Adam Dell

Dell was born in Houston, Texas, to a German-Jewish family.[2] He attended Tulane University and the University of Texas School of Law.[3] His elder brother Michael Dell is the founder of the Dell technology company.

In 2010, he had a daughter with model and actress Padma Lakshmi.[4]

He began his career working as a corporate attorney for Winstead Sechrest & Minick, in Austin, Texas, before joining the venture capital firm of Enterprise Partners in La Jolla, California.[5] He then joined Crosspoint Venture Partners, in Woodside, California, where he became a partner in 1999.[6] In 2000 he formed Impact Venture Partners, a $100mm early stage venture capital firm, in New York City.[6][7] Dell joined Austin Ventures as a venture partner in 2009. Dell joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 2018.

During the course of his career, Dell invested in numerous technology companies such as Hotjobs.com, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2002; Ingenio, which was acquired by AT&T in 2007; and OpenTable.[8][9][10]

Dell founded six companies, Clarity Money, which was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2018; Civitas Learning; Buzzsaw.com, which was acquired by AutoDesk in 2002; and MessageOne,[11] which was acquired by Dell, Inc. in 2008 [12] and Domain Money, a financial advisory business. Dell was an adjunct professor at both the Business School at Columbia University and the University of Texas School of Law.