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What does Adams Street Partners invest in?
Adams Street Partners invests most often at Series B and Series C (50% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Wellbeing, Cloud Infrastructure and Digital-health.
Adams Street Partners highlights
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11 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B and Series C: 50% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 11 rounds, median $16M
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32 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Adams Street Partners is one of the industry's most respected and experienced global private markets investment managers.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $5.0M – $75M as they say
- Stages
- GrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- WellbeingCloud InfrastructureDigital-health
- Based in
- Chicago, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first188 appearances
- 2026
9 rounds
- Oct
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
14 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Jun
- JunCato NetworksGrowth$409MWith 4 others
- May
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- 2024
5 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Jul
- Jan
- Jan
- 2023
3 rounds
- May
- Feb
- Jan
- 2022
8 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Jul
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- 2021
5 rounds
- OctOrca SecuritySeries C · US$340MWith 4 others
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration24 named
AKAlec KersmanEXECUTIVE OFFICER OF ADAMS STREET PARTNERS, LLCiFiling they signed
ARAlicia R. PandoExecutive Officer of Adams Street Partners, LLC.iFiling they signed
BFBenjamin F. BlumExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
BABiddanda A. ThimmayaExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
BJBrett J. DavidExecutive Officer of the General PartneriFiling they signed
BGBrijesh Gary JeevarathnamExecutive Officer of Adams Street Partners, LLC.iFiling they signed
CJChristopher J. AckermanExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
DBDaniel B. EdelmanExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
DJDavid J. BrettExecutive Officer of Adams Street Partners, LLC.iFiling they signed
DADominic A. HoodExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
DJDonald J. EdwardsExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
EPElisha P. GouldExecutive Officer of the Member of the General Partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
EHEmily HenryExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
EREric R. MansellChief Legal Officer, Executive Vice President, Secretary and PartneriForm ADV
FMFrank M. PorcelliDirectoriFiling they signed
JGJ. Gary FencikExecutive Officer of the Member of the General Partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
JFJames Francis WalkerExecutive Officer of the Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
JSJason S. GullExecutive Officer of Adams Street Partners, LLCiFiling they signed
JBJeffrey Bowen AkersExecutive Officer of the Member of the General Partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
JJJeffrey James DiermeierDirectoriForm ADV
JTJeffrey Thomas DiehlExecutive Officer of the Member of the General Partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
JPJohn Peter AmboianDirectoriForm ADV
JTJonathan T. OkaExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
KPKelly P. MeldrumExecutive Officer of the Member of the General Partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 186 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$67Bassets it manages, 2 advisers combinedOct 2026
8+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Adams Street Partners, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 333783
Funds on its Form ADV
303 private funds, $50B in gross assets · filed Jun 2024
Private equity 302Venture 1
- Adams Street- PE Genesis Fund I L.P.Private equity2 investors$1.4B
- Adams Street- PE Genesis Fund II L.P.Private equity2 investors$1.2B
- Adams Street Sifai Fund L.P.Private equity2 investors$1.0B
- Adams Street Global Secondary Fund 7 L.P.Private equity72 investors$930M
- Adams Street 2014 Global Fund L.P.Private equity37 investors$929M
- Adams Street - PE Genesis Fund III L.P.Private equity2 investors$898M
- Adams Street - PKBS Private Equity Fund I GlobalPrivate equity2 investors$835M
- Adams Street RSP L.P.Private equity2 investors$803M
- JUNI Private Equity Fund A USD L.P.Private equity3 investors$803M
- Adams Street 2019 Global Fund L.P.Private equity11 investors$765M
And 293 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Adams Street Partners's funds
- Committed
- $465M
- Funds
- 3
- Vintages
- 2012 to 2021
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Jun 2026.
Minnesota State Board of Investments3 funds$465MFund Vintage Committed Adams Street Global Secondary Fund 7 2021 $265M Adams Street Global Secondary Fund 6 2017 $100M Adams Street Global Secondary Fund 5 2012 $100M
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed32 in all
Visible WorldBought by ComcastUndisclosedJun 2015
BorderfreeBought by Pitney Bowes$395MMay 2015
BrightRollBought by Yahoo!$640MNov 2014
JaspersoftBought by TIBCO Software Inc.$185MApr 2014
Pivot MedicalBought by Stryker CorporationUndisclosedJan 2014
Rempex PharmaceuticalsBought by The Medicines Company$464MDec 2013
OncoMed PharmaceuticalsListed$82MJul 2013
RetailMeNot, Inc.Listed$230MJun 2013
Incline TherapeuticsBought by The Medicines CompanyUndisclosedDec 2012
RetailMeNotBought by WhaleShark MediaUndisclosedDec 2012
ConvioBought by Blackbaud$294MJan 2012
SPS CommerceBought by GE Intelligent PlatformsUndisclosedJan 2011
RetailMeNot, Inc.Bought by RetailMeNot, Inc.UndisclosedDec 2010
EnforaBought by Novatel Wireless$70MNov 2010
StrataviaBought by Hewlett-PackardUndisclosedAug 2010
SportgenicBought by Mode Media (fka Glam Media)UndisclosedJul 2010
ConvioListedUndisclosedApr 2010
SPS CommerceListedUndisclosedApr 2010
The latest 20 here. An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.