Adams Street Partners

Adams Street Partners is a global private market investment management firm that offers comprehensive solutions for its investors. As one of the independent, employee-owned firms, Adams Street has established a reputation for strong performance, an extensive knowledge base, and a disciplined investment approach that values quality over quantity. For more than 45 years, Adams Street has gained the experience to successfully manage through some of the most challenging investment cycles. The collective knowledge of the Adams Street team works collaboratively to leverage the global resources of the Firm in navigating the complexities of private markets. Its mission as a premier private markets investment manager is to provide world-class investment performance and maintain the confidence of our investors through our deep understanding of the global private marketplace and deliver exemplary client service.

Akers, Jeffrey B.

Partner and Head of Secondary Investments

Stephen Baranowski

Finance Director

Troy Barnett

Partner

Mattias de Beau

Partner

David Brett

Partner

Gail Carey

Principal

Chung, Frederick

Partner and Head of Credit Underwriting, Private Credit

T. Bondurant French

Executive Chairman

Joseph Goldrick

Partner, Secondary Investments

Miguel Gonzalo

Head of Investment Strategy

Terry Gould

Senior Partner, Growth Equity

Doris Guo

Partner

Gregory Holden

Partner

Brijesh Jeevarathnam

Partner and Co-Head, Global Venture Fund Investments

Alex Kessel

Partner - Co-Investments

Ali Lauer

Investor

Justin Lawrence

Principal

Alejandra Lesch

Partner for Operational Due Diligence and Portfolio Monitor

Malhotra, Saguna R.

Partner

Ross Morrison

Partner

Robin Murray

Partner and Head of Growth Equity Investments

Pando, Alicia

CTO

Derek Piunti

Principal, Security Engineer and Help Desk Manager

Jamie Raibley

Principal

William Sacher

Partner and Head of Private Credit

Yar-Ping Soo

Partner

Michael Taylor

Partner

Tobias True

Partner

James Walker

COO

Wallwork, Benjamin

Partner

Waslin, Craig D.

Partner

Ling Jen Wu

Principal

Jian Zhang

Partner

Past deals in Series E

Dremio

Series E in 2022
Dremio is a data lake engine that offers tools to help streamline and curate data. It accelerates analytical processing for BI tools, data science, machine learning, and SQL clients, learns from data and queries and makes data engineers, analysts, and data scientists more productive, and helps data consumers to be more self-sufficient. Jacques Nadeau and Tomer Shiran founded the company in 2015 in Mountain View, California.

Visier

Series E in 2021
Visier People is a people analytics and workforce planning solution, provides you with answers to hundreds of pre-built, best practice questions about your workforce, across HR and business topics. Designed by people data and HR experts to include the answers you need to strategically manage a complex workforce, Visier People supports you and your people analytics and planning needs, from start to finish. With an unmatched all-inclusive subscription model, Visier People gives you access to a Customer Success team that doesn’t stop with onboarding your data, but is focused on continuously delivering you with new business value, so that your returns grow and grow.

Iterable

Series E in 2021
Iterable is the top rated AI-powered customer communication platform that helps organizations like Redfin, Priceline, Calm, and Box to activate customers with joyful interactions at scale. With Iterable, organizations drive high growth with individualized, harmonized and dynamic communications that engage customers throughout the entire lifecycle at the right time.

TurnKey Vacation Rentals

Series E in 2019
TurnKey Vacation Rentals is a full-service property management company specializing in luxury and premium vacation rentals across top travel destinations in the United States. The company aims to deliver a consistent and high-quality experience for guests that parallels that of a fine hotel, while also enhancing the management, marketing, and financial returns for vacation rental homeowners. Utilizing proprietary smart home technology, including digital locks, housekeeping schedulers, and noise monitors, TurnKey collaborates with local teams to ensure exceptional experiences for guests at every property.

GoCardless

Series E in 2019
At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. And bank account data is a powerful tool for businesses to make better, faster decisions. So we’re making it easy to use both. Collect payments – domestic or international – without the chasing, stress, or expensive fees. And securely access data from your customers’ bank accounts to enhance your products and manage risk, with connections available to 2,300+ banks across Europe. Today, we help over 75,000+ businesses around the world to power their payments. We’re a global team, with offices in London, Paris, Riga, Melbourne and New York.

Dynamic Signal

Series E in 2018
Dynamic Signal is an employee communication and engagement platform connecting companies with their valued asset and their employees. The company is driving reach, productivity, and advocacy provides a better and faster way for employees and their audiences to receive enterprise signals. It increases productivity and empowers advocacy by informing and engaging employees with timely, relevant content across channels and devices. Dynamic Signal ensures communications are received by employees and their audiences alike. It offers influencer recruiting, collaboration support, member rewards, advisory support, and account management services. Hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises, including 85 of the Fortune 500, trust Dynamic Signal to deliver their enterprise signal in 21 countries around the globe. Founded in 2010, the company’s world class customers include IBM, Edelman, Ingram Micro, Salesforce, Autodesk, Domo, SurveyMonkey, and Humana. Dynamic Signal is based in San Francisco, California.

Mintigo

Series E in 2017
Mintigo Inc. is a company that develops an artificial intelligence-based customer engagement and predictive analytics platform aimed at enhancing B2B marketing and lead generation. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Mintigo's platform assists businesses in identifying potential purchases by specific customers, thereby enabling more effective marketing strategies. Key features of the platform include predictive ideal customer profile (ICP) discovery, prioritization of fit and buying stages, predictive audience generation, and account-based marketing (ABM) support. The platform also facilitates new pipeline generation, customer marketing upsell and cross-sell opportunities, insight-driven engagement, and sales enablement. Mintigo's clientele includes notable companies such as Getty Images, Oracle, and Red Hat, who utilize its services to enhance their marketing efforts and optimize the sales cycle. As of October 2019, Mintigo operates as a subsidiary of Anaplan, Inc.

LogRhythm

Series E in 2014
LogRhythm, Inc. is a provider of a comprehensive security intelligence and analytics platform that helps organizations manage cyber risks. Its platform integrates next-generation security information and event management (SIEM), log management, network and endpoint forensics, user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), and security orchestration and automation. This unified approach enables enterprises to efficiently detect, respond to, and mitigate various cyber threats, including ransomware and advanced persistent threats. The platform supports security operations centers (SOCs) by securing both IT and operational technology environments across cloud, physical, and virtual infrastructures. Additionally, LogRhythm offers professional services, compliance solutions, and training to enhance threat detection and response capabilities. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, LogRhythm serves a diverse range of sectors, including finance, healthcare, and government, both in the United States and internationally.

Couchbase

Series E in 2014
Couchbase is a NoSQL vendor that develops Couchbase Server, an open-source, NoSQL, document-oriented database optimized for interactive applications. Couchbase’s NoSQL mobile solution is comprised of Couchbase Server, Couchbase Sync Gateway, and Couchbase Lite, a lightweight NoSQL database designed for the device. Couchbase's mission is to be the NoSQL database that revolutionizes digital innovation. The platform provides unmatched agility and manageability – as well as unparalleled performance at any scale – to deliver ever-richer and ever-more-personalized customer experiences. Built with the most powerful NoSQL technology, Couchbase was architected on top of an open source foundation for the massively interactive enterprise.

Damballa

Series E in 2014
Damballa specializes in advanced threat protection, focusing on the detection of active threats that evade traditional security measures. The company employs innovative solutions that leverage data science and machine learning to identify successful infections and assess the risk posed by compromised devices, regardless of their type or operating system. Damballa's technology is designed to uncover threats without needing prior knowledge of their existence, making it effective across various threat vectors. The firm provides security for nearly a billion endpoints globally, serving enterprises across multiple sectors, as well as major internet service providers and telecommunications companies. By addressing issues such as botnet formation, Damballa plays a critical role in enhancing internet security and safeguarding businesses from evolving cyber threats.

ThreatMetrix

Series E in 2014
ThreatMetrix Inc. specializes in providing security and fraud prevention solutions for businesses across various industries globally. The company’s flagship offering, the TrustDefender Cybercrime Protection Platform, enables real-time assessment of users and devices to identify potential fraudsters and hackers. This platform incorporates context-based authentication methods to mitigate online fraud and safeguard access to critical enterprise applications, while also defending against threats like account takeovers and payment fraud. Additionally, ThreatMetrix offers tailored security solutions, fraud prevention analysis, and forensic analysis services. Its clientele spans sectors such as e-commerce, insurance, healthcare, government, and financial institutions. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Jose, California, ThreatMetrix operates as a subsidiary of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc., leveraging insights from over 1.4 billion anonymized user identities to make informed authentication and trust decisions on a daily basis.

Spiceworks

Series E in 2014
Spiceworks, Inc. is a marketplace that connects information technology professionals with tech vendors, facilitating the adoption and management of various technologies. Founded in 2006 and based in Austin, Texas, the company provides a suite of online tools designed for system administrators, network engineers, and technicians. These tools include networking resources for setup and troubleshooting, IT security features such as SSL checkers and port scanners, and a cloud cost monitor for platforms like AWS and Azure. Additionally, Spiceworks offers a cloud-based inventory solution that identifies IP-enabled devices within a network and provides marketing services for technology brands, including social media and content marketing. As of September 2019, Spiceworks operates as a subsidiary of Ziff Davis B2B Focus, Inc.

Hightail

Series E in 2013
Hightail provides digital transformation program services. They organize and protect data and content through business processes inside and outside their organization with the information management platform. Their services include customer services, advisory, consulting, learning, and managed services.

Damballa

Series E in 2012
Damballa specializes in advanced threat protection, focusing on the detection of active threats that evade traditional security measures. The company employs innovative solutions that leverage data science and machine learning to identify successful infections and assess the risk posed by compromised devices, regardless of their type or operating system. Damballa's technology is designed to uncover threats without needing prior knowledge of their existence, making it effective across various threat vectors. The firm provides security for nearly a billion endpoints globally, serving enterprises across multiple sectors, as well as major internet service providers and telecommunications companies. By addressing issues such as botnet formation, Damballa plays a critical role in enhancing internet security and safeguarding businesses from evolving cyber threats.

Borderfree

Series E in 2012
Borderfree is a provider of cross-border e-commerce solutions, enabling retailers in the United States to sell products to consumers in approximately 100 countries and territories. The company, founded in 1999 and headquartered in New York, operates a proprietary technology and services platform that manages the entire international e-commerce order life cycle. This includes multi-currency pricing, payment processing, customs clearance, global logistics, and fraud management, ensuring a seamless shopping experience. Its clientele comprises various retailers, department stores, and brands that offer a diverse range of products, including apparel, jewelry, sporting goods, home decor, and toys. Borderfree, which rebranded from FiftyOne in 2013, focuses on helping businesses enhance their sales and revenue through efficient international transactions.

Convio

Series E in 2007
Convio, Inc. is a provider of on-demand software and services aimed at nonprofit organizations in North America, facilitating their fundraising efforts, advocacy, and mission support through the Internet. Central to its offerings is the Constituent360 platform, an online constituent relationship management solution that encompasses modules for fundraising, advocacy, email marketing, and web content management. This platform enables nonprofits to monitor constituent behavior by tracking activities such as online donations, event registrations, and advocacy initiatives. Additionally, Constituent360 features tools for querying and reporting, allowing clients to analyze data to enhance their campaigns. The company also offers DataSync software to synchronize constituent information with offline donor databases, along with fee-based internet strategy, account management, deployment, and client support services. Established in 1999 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Convio aims to enhance the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations through its comprehensive suite of tools and services.

Actelis Networks

Series E in 2007
Actelis Networks is the provider of high performance, scalable broadband over copper solutions to Telco, Mobile, and IoT networks. Actelis turns copper into a strategic asset that enables delivering reliable, high-speed Ethernet services and broadband access to more places and devices more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively than can be done by using fiber optics or microwave.

MX Logic

Series E in 2006
MX Logic, Inc. provides managed email and Web security services in the United States and internationally. It offers Email Defense Solutions that protect against email-borne threats and help businesses to meet compliance regulations via email storage, retrieval, and surveillance. The company also provides Message Archiving for businesses to monitor, store, and retrieve company email messages to comply with electronic security regulations; and Web Defense Service that blocks Web threats, including spyware, viruses, and phishing attacks. It serves public companies, as well as companies in healthcare, financial services, and law and insurance markets. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

Quallaby Corporation

Series E in 2003
Quallaby Corporation is a privately-held company.

comScore

Series E in 2003
comScore, Inc. is an information and analytics company that specializes in measuring audiences, consumer behavior, and advertising across various media platforms globally. The company provides a range of ratings and planning products, including Media Metrix and Mobile Metrix for measuring website and app usage, Video Metrix for assessing digital video consumption alongside TV metrics, and Plan Metrix for understanding consumer lifestyles. Additionally, it offers validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) to ensure digital ad visibility and audience targeting, as well as Campaign Ratings for comprehensive campaign evaluation across platforms. Its services also include TV Essentials, StationView Essentials, and OnDemand Essentials, which analyze viewing patterns and transactional data. Furthermore, comScore delivers analytics for the film industry, measuring movie viewership and box office performance in real-time. Founded in 1999 and based in Reston, Virginia, comScore combines extensive digital, TV, and movie intelligence, helping over 3,200 clients worldwide optimize their advertising efforts and audience engagement.
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