puts independent professionals in control of their process and client experience. HoneyBook is trusted by over 100,000 service-based businesses in the United States and Canada that have booked more than $9 billion in business on the platform. The company has offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, with remote staff worldwide. Learn more at HoneyBook.com HoneyBook investors include Tiger Global Management, Norwest Venture Partners, Aleph, Hillsven Capital, OurCrowd, Durable Capital Partners LP, Vintage Investment Partners, Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, Zeev Ventures, and 01 Advisors.

Navan

Secondary Market in 2020
Navan provides travel, expense, and corporate card management to automate manual processes and drive spend visibility. With one of the first enterprise technologies combining the cloud, mobile, and AI to balance business requirements with current standards, the company is reinventing the legacy category of travel and expense.

ACV

Secondary Market in 2020
ACV provides a pricing application (app) for franchise dealers. It offers ACV, a mobile auction platform that enables wholesale dealers to sell trade-ins by creating app-based auctions.

TradingView

Secondary Market in 2020
TradingView is a network of traders and investors – powered by real-time data and market-leading analysis software. It’s a word-of-mouth success story: from TechStars in Chicago in 2013, to over 15 million monthly active site users and over 40,000 publishers, brokerages, and fintech utilizing its investing tools. TradingView is a global team of over 200+, founded by Stan Bokov, Denis Globa, and Constantin Ivanov. In 2018 TradingView completed a $37 million Series B round led by Insight Partners, and in 2019 they acquired TradeIT in order to accelerate the company’s existing vision.

Sonder

Secondary Market in 2020
Sonder is revolutionizing hospitality through innovative, tech-powered service and inspiring, thoughtfully designed accommodations combined into one seamlessly managed experience. Sonder is making a world of better stays open to all with a variety of accommodation options — from rooms to suites and apartments — found in more than 30 cities spanning eight countries and three continents. Sonder’s innovative app empowers guests by making self-service features and 24/7 on-the-ground support just a tap away.

Reputation

Series C in 2019
Reputation.com, Inc. specializes in online reputation management solutions for businesses and individuals, operating both in the United States and internationally. The company offers a comprehensive platform that provides tools for managing negative search results, personal data removal, and executive privacy, along with services tailored for local search listings, online reviews, social media management, surveys, and analytics. Their offerings include advanced features like Reputation Score X, which merges performance metrics with prescriptive analytics, and Feedback Anywhere, an integration platform for customer feedback. Additionally, the company provides mobile applications for clients to engage with customer reviews and social media. With a focus on enhancing operational efficiency and customer service, Reputation.com serves a diverse range of sectors, including automotive, healthcare, hospitality, and retail. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company was previously known as ReputationDefender, Inc. before rebranding in 2011.

Wag

Secondary Market in 2018
Wag is a mobile application used to instantly find trusted and certified dog walkers. You’ll receive a push notification when the walk starts, followed by real-time GPS tracking of the walk. Once the walk is complete, you’ll receive a report card with a photo, notes, the distance traveled, and a pee/poop report.

Lime

Secondary Market in 2018
Lime aims to provide a sustainable solution to the first- and last-mile transportation problems by helping people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint. The company empowers future generations to change their behavior so they can save this planet together. From the electric scooter to the e-assist and pedal bike, experience the excitement of Lime’s smart mobility fleet.

MasterClass

Venture Round in 2018
MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn. It offers a wide range of subjects, including arts and entertainment, business, design and style, sports and gaming, writing, and more.

Dynamic Signal

Series E in 2018
Dynamic Signal is an employee communication and engagement platform connecting companies with their valued asset and their employees. The company is driving reach, productivity, and advocacy provides a better and faster way for employees and their audiences to receive enterprise signals. It increases productivity and empowers advocacy by informing and engaging employees with timely, relevant content across channels and devices. Dynamic Signal ensures communications are received by employees and their audiences alike. It offers influencer recruiting, collaboration support, member rewards, advisory support, and account management services. Hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises, including 85 of the Fortune 500, trust Dynamic Signal to deliver their enterprise signal in 21 countries around the globe. Founded in 2010, the company’s world class customers include IBM, Edelman, Ingram Micro, Salesforce, Autodesk, Domo, SurveyMonkey, and Humana. Dynamic Signal is based in San Francisco, California.

Gusto

Secondary Market in 2018
Gusto is a company that provides a cloud-based platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses to manage payroll, benefits, and human resources. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Denver, Gusto offers an array of services including payroll processing, health benefits, workers' compensation, and time tracking. The platform allows employers and employees to access payroll information from various devices, enabling features such as browsing pay stubs, reviewing tax forms, and verifying personal details. Gusto caters to a diverse clientele, including startups, coffee shops, medical practices, creative agencies, and law firms, aiming to simplify the administrative tasks associated with employee management.

Roofstock

Secondary Market in 2017
Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes in a transparent and low-friction way. The company provides its clients with research, analytics, and insights to evaluate and purchase independently certified properties at set prices. It enables its investors to treat their real estate investments more like stock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation, rather than researching, and buying vacant homes that need to be repaired and leased. Founded in 2015, Roofstock gets its funding from Bain Capital, Ron Conway, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, and other investment companies. It is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Skycatch

Secondary Market in 2017
Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

RiskIQ

Secondary Market in 2017
RiskIQ provides organizations the visibility and intelligence they need to secure their Enterprise Digital Footprint and map their Adversaries’ infrastructure. RiskIQ products, powered by a proprietary virtual-user technology, threat analysis engine, and global proxy network, enable an organization to defend against threats targeting its websites, mobile applications, brands, customers, and employees. RiskIQ is used by eight of the 10 largest financial institutions in the U.S. and five of the nine leading Internet companies in the world. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Battery Ventures and Summit Partners. For more, visit www.riskiq.com.

Dynamic Signal

Series D in 2016
Dynamic Signal is an employee communication and engagement platform connecting companies with their valued asset and their employees. The company is driving reach, productivity, and advocacy provides a better and faster way for employees and their audiences to receive enterprise signals. It increases productivity and empowers advocacy by informing and engaging employees with timely, relevant content across channels and devices. Dynamic Signal ensures communications are received by employees and their audiences alike. It offers influencer recruiting, collaboration support, member rewards, advisory support, and account management services. Hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises, including 85 of the Fortune 500, trust Dynamic Signal to deliver their enterprise signal in 21 countries around the globe. Founded in 2010, the company’s world class customers include IBM, Edelman, Ingram Micro, Salesforce, Autodesk, Domo, SurveyMonkey, and Humana. Dynamic Signal is based in San Francisco, California.

HONK

Secondary Market in 2015
HONK is an innovative roadside assistance platform that uses both technology and a unique business model to turn what used to be a day-ruining catastrophe into nothing more than a bump in the road. Customers can order directly from HONK via mobile web or our app to find a nearby professional and track the location and ETA of their tow truck in real-time. Roadside assistance professionals work with HONK to receive payment quickly and grow their businesses on their own terms. Insurance companies, auto OEMs, and fleets use our transparent platform and fully managed contact center to reduce wait times by over 50%, improve customer satisfaction, harness their roadside assistance data and receive industry leading NPS scores.

OfferUp

Secondary Market in 2015
OfferUp provides an online and mobile C2C marketplace app for people to buy and sell electronics, furniture, and cars. It enables users to post items for sale to friends, followers, people nearby, people of similar interests, moms groups, and craigslist using phones or tablets, browse local items with new postings daily; and message buyers and sellers. Arean Van Veelen and Nick Huzar founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Bellevue in Washington.

Tintri

Secondary Market in 2015
Tintri’s all-flash architecture uses building blocks similar to the public cloud to simply manage enterprise and cloud-native applications. Customers guarantee the performance of their applications, automate common IT tasks via Open APIs, troubleshoot across their infrastructure, and predict an organization’s needs to scale the underpinnings of a modern data center. That’s why leading cloud service providers and enterprises, including Comcast, Chevron, NASA, Toyota, and United Healthcare trust Tintri with enterprise cloud.

Prosper Marketplace

Secondary Market in 2015
Prosper is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions. Its platform provides lists of loan requests with low, fixed-rate loans and no hidden fees or prepayment penalties, enabling clients to easily gain access to affordable personal loans and investors to earn solid returns via a data-driven underwriting model. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Uber

Secondary Market in 2015
Uber Technologies, Inc. is a technology company that operates a mobile application connecting consumers with independent drivers for ridesharing services, as well as facilitating food delivery through its Eats segment. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, Uber has expanded its operations to over 600 cities worldwide, serving customers across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company has diversified its offerings into five segments: Rides, Eats, Freight, Other Bets, and Advanced Technologies Group. The Rides segment enables users to request rides from a variety of vehicle types, while the Eats segment allows for restaurant discovery and food delivery. The Freight segment connects carriers with shippers for logistics services. Uber is also focused on developing autonomous vehicle technology through its Advanced Technologies Group. By leveraging its platform, Uber aims to enhance urban mobility and deliver innovative transportation solutions globally.

Liftoff

Series A in 2015
In 2021, we merged with our friends at Vungle, creating one of the world’s largest independent—and privacy-friendly—platforms. Together, we’ll deliver even more value to our customers by continuing our work of fueling the entire mobile app transition cycle across user acquisition, engagement, monetization, and analytics. Our platform scales revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Structure Capital

Venture Round in 2014
Structure Capital help passionate teams build great companies by investing seed-stage capital, time, experience and relationships. Building a valuable company is hard—They've done it—they can help you do it too. They love helping entrepreneurs reach their dreams. They focus on companies that create a new market or new set of buyers by exploiting, capitalizing and profiting on under-utilized assets and excess capacity. Assets might include cars, houses, planes, airports, time, skills, knowledge, storage, transport, office space, hotel rooms, event space, personal property, and much, much more. they also like service and solutions companies that support these types of companies. As a team, they've invested at the early stage of many Unicorns, including Salesforce.com, Uber, Tesla, Facebook, Google and more. They're proud to be first round investors in Uber which is a Structure Capital portfolio company. 10 of their current portfolio have raised next round financing within 12 months of their round.

DataStax

Secondary Market in 2014
DataStax provides tools for building generative AI applications, offering a vector database with real-time data processing and integration capabilities. The Astra DB vector supports developers with APIs, data pipelines, and ecosystem integrations to facilitate the deployment of AI applications.

Apptio

Secondary Market in 2013
Apptio is the leading provider of cloud-based Technology Business Management (TBM) software that helps CIOs manage the business of IT. Apptio’s suite of applications use business analytics to provide facts and insights about technology cost, value, and quality, so IT leaders can make faster, data-driven decisions. The purpose-built applications help companies align technology spend to business outcomes and automate IT processes like cost transparency, benchmarking, showback/chargeback, operational efficiency, and planning. Powering Apptio’s applications is a next generation, in-memory cost analytics platform that takes data directly from all financial, operational, and billing systems, and powers applications that give customers deep insight.

Rocket Fuel

Secondary Market in 2012
Rocket Fuel is a programmatic media-buying platform developing artificial intelligence to improve marketing ROI in digital media across web, mobile, video, and social channels. It combines the science of artificial intelligence with the scale of big data to improve the effectiveness of programmatic marketing. The platform can be used to achieve brand and direct-response objectives in diverse industries across North America, Europe, and APAC. Rocket Fuel currently offers a complete digital marketing hub that includes data management, programmatic media-buying, site optimization, and predictive analytics capabilities that extend across a marketer's paid and owned channels, and personalize every customer interaction. Rocket Fuel was launched in 2008 by Abhinav Gupta, Richard Frankel, and George John. It is based in Redwood City, C.A.

RingCentral

Secondary Market in 2012
RingCentral is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform that offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to enhance business operations. Its products include unified communications as a service (UCaaS), which integrates voice, messaging, video conferencing, and online meetings, enabling organizations to connect teams across various locations seamlessly. The platform caters to over 350,000 businesses worldwide, providing solutions that scale with enterprises as they grow. Key offerings include RingCentral Office, which combines a multi-extension business phone system with unlimited calling and fax functionalities, and RingCentral Glip, a unified team workspace that facilitates effective collaboration by centralizing communications and resources. Additionally, RingCentral provides an omnichannel contact center solution that enhances customer service interactions and supports efficient communication. The company also offers RingCentral Professional for managing virtual phone lines and RingCentral Fax for internet-based faxing, streamlining document transmission. Headquartered in Belmont, California, RingCentral was founded in 2003 and has received backing from several prominent investors.

Palantir Technologies

Secondary Market in 2012
Palantir Technologies offers a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing information. Palantir software allows analysts within and between government organizations to collaborate and analyze large quantities of data. The company's software platforms are designed to help organizations, particularly in the fields of government, defense, finance, healthcare, and other industries, make sense of large and complex data sets.

Ooyala

Series E in 2012
Ooyala is concentrating on workflow management tools for video content.

Splunk

Secondary Market in 2011
Splunk is a leading software company based in San Francisco that specializes in analyzing machine data to provide Operational Intelligence for security, IT, and business applications. The company offers solutions that facilitate log management, application management, enterprise security, and compliance, catering primarily to enterprise clients. With more than 12,000 customers across over 110 countries, including over 90% of the Fortune 100, Splunk's products are available in both cloud and on-premises formats. The company generates revenue through the sale of software licenses, cloud subscriptions, and maintenance and support services, positioning itself as a key player in the markets of security and full-stack monitoring and analysis.

Opower

Secondary Market in 2011
Working with more than 85 utility partners and serving more than 18 million consumers across seven countries, Opower is the world’s leading provider of customer engagement solutions for the utility industry. By providing the tools, information and incentives consumers need to make smarter decisions about their energy use, Opower’s engagement platform and solution suite enables utilities to involve their customers in programs that support, energy efficiency goals, smart grid and new rate structures, brand loyalty and lowering the cost of service. Proven to drive behavioral change at scale, Opower has helped its utility partners achieve more than 2.5 TWHs of their energy efficiency goals, and drive significant increases in customer program participation and overall customer satisfaction. Opower is a leader in using standing desks according to an article the 5/21/2014 Washington Post. in Founded in 2007 and privately held, Opower is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices in San Francisco, London and Singapore.

DocuSign

Secondary Market in 2011
DocuSign, Inc. is a cloud-based software company that specializes in electronic signature solutions, enabling users to prepare, execute, and manage agreements digitally. Its platform automates various manual and paper-based processes, facilitating identity management, authentication, digital signatures, and workflow automation across multiple devices. The company offers a range of services, including DocuSign CLM for automating agreement workflows, Intelligent Insights for analyzing legal documents, and tailored industry-specific solutions such as Rooms for Real Estate and FedRAMP for U.S. federal agencies. Additionally, DocuSign provides training and support to its clients, which span small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and individual users across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, and government. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, DocuSign has expanded its operations internationally with offices in cities such as London, Sydney, and Dublin.

Automattic

Secondary Market in 2011
Automattic Inc. is a technology company focused on developing and providing web-based solutions and services. Known for its robust suite of products, Automattic offers WordPress.com for website creation and management, WooCommerce for e-commerce, Jetpack for site performance and security, and other tools aimed at enhancing web functionality.

Lithium Technologies

Secondary Market in 2011
Lithium builds trusted relationships between the world’s best brands and their customers, helping people get answers and share their experiences. Brands like Microsoft, HP, Sephora, Virgin and Barclaycard and customers in more than 34 countries rely on Lithium to help them connect, engage, and understand their total community. With more than 100 million monthly visits over all Lithium communities and 750 million online profiles scored by Klout, Lithium has one of the largest digital footprints in the world. Using that data and the company’s software, Lithium customers boost sales, reduce service costs, spark innovation, and build long-term brand loyalty and advocacy.
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