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ACV Auctions

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

Mobile app for car dealers to facilitate wholesale vehicle auctions

Valuation
$871M
Market cap · May/2026
Revenue
$760M
Latest reported FY
EBITDA
$74M
Latest reported FY
Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Investors

15 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
Z80 Labs Technology Incubator
Buffalo Angels
Series A 4 investors entered at this stage
Rand Capital
Armory Square Ventures
Tribeca Venture Partners
Softbank Capital
Series B+ 9 investors entered at this stage
Wellington Management
Bessemer Venture Partners
SBNY
Avant Global
Atreides Management
Fidelity Investments
Bain Capital Ventures
Future Fund
Durable Capital Partners

Global footprint

Where ACV Auctions has talent and traffic

AI talent share
1.3% of workforce is AI talent
(25 of 1,894 staff)
Core AI130.69%
Other AI120.63%
Non-AI workforce1,86998.68%
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
600K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States92.5%
🇫🇷 France1.4%
🇮🇳 India0.9%
🇳🇬 Nigeria0.7%
🇨🇦 Canada0.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$2M patent portfolio · 15 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$2M
0.21% of market cap · 2.1× smaller than top peer AUTO1 Group ($4M)
15 active patent families
Where ACV Auctions innovates Vehicle inspectionMachine learningComputer graphics (images)Learning modelsAudio frequency

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.

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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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    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        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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