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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 · Ireland · Canada. Adams Street ranks #331 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
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.
Adams Street’s selected top 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.
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Cato Networks
5%
$4.8B
$240M
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2
Reify Health
2%
$4.8B
$96M
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3
Altruist
5%
$1.9B
$95M
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4
ClassDojo
5%
$1.2B
$62M
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5
FalconX
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 →
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.
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USA41
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Ireland2
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Canada2
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Sweden2
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UK2
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Germany1
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Israel1
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France1
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Other B2B Software13
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Fintech9
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Biotech & Life Sciences8
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Health Tech & Medtech6
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Cybersecurity5
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AI4
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Marketing4
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Edtech1
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eCommerce & Marketplaces1
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Other1
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Series B+46
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Series A3
Adams Street's 52 Power Law outcomes.
How does Adams Street stack up?
Adams Street in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Adams Street's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
129 founders across the 52 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Check Point are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Adams Street.
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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