Adams Street Partners
Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment management firm with over 50 years of experience in private equity, private credit, and growth equity investing, managing more than $62 billion in assets under management and advisement. Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Chicago with offices in Boston, London, Munich, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, and Menlo Park, the firm serves a diverse global client base of institutional investors including endowments, foundations, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices. According to its website at adamsstreetpartners.com, Adams Street is dedicated to delivering consistent, long-term investment performance across economic cycles through a disciplined, research-driven approach to private market investing that has been refined over five decades.
Adams Street's investment platform, described at adamsstreetpartners.com, encompasses four primary strategies: primary fund investments in leading private equity and venture capital managers globally, secondary investments in private market fund interests, co-investments alongside top-tier general partners in high-quality portfolio companies, and private credit solutions including direct lending and credit fund investments. The firm's global reach and long-established manager relationships provide it with privileged access to leading private equity and credit managers around the world, enabling the construction of highly diversified portfolios that span stages, geographies, industries, and investment styles. Adams Street's fully integrated platform and collaborative investment culture create significant advantages in sourcing, evaluating, and monitoring private market opportunities.
Adams Street Partners has built a reputation for partnership, integrity, and consistent performance that has attracted and retained some of the world's most sophisticated institutional investors over its five decades of operation. The firm is employee-owned, ensuring that the interests of the investment team are fully aligned with those of its clients — a governance structure that has been central to Adams Street's culture and decision-making since its founding. According to adamsstreetpartners.com, the firm manages multiple strategy-specific funds across its primary, secondary, co-investment, and credit platforms, providing investors with flexible access to a comprehensive range of private market strategies through a trusted, long-tenured institutional manager with a demonstrated track record across generations of market cycles.