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:
- All aspects of investment due diligence: business, market, management, competitive, financial/returns modeling, cap table analysis and legal diligence
- Conducting extensive market research to bring sector insights to the team and identify potential new investment opportunities in the technology ecosystem
- Developing relationships with leading private companies by attending conferences and proactively meeting with entrepreneurs and other investors
- Preparing investment memoranda and presenting analysis and recommendations to the Investment Committee
- Working on selected internal processes and strategic initiatives
Requirements:- 2-4 years of experience in technology investment banking, consulting, principal investing (mid/late-stage VC, growth equity or PE), or analytical experience at a high-growth technology company
- Demonstrated enthusiasm for technology and emerging business models; active tracking of important companies, products, and market developments to form independent views about where technology is headed
- High-ownership, detail-oriented self-starter who can manage multiple workstreams and competing deadlines
- Advanced analytical / quantitative ability and excel modeling skills
- Outstanding relationship-building and communication skills to engage effectively with founders, investors, and other internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to structure and present complex ideas and information in a simple persuasive form, both written and orally
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
$140,000-$150,000 USD
