Accolade Partners

Profile

Accolade Partners is a venture capital and growth equity fund of funds headquartered in Washington, DC, and founded in 2000. The firm specializes in constructing concentrated portfolios of hard-to-access funds. Their team comprises deeply knowledgeable and cohesive members with a focus on building strong partnerships with their fund managers. Accolade seeks to provide differentiated exposure to their investors through their selectivity, discipline, and partnership approach.

Accolade invests in fund managers across technology and healthcare sectors, with a focus on venture capital, growth equity, and blockchain. They target seed and Series A managers as well as emerging managers, and implement a strategy to avoid dilution of returns while aiming for early liquidity in three to five years. Their empowerment funds further invest in managers from historically undercapitalized communities. Accolade manages its investments with a total firm-wide asset under management (AUM) strategy, seeking the best-of-breed managers for optimal returns.

The firm has made notable allocations in funds involved in high-growth software and emerging technology sectors, continuously supporting innovative strategies through their fund selections. Accolade Partners maintains strong relationships with top-tier managers to secure hard-to-access investment opportunities in varied technology and blockchain-focused sectors.