Robin Murray

Partner & Head of Growth Equity Investments, Menlo Park

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Robin leads Adams Street's Growth Equity Team and focuses primarily on growth investments in Financial Technology.

Prior to joining Adams Street, he was a General Partner at 3i in its venture and growth equity funds. Previously, he served as the Chief Financial Officer for two venture-backed technology startups in Silicon Valley. He also held positions with McKinsey, J. Sainsbury PLC, and Ernst & Young in London.

Robin is Chairman of Adams Street’s Growth Equity Investment Committee and a member of the Executive Committee. He also serves on the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee as a leadership member.

CURRENT INVESTMENTS
Robin’s current Growth Equity investments include Abra, Aircall, Altruist, Dapper Labs, FalconX, Firstup (fka Dynamic Signal), GoCardless, Integral, Rimini Street (RMNI), Sorare, Stripe, Wiz and WorldPay.

PAST INVESTMENTS
Past Adams Street investments include Criteo (CRTO), Donuts (acquired by Ethos Capital), HighTail (acquired by OTEX), Punchh (acquired by PAR), RadiumOne (acquired by RTHM), RetailMeNot (SALE), Sauce Labs (acquired by TPG), Scytl, Telesign (acquired by BICS), and Zynga (ZNGA). Other investments include Appshop* (acquired by ATT), Bitfone* (acquired by HPQ), Demand Media (DMD), Fotolog (acquired by HIM.Pa), Merchant eSolutions* (acquired by Cielo S.A.), Mobile365* (acquired by SY now SAP), Omniture* (OMTR), Placeware* (acquired by MSFT), Vonage* (VG) and Yeahka (SEHK:9923).

*Investments from prior firm.

INVESTMENT AND OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE
34 years

ACADEMIC
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, MBA
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, ACA
Bristol University, BS

AUTHORED CONTENT
DAOs: The Biggest Corporate Innovation Since Limited Liability?
Blockchain and Digital Assets: Walking a Line Between Optimism and Risk
NFT Potential Extends Far Beyond Digital Art
Fintech: All Serviceable Addressable Markets are Not Created Equal

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