Hey, I'm Benjamin!
San Francisco Bay Area | Member since September 2016
About Benjamin Black
Akkadian Ventures manages investment partnerships focused exclusively on providing unique liquidity solutions to entrepreneurs, founders, early employees and seed investors. We are currently investing out of Fund II and more than $115M in AUM. We have worked successfully with the management of more 20 venture-backed high growth companies, including Splunk, Docusign, Opower, Rocket Fuel and Ringcentral.
We have a core focus on acquiring small stakes ($50K - $3M) in successful growing private businesses and solving the liquidity needs of small shareholders.
We solve tax and liquidity problems for employees through the use of structures that lower risk and lower overall tax burdens. Our focus is in partnering with great companies to use liquidity to promote employee retention.
With the average time to liquidity now nine years, more entrepreneurs, angel investors and early employees are seeing the benefit of taking moderate amounts of capital off the table by selling private stock. We are experts in making these complex and difficult deals happen. Our investors include many leading Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs.
Specialties: Finding great companies.
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