Buyout PE
Adams Street Partners
Adams Street Partners acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from United States. It states a focus on education, environmental & safety, financial services and healthcare & life sciences.
Stated investment criteria
What Adams Street Partners says it buys
Read from Adams Street Partners’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.
| Enterprise value it states | $150m to $750m1 |
| Transaction types | Growth1 |
| Founded | 19843 |
| People listed on its team page | 452 |
Sources
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Regulatory record
How Adams Street Partners is registered
From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.
| Adviser status | SEC registered |
| Regulatory assets under management | $66bn |
| Employees | 318 |
| Private funds advised | 329 · $58bn gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 109358 |
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Adams Street Partners lists on its own website. No investment years are published.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Case Studies 1 | — | — | — |
| Case Studies 2 | — | — | — |
| Case Studies 3 | — | — | — |
| Internet Explorer | — | — | — |
| Privateequityawards | — | — | — |
Compiled from Adams Street Partners’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which Adams Street Partners is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 6 recorded exits, most recently in 2022.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peerless Network | Sold | Infobip | 2022 | $200m |
| RadiumOne | Sold | — | 2017 | $22m |
| ServiceMax | Sold | General Electric | 2016 | $915m |
| Naurex | Sold | Allergan | 2015 | $560m |
| PneumRx | Sold | BTG plc | 2014 | $475m |
| BrightRoll | Sold | Yahoo! | 2014 | $640m |
Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.
Valuation context
Transaction values in Education
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