Adam Hopkins

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Adam Hopkins

A growth and private equity investor with more than two decades focused on technology companies.

Adam is a co-founder of NextEquity Partners. He previously served as a Managing Director and founding principal of Elevation Partners, where he invested across enterprise and consumer technology. He leads internal operations at the firm and works closely on all the firm’s investments and with management teams.

His investment experience includes companies such as Yelp, MarketShare, Sonos, Airbnb, The RealReal, Business Talent Group, Venafi, Lyft, Ring, Mfour, SentinelOne, and Arctic Wolf. He has worked across transaction structuring, due diligence, financings, governance, firm operations, and the strategic decisions that accompany scale.

Before Elevation, Adam invested in technology at Silver Lake Partners and evaluated private equity opportunities in technology, media, and communications at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners.

Experience
NextEquity Partners · Elevation Partners · Silver Lake · Morgan Stanley Capital Partners
Education
M.B.A., Stanford Graduate School of Business, Arjay Miller Scholar
A.B., Economics, Princeton University, summa cum laude
Selected boards
The Bouqs and MFour (observer); formerly MarketShare and Business Talent Group
Perspective
Growth investing, diligence, transaction structure, and portfolio strategy