Adams Street Partners

www.adamsstreetpartners.com

Adams Street manages $65 billion in assets across primary, secondary, growth equity, credit, and co-investment strategies for more than 740 institutional investors. They focus on investing in rapidly growing companies across software, mobile, healthcare, security, and financial technology, while pursuing opportunities across the entire capital structure targeting middle-market companies with enterprise value of $150-$750 million.

Check Size

$150M - $750M

Stages

Growth, Late Stage

Focus Areas

Enterprise Saas, Vertical Saas, Ai Ml

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Investment Thesis

Adams Street Partners is dedicated to being the premier private markets investment manager by leveraging over five decades of relationships and data to develop unique private market insights and investment opportunities globally. They believe in putting clients first, investing significant time to understand client objectives and goals, and packaging their investment capabilities into customized solutions that meet evolving needs. Their professional philosophy is simple and unchanged from their inception: providing outstanding client service based on experience, integrity, and always.

What Sets Them Apart

100% employee owned, creating powerful alignment of economic interests with clients
Over 50 years of private markets experience since 1972 with 590+ advisory board seats and investments with 500+ global general partners
Global footprint across 15 offices in key locations with 340+ employees and 110+ investment professionals speaking 30+ languages
Proprietary analytics platform (Foresight) providing on-demand access to custom analysis of private markets investment portfolios
Integrated platform that shares networks, market intelligence, and data across investment teams as a key asset
History of pioneering breakthrough investment strategies including the industry's first fund of funds (1979), first dedicated secondary funds (1988), and first separate accounts (1984)
Highly advanced in-house analytics and decades of proprietary web-based, multi-currency research supporting investment research and due diligence