Carter Adamson
Partner at Atomico
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2025 - Current
Partner
2019 - 2024
Venture capital and growth equity investor, with a particular focus on anything Comms, Community or Media-related. Responsible for covering the US market for Atomico, which is a leading investment firm in London with over $2.7 billion under management. Atomico investments include: Compass, Clutter, Masterclass and Attentive.
Venture Partner
2015 - 2024
Board Member
2022 - 2024
Clutter is a provider of on-demand storage and moving services used to help customers store their physical belongings.
Raised $296,300,000.00 from Bracket Capital, Sand Hill Angels, SoftBank Vision Fund, Employee Stock Option Fund, Four Rivers Group, Atomico, Eastward Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and Fifth Wall.
Board Member
2021 - 2024
Commsor is your community operating system. Unlock insights, measure impact, and build a community-led company.
Raised $66,000,000.00 from Andreas Klinger, Neel Mehta, Slack Fund, Philip Sheibley, Nisha Baxi, AAFM, Des Traynor, Daria Byrne, Colin Kennedy and Kiren Srinivasan.
CEO & Cofounder
2012 - 2015
COO & Cofounder
2008 - 2012
Music subscription service acquired by Pandora
Entrepreneur in Residence
2008 - 2008
Head of Product
2005 - 2008
Lead product strategy and delivery of Skype's Desktop Products
Director, Product Strategy/Business Developement
1997 - 2004
AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites.
Raised $1,000,000,000.00 from Comcast Ventures and Google.
Senior Program Manager
1998 - 2000