Adams Street Partners
Employee-owned allocator with five decades of venture heritage.
Funds-of-FundsFirmGlobal
Target market
Venture and growth managers globally, established and emerging
Typical check
Institutional commitments scaled to fund size
Geography
Global
Overview
Adams Street Partners is an employee-owned private-markets firm whose lineage runs back to 1972 and the earliest institutional fund-of-funds programs. Venture has been core to the franchise throughout: it maintains long relationships with leading venture managers and underwrites new ones with one of the deepest fund-performance datasets in the industry. Adams Street invests across primaries, secondaries, co-investments and credit, so a manager relationship can extend well beyond the initial fund commitment.
Key facts
- Roots trace to 1972 and the first institutional fund-of-funds programs
- Independent and 100% employee-owned
- Deep venture heritage with decades of fund-level performance data
- Headquartered in Chicago with global offices