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Adams Street Partners

Investment firm · Founded 1972 · Active in 2026

Adams Street Partners is an investment firm based in USA, founded in 1972. The page below shows 52 Power Law outcomes from Adams Street Partners's portfolio — 44 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 5 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Fintech · Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA · Canada · Ireland. Adams Street ranks #331 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

52 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #331 · Global · 52 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 42% 5y
44
Decacorns → 0% 5y
4
Thoroughbreds ↑ 57% 5y
36
01 · Exits

Adams Street’s biggest exits.

Adams Street portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
buyout · 2010
Entered Series B+Now $24.2B
IPO · 2007
Entered Series B+Now $17.6B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $12.7B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series ANow $5.9B
$4.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $161M
$4.0B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $3.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $3.4B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $2.9B
$2.0B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $1.9B
$346M IPO · 2023
Entered Series ANow $1.8B
$630M IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $1.7B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $1.5B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series B+Now $1.5B
$225M IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $1.4B
$1.2B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.2B
$1.2B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$1.1B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $1.1B
$1.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 52 Adams Street Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA40
  2. Canada2
  3. Ireland2
  4. UK2
  5. Sweden2
  6. Australia1
  7. France1
  8. Israel1
  9. Germany1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software12
  2. Fintech10
  3. Biotech & Life Sciences8
  4. Health Tech & Medtech6
  5. Cybersecurity5
  6. AI4
  7. Marketing4
  8. Other1
  9. Edtech1
  10. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+46
  2. Series A3
Estimated holdings

Adams Street’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Adams Street’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 5 companies where Adams Street is a named shareholder, worth about $526M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Cato NetworksSecurity · Unicorn 5% $4.8B $240M
  2. 2 Reify HealthHealth · Unicorn 2% $4.8B $96M
  3. 3 AltruistFintech · Unicorn 5% $1.9B $95M
  4. 4 ClassDojoEducation · Unicorn 5% $1.2B $62M
  5. 5 FalconXFintech · Unicorn 0.4% $8.0B $32M

Estimated value = Adams Street’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Adams Street also appears inside investor groups in Dispatch Health, Orca Security, PPRO, Remote, Zip, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

04 · Portfolio market map

Adams Street's 52 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
52 of 52 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Adams Street stack up?

Adams Street in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Adams Street's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

117 founders across the 52 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Oxford and Check Point are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States55
Israel15
India14
Canada10
United Kingdom7
Netherlands3
Russia2
Australia2
China2
Portugal1
+1 more →
UniversityCount
University of Oxford6
Stanford University6
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem5
Harvard Business School5
Johns Hopkins University4
Carnegie Mellon University3
Berkeley3
Dalhousie University2
University of Manitoba2
University of Toronto2
+47 more →
Origin companyCount
Check Point8
Alphabet | Google7
Microsoft6
Airbnb3
eBay3
Castlight Health2
Meta2
WeWork2
Imperva2
SAP1
+33 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Adams Street Partners

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Adams Street on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about Adams Street Partners

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Adams Street — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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