Adams Street Partners (“Adams Street”) is a global private markets investment manager that has $65 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 Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Munich, Menlo Park, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
About the Internship Program
Adams Street’s Internship Program provides an engaging and highly educational experience to undergraduates seeking to build a career in private markets investing. Our Interns gain a broad range of investment exposure by providing research, analytical and deal process support to our teams. The program is designed for undergraduates in the penultimate or final year of their bachelor’s degree, ideally in business, finance or economics looking to gain a foundational understanding of the private markets industry. The internship program offers a unique set of financial training, professional development, and mentorship opportunities throughout the program.
Highlights of our program include:
- First-hand experience of life as an investment professional in private markets investing on live deals
- Exposure to deal flow, strategy and operations as an observer in investment team meetings
- Access to internal training resources and the guidance of a mentor to bridge the educational gap
- Human Resources sessions on professionalism in the workplace and career path coaching
Primary Investment Team
The Primary Investment Team at Adams Street invests in premier buyout and venture capital funds at the time they are being raised. The team has been an active fund investor since 1979 and has established relationships with some of the world’s most sought-after General Partners. Investing with a broad global mandate and across a range of geographies, stages, and subclasses, the Primary Team has consistently delivered strong risk-adjusted returns and liquidity across multiple business and economic cycles.
Role Responsibilities:
- Investment underwriting and due diligence
- Sector and thematic research
- Firm & client-related projects
Key Candidate Attributes
At Adams Street, we hold ourselves to high standards and expect the same of our internship applicants. Ideal candidates must have a genuine interest in alternative investments. Additional characteristics of a successful Intern at our firm are:
- Strong academic credentials with a major in finance, accounting, economics, or related studies
- History of relevant internship experience, schoolwork, and/or extracurricular activities within the private equity, investment banking, investment management, and valuation fields
- Strong excel proficiency required, with prior financial modeling experience preferred
- Demonstrable initiative, commitment toward excellence in work and great attention-to-detail
- Team-oriented mindset with a heavy emphasis on written and verbal communication
- Excellent technical foundations in corporate finance and accounting
- Self-disciplined, takes accountability and operates with high integrity
- Fluency in an Indian language would be preferred
This is a full-time internship (5 days/week). Candidates must be able to commit 3-6 months to working in the role.
