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ACV Auctions
Mobile app for car dealers to facilitate wholesale vehicle auctions
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
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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.
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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