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Polaris Partners
Company typePrivate ownership
IndustryVenture Capital
Founded1996
HeadquartersBoston, Massachusetts, United States
ProductsInvestments
AUM$5.0 billion[1]
Number of employees
35+[2]
Websitepolarispartners.com

Polaris Partners is a venture capital firm active in the field of healthcare and biotechnology companies. The company has offices in Boston, Massachusetts, New York, NY and San Francisco, California.[3][4]

History

Polaris Partners was founded in 1996 by Jon Flint, Terry McGuire, Steve Arnold.[5][6][7]

The firm has over $5 billion in committed capital and is now making investments through its tenth fund.[1] The current managing partners are Brian Chee, Amy Schulman, and Darren Carroll.[1]

Polaris Partners also has two affiliate funds. Polaris Growth Fund targets investments in profitable, founder-owned technology companies and is led by managing partners Bryce Youngren and Dan Lombard.[8][9] Polaris Innovation Fund focuses on the commercial and therapeutic potential of early-stage academic research and is led by managing partners Amy Schulman and Ellie McGuire.[10][11][12][13]

History of private equity
and venture capital
Early history
(origins of modern private equity)
The 1980s
(leveraged buyout boom)
The 1990s
(leveraged buyout and the venture capital bubble)
The 2000s
(dot-com bubble to the credit crunch)
The 2010s
(expansion)
The 2020s
(COVID-19 recession)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Brian Chee". California Health Care Foundation. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  2. ^ Polaris Venture Website: Who We Are Archived 2008-12-18 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Polaris Partners Portfolio".
  4. ^ DeAngelis, Allison. "Polaris Partners plans new $400M fund for life sciences, tech".
  5. ^ "Investors hope to collect big return from Exchange.com". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  6. ^ "Terrance G. McGuire". Dartmouth Engineering. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  7. ^ "Stephen D. Arnold". Edutopia. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  8. ^ FinSMEs (2022-07-31). "Amplifire Receives Strategic Investment from Polaris Growth Fund". FinSMEs. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  9. ^ "Bryce Youngren". Polaris Growth. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  10. ^ "Breaking into Biotech with Amy Schulman, Polaris Partners". HARVARD ALUMNI ENTREPRENEURS. 9 July 2020. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  11. ^ "Amy Schulman '89 - Yale Law School". law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  12. ^ "Experts in Residence (XIRs)". Harvard Office of Technology Development. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  13. ^ Solutions, Inc, Dude. "Women, Money & Tech". calendar.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-08.

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