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ACV Auctions
Mobile app for car dealers to facilitate wholesale vehicle auctions
At a glance
- Founded
- 2014
- Headquarters
- Buffalo, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2021
- Sector
- Transportation
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning ACV Auctions.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed2 investors entered at this stage
- BABuffalo Angels
- ZIZ80 Labs Technology Incubator
Series A4 investors entered at this stage
- RCRand Capital
- TPTribeca Venture Partners
Softbank Capital- AVArmory Square Ventures
Series B and later8 investors entered at this stage
Fidelity Investments- FFFuture Fund
- SBSBNY
Bain Capital Ventures- AGAvant Global
Bessemer Venture Partners
Durable Capital Partners
Wellington Management
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Global footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
15 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
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.
5 deals across ACV Auctions's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
Market sentiment
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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