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ACV Auctions

Transportation · Buffalo, United States · Founded 2014 · IPO 2021

Mobile app for car dealers to facilitate wholesale vehicle auctions

Valuation $1.24B
Revenue $851M
EBITDA $75M

Investors

14 investors on ACV Auctions's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 2 investors entered at this stage
Buffalo Angels
Z80 Labs Technology Incubator
Series A 4 investors entered at this stage
Rand Capital
Tribeca Venture Partners
Softbank Capital
Armory Square Ventures

Global footprint

Where ACV Auctions has talent and traffic

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

Talent graph

The shape of ACV Auctions's talent

Dealroom maps ACV Auctions's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

18 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
25 AI specialistsincl. 13 core researchers
1,932 employees mappedperson by person
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$3M patent portfolio · 15 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$3M
0.26% of market cap · 1.6× smaller than top peer AUTO1 Group ($5M)
15 active patent families
Where ACV Auctions innovates Audio frequencyComputer graphics (images)Field of viewLearning modelsMachine learning

Where ACV Auctions concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across ACV Auctions and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

Compare against

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

ACV Auctions's 5 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where ACV Auctions appeared as a 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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        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        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

        02 · Portfolio market map

        ACV Auctions's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        5 of 5 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about ACV Auctions

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about ACV Auctions on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        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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