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Acton Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 1999 · Active in 2026

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13 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #485 · Global · 13 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns → 0% 5y
7
Decacorns ↓ 50% 5y
1
Thoroughbreds ↑ 22% 5y
11

Acton Capital is a venture capital firm based in Germany, founded in 1999. The page below shows 13 Power Law outcomes from Acton Capital's portfolio — 7 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 5 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other · Other B2B Software · eCommerce & Marketplaces; top portfolio geographies are Germany · UK · Canada. Acton ranks #485 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 13 Acton Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. Germany6
  2. UK3
  3. Canada2
  4. Netherlands1
  5. USA1
By sectorCount
  1. Other4
  2. Other B2B Software3
  3. eCommerce & Marketplaces3
  4. Fintech2
  5. Transportation1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+7
  2. Series A2
  3. Seed2
01 · Portfolio market map

Acton's 13 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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13 of 13 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where Acton's founders come from — and where they study.

17 founders across the 13 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and Rocket Internet are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
Germany11
Canada2
United Kingdom1
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UniversityCount
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management2
University of Hamburg2
York university Toronto1
University of Münster1
Free University of Berlin1
PFH Private University of Applied Sciences1
University of Göttingen1
The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg1
University College London1
University of California, Santa Barbara1
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Origin companyCount
Rocket Internet4
Pipedrive1
Atlassian1
MyOptique Group1
Zendesk1
Kayak1
Zalando1
Home241
Dreamlines1
Zoopla1
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Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Acton.

Senior investment team at Acton Capital has not been published on this profile yet.
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04 · Compare with peers

How does Acton stack up?

Acton in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Acton Capital

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Acton 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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Latest news about Acton Capital

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