Adams Street Partners

Summary

Adams Street Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1972. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, SaaS. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Myogen, Proteus Digital Health, VillageMD. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Adams Street Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Adams Street Partners performs on 2 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The fund was created by George Spencer, T. Bondurant French. The overall number of key employees were 70.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Adams Street Partners, startups are often financed by Trinity Ventures, Granite Ventures, Vertex Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Latterell Venture Partners, Accel, Vista Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vista Ventures, River Cities Capital Funds, Latterell Venture Partners.