Corporate investor
Adams Street Partners, LLC
Adams Street Partners, LLC is a leading private equity and venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1972 as the growth equity division of First National Bank of Chicago, Adams Street Partners became an independent firm in 2001. With over 50 years of experience in the private equity sector, Adams Street Partners has established itself as a prominent fund-of-funds manager and co-investor, managing over $60 billion in assets. The firm employs a multi-strategy approach, investing across primary, secondary, growth equity, credit, and co-investment strategies. Its investment focus spans several sectors, including technology, healthcare, consumer products, and industrials, with an emphasis on identifying and backing high-performing managers in both established and emerging markets across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Investment focus
- Sectors
- TechnologyHealthcareManufacturing and industrialsConsumerInfrastructureSMEsEnergy and powerAgriculture and food
- Stages and strategies
- SeedGrowthFund investmentsBuyoutProject financePrivate credit
- Regions
- Northern Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa
Fund commitments
- Altor 2003 Fund
- Mainsail Partners III
- L Capital 3
- Madison Dearborn Capital Partners VI
- Essex Woodlands Health Ventures IV, L.P
- Piper Private Equity V
- Brentwood Associates VIII, L.P
- Core Capital Partners III
- Alta Partners VIII, L.P
- Banc Fund V, L.P
- Heritage Fund II, L.P
- Amadeus III
- Transportation Resource Partners III
- Capital Resource Partners IV, L.P
- Segulah IV
- Resolute IV
- U.S. Venture Partners V
- Clyde Blowers Capital Fund III
- Brockway Moran & Partners Fund III, L.P
- Affinity Asia Pacific Fund V
- Institutional Venture Partners VI
- Sierra Ventures V, L.P
- Enterprise Partners VI, L.P
- Rocketship.vc Fund II
- Mayfair Equity Partners I
- Redpoint Ventures I, L.P
- Sterling Capital Partners III, L.P
- Segulah III
- Palamon European Equity, L.P
- Matrix Partners IV, L.P
- Nordwind Capital Fonds
- Telecom Partners II, L.P
- CX Partners
- Clayton
- Dubilier & Rice VIII
- TA IX, L.P
- Telecom Partners III, L.P
- Terra Firma Capital Partners II, L.P
- U.S. Venture Partners VI, L.P
- TA Associates XI
- Sprout VII, L.P
- HitecVision VII
- Banc Fund IV, L.P
- Arsenal Capital Partners II, L.P
- Phoenix Equity Partners 2010, L.P
- Ethos Fund VI
- Battery Ventures V, L.P
- Sprout Growth II
- Summit Partners Private Equity Fund VII
- ABS Capital Partners VI
- Essex Woodlands Health Ventures VIII
- IPEF IV LP
- Austin Ventures VII, L.P
- Investindustrial IV
- Institutional Venture Partners VIII, L.P
- Phoenix Equity Partners 2006 Fund
- Lake Capital Partners, L.P
- Palamon European Equity II
- Summit Partners Venture Capital Fund II, L.P
- Banexi Ventures 4, FCPR
- ACCEL-KKR Capital Partners CV III, L.P
- The Resolute Fund, L.P
- Prime Ventures IV
- Ignition Venture Partners V
- New Enterprise Associates VIII, L.P
- Core Capital Partners II
- Madison Dearborn Capital Partners II, L.P
- Summit Ventures VI, L.P
- Summit Accelerator Fund, L.P
- Terra Firma Capital Partners III, L.P
- Adams Street 2011 Emerging Markets Fund LP
- Beech Tree Private Equity Fund 1
- EQT VI Fund
- IPEF III
- Transportation Resource Partners IV
- Three Arch Partners III, L.P
- Banc Fund VI, L.P
- AnaCap Financial Partners Fund II, L.P
- Bain Capital Fund X
- Caltius Partners III, L.P
- Brockway Moran & Partners Fund II, L.P
- Brockway Moran & Partners Fund, L.P
- Water Street Healthcare Partners II
- Affinity Asia Pacific Fund IV
- Affinity Asia Pacific Fund II, L.P
- Essex Woodlands Health Ventures VI, L.P
- TSG Capital Fund II
- Bastion Capital Fund
- Green Mountain Partners III, L.P
- Interwest Partners VII, L.P
- Prime Technology Ventures III
- Trivest Fund V
- Cortec Group Fund V
- Halder Germany II
- KV Asia Capital Fund
- HitecVision VI
- European Mezzanine Fund III, L.P
- Serent Capital Partners, L.P
- Navis Asia Fund IV, L.P
- Palamon Auxiliary Partnership 2013, L.P
- Brentwood Associates IX, L.P
- Hutton Collins Mezzanine Partners, L.P
- Duke Street Capital IV, L.P
- ChrysCapital VIII
- Sun Capital Partners III, L.P
- Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund VIII
- Clearview Capital Fund III
- Polish Enterprise Fund VI
- The KKR 1996 Fund
- Essex Woodlands Health Ventures VII, L.P
- Investindustrial VI
- Baring Vostok Private Equity Fund IV, L.P.
- Caltius Partners IV
- Oak Investment Partners VIII, L.P
- Institutional Venture Partners VII, L.P
- Saints Capital V, L.P
- ABS Ventures IX, L.P
- Nordic Capital V, L.P
- Sprout Capital IX, L.P
- Index Ventures IV, L.P
- Berkshire Fund VI, L.P
- Palamon European Equity IV
- Arsenal Capital Partners, L.P
- Castile Ventures, L.P
- Heritage Fund III, L.P
- Summit Ventures IV
- Cypress Merchant Banking Partners I
- Index Ventures III, L.P
- Verdane Idun Fund I L.P
- CoinFund Ventures I
- KV Asia Capital Fund II
- Apollo Investment Fund X, L.P
- Maguar I Fund
- Ethos Private Equity Fund V
- Sun Capital Partners IV, L.P.
- Water Street Healthcare Partners III
- Wellington Partners Ventures II
- TPG PARTNERS IX, L.P.
- New Mountain Finance Corporation
- Saints Capital Avalon, L.P.
- Capital Resource Lenders III, L.P
- France Special Situations Fund I
- U.S. Venture Partners IV
- New Enterprise Associates XI, L.P
- Capitalworks Private Equity II
- Genstar Capital Partners IV, L.P
- Austin Ventures VI, L.P
- ABS Capital Partners VII
- Charterhouse Capital Partners IX
- Astorg III, FCPR
- Alta Biopharma III, L.P
- A91 Partners Fund I L.P
- Austin Ventures IV
- Trivest Growth Investment Fund
- Summit Subordinated Debt Fund II, L.P
- Alta California Partners IV, L.P
- ArcLight Energy Partners Fund II, LP
- Nordic Capital IV, L.P
- AnaCap Financial Partners, L.P
- IVP Fund II
- Palatine Private Equity Impact Investing Fund
Sources
- Partner Researchers, accessed 14 November 2026