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Harbourvest Partners, LLC

Boston, MASEC-registered investment adviserCRD 109846

Filed as HARBOURVEST PARTNERS, LLC

Harbourvest Partners, LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Boston, MA, registered since 1996, reporting over $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated July 16, 2026.

29 years
registered since 1996
$191,177,888,563
assets under management
3 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Fixed fees and more
None
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Harbourvest Partners, LLC compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Harbourvest Partners, LLC reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; fixed fees (other than subscription fees); performance-based fees.

Where is Harbourvest Partners, LLC located?

Harbourvest Partners, LLC's principal office is in Boston, MA, according to its Form ADV; the August 2026 filing also lists 1 other office (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Harbourvest Partners, LLC registered with the SEC or a state?

Harbourvest Partners, LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 1996. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 109846.

How much does Harbourvest Partners, LLC manage?

Harbourvest Partners, LLC reports $191,177,888,563 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated July 16, 2026 (83% discretionary).

How have Harbourvest Partners, LLC's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Harbourvest Partners, LLC: Regulatory assets under management: $90,867,086,439 in the October 2021 data and $191,177,888,563 in the October 2026 data, up 110%. Total employees: 739 in October 2021 and 1,204 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Harbourvest Partners, LLC serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies) (314); pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans) (2).

Which custodians does Harbourvest Partners, LLC use?

Harbourvest Partners, LLC's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists The Northern Trust Company as a custodian holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Harbourvest Partners, LLC report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports no disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. The detail of any item is on the firm's SEC record: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/109846

What changed in Harbourvest Partners, LLC's recent Form ADV filings?

In the June 2026 filing data: Added an office in Bogota.

From the Form ADV filing

Every figure below is as the firm filed it with regulators, as of October 2026.

How the firm is compensated

Item 5.E
  • A percentage of assets under your management
  • Fixed fees (other than subscription fees)
  • Performance-based fees

Item 5.E lists how the firm is compensated for its advice; Items 5.B, 6.A, and 7.A show whether its people or related companies can also earn commissions. Percentage of assets, fixed, hourly, subscription, and performance-based fees come from clients (a performance-based fee depends on investment results); commissions come with a sale or a trade, often from the company behind the product. How fees, commissions, and other arrangements differ

Fees and minimums

Form ADV Part 2A

See the firm's brochure (dated July 16, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$191,177,888,563

$191,177,888,563 as of October 2026, filing dated July 16, 2026.

Discretionary: $158,960,890,259.Non-discretionary: $32,216,998,304.

A measure of scale, not skill or returns. Discretionary means the firm decides trades; non-discretionary means clients approve each one. What assets under management means

Who the firm serves

Item 5.D
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 314 Assets $190,568,740,986 (100%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 2 Assets $609,147,577 (0%)

A firm with no individual clients is an institutional manager even if it manages billions; the mix tells you whom the practice is built around.

Advisory services

Item 5.G
  • Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)
  • Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
1996 (29 years)
Employees
Total: 1,204. Performing investment advisory functions: 296.
Wrap fee program participation
No.
Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))

Custodians holding 10% or more of the firm's separately managed account assets, as filed on Form ADV (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)). A custodian holds client assets; it does not endorse or supervise the firm. AdvisorCensus has no relationship with any custodian.

Other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F)
1 other office, as of the August 2026 filing
Bogota
States registered or notice-filed
1 state or jurisdiction
MA

SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

None Reports no disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Item 11 asks about criminal, regulatory, and civil events involving the firm and its advisory personnel. The detail of each yes answer is on the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Assets and staff over time

Items 5.A, 5.F
$90.9B 2021 $128B 2022 $135B 2023 $151B 2024 $173B 2025 $191B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$191,177,888,5631,204July 16, 2026
October 2025$173,138,825,0491,157June 6, 2025
October 2024$151,348,655,1601,103April 29, 2024
October 2023$134,536,968,088990March 31, 2023
October 2022$127,607,973,571678September 16, 2022
October 2021$90,867,086,439739June 28, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $90,867,086,439 in the October 2021 data and $191,177,888,563 in the October 2026 data, up 110%.

Total employees: 739 in October 2021 and 1,204 in October 2026.

As filed in each year's data for the same month. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going; they measure scale, not skill or returns. Most firms update these figures once a year.

Changes in the filing

Last 12 months
  1. June 2026
    • Added an office in Bogota.
  2. April 2026
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 290 to 296.
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $173,138,825,049 to $190,853,374,106 (+10%).
  3. March 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

Compared month to month from the SEC's monthly adviser data and the state compilation feed. Owners and control persons are summarized, never named.

Websites listed on Form ADV

Item 1.I
harbourvest.com

Source: Form ADV, as of October 2026. Values appear as filed; a value the firm did not report is shown as "Not reported."

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AdvisorCensus. Harbourvest Partners, LLC (CRD 109846): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/harbourvest-partners-llc-boston-ma-109846