Adams Street Partners

What is Adams Street Partners?

Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager offering comprehensive solutions across a range of asset classes. With $61 billion in assets under management and a 50+ year history, they focus on investing in private equity, private credit, and other investment strategies to clients worldwide, including growth equity strategies and co-investments.

As a firm with a rich heritage and a pioneering spirit, they're renowned for developing breakthrough investment solutions relevant to diverse audiences in evolving markets. They operate with a foundation of trust and integrity, fostering valuable relationships through a global network, providing unique and effective long-lasting partnerships. Their investment approach combines a global platform of relationships supported by advanced analytics, aiming to invest in buyout, venture capital, growth equity, and other private market fund strategies.

They target opportunities across the entire capital structure, with a focus on middle-market companies valued between $150 million to $750 million. Adams Street Partners invests a minimum of $10 million and a maximum of $30 million, with a sweet spot of $15 million in individual companies, emphasizing early stage, expansion, later stage, MBO/LBO, special situations, distressed debt, seed, Series A, and Series B rounds. They specialize in a range of industries including software (Web, Marketplace, SaaS), IT & TMT, education, biotech, business solutions, FinTech & financial services, hardware & manufacturing, retail & e-commerce, IoT & wearables, clean tech, AI & big data, and developer tools.

With dedicated investment strategies and a collaborative approach, the firm seeks sustainable success in the increasingly complex private markets sector. Adams Street Partners is 100% employee-owned, with their team investing alongside clients in all products, ensuring alignment of interests and dedication to client success.

What they say:

Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with investments in more than 30 countries across five continents. Adams Street's Growth Equity team has been investing in venture and growth stage companies since 1972.

What we look for: We invest in rapidly growing, category-leading venture and growth companies across multiple stages, targeting application software, cloud infrastructure, financial technology, consumer, and healthcare.

How we help: We have tailored our portfolio support with a goal of offering highly impactful financial, operational, and talent services to CEOs and entrepreneurs.