Aprio Ventures
Aprio Ventures is Aprio’s strategic investment program, created to identify and accelerate the technologies shaping professional services. We invest in emerging technology companies, work alongside founders, and put the best solutions to work for our teams and the clients they serve.
What we do
Aprio Ventures connects the startup ecosystem with the teams inside Aprio. We take what our practice and industry groups need to the founders building for it — and bring the best of what’s being built back to our teams and their clients.
Since 2019, Aprio has invested in nearly 20 companies and worked alongside founders to evaluate, pilot, and scale technology across the professional services landscape. Aprio Ventures is the dedicated team behind that work — finding great companies, partnering with them, and investing in the best.
We work alongside founders.
We share the workflows our teams most want to improve, and founders get feedback from the professionals who do that work every day.
We partner.
Selected technologies are evaluated within our own operations, and we look for ways to work together — as a customer, a partner, or both.
We invest.
When we believe a company is a great one, we invest to build the relationship — and we work to make sure that company succeeds.
What we look for
Companies that improve how professional services are delivered. We focus on two areas.
Technology for our profession
The software our teams use to serve clients — across tax, audit, advisory, wealth, legal, and talent.
Our professionals use these tools every day, so we know from experience whether a product actually works. The companies we back can prove themselves inside Aprio — as products our teams test, use, and rely on.
Technology serving our clients
The products our clients use to run their businesses.
Aprio serves thousands of middle-market businesses across nine industries. We invest in the software that helps those businesses run better — and our clients tell us every day what they need next.
Read how Aprio Ventures came together.
Why work with us
We want to be a partner in your success. Here is what we can offer.
Real product feedback.
Professionals across accounting, tax, advisory, wealth, legal, and talent who can tell you whether your product solves a real problem.
A place to prove it.
The opportunity to evaluate how your technology performs in a growing professional services firm — real workflows, real engagements.
Distribution and introductions.
Thousands of business clients, an alliance of 100+ accounting firms, and a wide set of strategic partnerships — reach and credibility that would take a young company years to build alone.
The firm behind the capital
20th
Largest business advisory and accounting firm in the U.S.
3,400+
Team members serving clients in 50+ countries
10,000+
Middle-market clients across nine industries
100+
Alliance member firms
15+
Companies invested in since 2019
“By investing in emerging technology and putting promising solutions to work inside Aprio, we can improve how we serve clients and give our professionals more time to focus on meaningful advice. This is another way Aprio is staying ahead and helping lead the profession forward.”
Richard Kopelman
CEO, APRIO“Aprio Ventures’ investment in Aiwyn reflects a shared conviction that the accounting profession deserves better technology. We’ve valued their partnership every step of the way.”
Justin A. Adams
CEO, AiwynTalk to us early
If you’re building technology for professional services — or for the businesses we serve — we want to hear from you early. Tell us what you’re building, and we’ll connect it to the Aprio team that would use it.