Venture Growth Associate
Adams Street Partners
Venture Growth Associate
Adams Street Partners
Global private markets investment management firm
Adams Street Partners (“Adams Street”) is a global private markets investment manager that has nearly $82 billion* in assets under management. The firm is 100% employee-owned, which fosters a positive and unique culture of collaboration, intellectual rigor, integrity, and a commitment to professional development. For the eighth year in a row, Adams Street was named one of Pension & Investments’ Best Places to Work in Money Management in 2025.
Employees operate as a single global team, integrating the expertise of the firm’s investment professionals across five strategies: primary investments, secondary investments, growth equity, private credit, and co-investments. Adams Street is considered a private markets pioneer and was inducted into the Private Equity Hall of Fame in 2000.
The firm was founded more than 50 years ago, and clients include leading public and corporate pension plans, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, registered investment advisors, and high net worth individuals worldwide.
Adams Street has offices in Abu Dhabi, Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Munich, Menlo Park, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
*As of September 30, 2026. Adams Street Partners’ methodology to calculate Assets Under Management (AUM) is based on fund net asset value (NAV), plus unfunded commitments, plus leverage, but excluding the effect of subscription lines of credit. The prior AUM methodology was based on investor commitments minus commitments to fully liquidated underlying partnerships. Such change in methodology was effective July 2026; however, for periods shown prior to December 31, 2025, Adams Street continues to use the previous methodology. This updated methodology more closely aligns with (i) the amount of assets managed on behalf of investors and (ii) the amount of capital available to make direct and/or partnership investments. Amounts stated by investment advisers in regulatory filings (“regulatory AUM”) have a prescribed methodology, which may, in some circumstances, differ from the methodology such adviser uses for other purposes, including marketing efforts. Additional information is available upon request.
Venture Growth Team Overview
Adams Street’s Venture Growth team backs ambitious founders building the technology and healthcare companies shaping the future. We invest in startups that have achieved meaningful scale while maintaining rapid growth in enormous markets.
Over five decades, the advantages of our firm’s integrated private markets platform – across direct and fund investing – have continued to compound. Leveraging deep market intelligence and longstanding relationships with the world’s leading venture firms, our Venture Growth team has been able to invest behind breakout companies across successive innovation cycles, including today’s AI inflection point. We’re proudly invested in companies such as: Baseten, ClickHouse, Glean, Zip, Fractile, Kalshi, Parloa, Altruist, Quince, Nourish, Equip Health, BillionToOne (Nasdaq: BLLN), Turquoise Health, among many others. Our team consists of 12 individuals working out of our Menlo Park office.
Venture Growth – Investment Associate, Technology:
The Venture Growth team is actively recruiting for a technology Investment Associate position in our Menlo Park, CA office. The Associate will serve as a core member of our lean deal teams (often just Partner + Associate) and contribute across the full investment lifecycle – from thesis development and sourcing through diligence, execution, and portfolio monitoring.
The individual will primarily be involved with and responsible for:
Requirements:
We offer a competitive U.S. benefits package designed to support health, financial security, and work-life balance. Highlights include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) with immediate vesting and employer match; profit sharing; flexible spending accounts (FSA); and paid parental leave, including adoption. Employees also receive generous paid time off, commuter benefits, employer-paid short- and long-term disability and life insurance, and access to additional voluntary benefits.
The below pay transparency range does not include discretionary bonus.
California Pay Transparency Range 140000 - 150000 USD
Global private markets investment management firm
Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with over $65 billion in assets under management, serving more than 740 institutional investors. It provides access to private markets through five strategies—Primary Investments, Secondary Investments, Co-investments, Growth Equity, and Private Credit—plus customized solutions and evergreen funds. The firm uses an integrated global platform and proprietary data from tracking over 34,100 companies and relationships with hundreds of general partners to inform investment decisions. Its goal is to deliver diversified private market exposure and attractive returns, earning revenue from management fees and carried interest, while remaining independently owned by its employees.
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