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Mobile app for car dealers to facilitate wholesale vehicle auctions

Buffalo, United StatesFounded 2014Transportation
Valuation $1.24B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $851M Latest reported FY
EBITDA $75M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2014
Headquarters
Buffalo, United States
Listing
IPO 2021
Sector
Transportation
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Investors

14 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed2 investors entered at this stage

  • Buffalo Angels
  • Z80 Labs Technology Incubator

Series A4 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later8 investors entered at this stage

Employees mapped 1,932 incl. 25 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 18 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia Hidden — book a demo alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
9 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States85.2%
🇮🇳 India8.3%
🇨🇦 Canada5.8%
🇫🇷 France0.2%
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates0.1%
Top 5 of 9 shown
Web traffic by country
740K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States95.9%
🇵🇱 Poland0.7%
🇨🇦 Canada0.5%
🇳🇬 Nigeria0.4%
🏳️ Korea0.3%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$3M

15 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where ACV Auctions was the backer or acquirer, 2020–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

5 deals across ACV Auctions's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        Where ACV Auctions deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        ACV Auctions's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        5 of 5 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about ACV Auctions on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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