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Akkadian Ventures — Seed & Series A VC Firm ($250K–$10.0M Checks)

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Akkadian Ventures is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, United States investing in Enterprise, Other, SaaS. The firm typically writes $250K–$10.0M checks and has 47 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$250K–$10.0M
Portfolio
47 companies on record
Partners
11 listed
AUM
$1.3B
Stage
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Enterprise, Other, SaaS, AI / ML, Developer Tools
HQ
San Francisco, California, United States

Last verified: 2026-09-04

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Seed, Series A

Check Size

$250K – $10.0M

AUM

$1.3B

Portfolio

47+ companies

Team

11 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Akkadian Ventures is a venture secondary investment firm that provides liquidity to founders, employees, and early investors, and invests across primary and secondary private-technology transactions, focusing on innovative structures, enterprise technology, AI, SaaS, infrastructure, and high-growth late stage as well as seed-stage opportunities.

How Akkadian Ventures invests

Akkadian Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California, United States. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on Enterprise, Other, SaaS, AI / ML, Developer Tools. It does not invest in Consumer apps, Social media.

Akkadian Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$10.0M per investment, backed by approximately $1.3B in assets under management.

Akkadian Ventures has backed 47 companies in our records, including PandoLogic, Forge Global, ACV.

Partners & Team

DK

Dan Kennedy

Partner

AS

Angela Stanley

Chief Operating Officer

SD

Scott Dubin

Vice President

GG

Gloria Gennaro

Senior Investment Associate

PE

Peter T. Smith

Co-founder & CCO

legal structuring
compliance
corporate affairs for venture secondaries
BB

Benjamin Black

Co-founder & Managing Director

secondary liquidity
venture secondaries
growth-stage companies
CN

Craig Nolan

Partner

VC-backed company finance
deal sourcing
secondary and primary investments
DK

Daniel Kennedy

Partner

technology finance
corporate development
VC/tech transactions
AS

Angela Stanely

Partner & COO

investor relations
fundraising
venture capital operations
MD

Mike Dinsdale

Managing Director

finance and operations
growth stage finance
secondary and primary VC investments
JC

Jonathan Cobb

Managing Partner

Enterprise SaaS
Infrastructure
GenAI in regulated industries

Industry Focus

Invests In

Enterprise
Other
SaaS
AI / ML
Developer Tools

Does Not Invest In

Consumer apps
Social media

Portfolio Companies (47)

Other

PA

PandoLogic

AI-driven ad-tech for enterprise hiring workflows
FO

Forge Global

Private company liquidity enablement
AC

ACV

AP

Apptio

AU

Automattic

BI

BigPanda

CA

Carbon Health

DA

Datastax

DO

Docusign

DY

Dynamic Signal

How to pitch Akkadian Ventures
  • Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Enterprise, Other, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $250K – $10.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Dan Kennedy, Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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