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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Venture Capital |
Founded | 1996 |
Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Products | Investments |
AUM | $5.0 billion [1] |
Number of employees | 35+ [2] |
Website | www |
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, New York and San Francisco, California. [3] [4]
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 Amy Schulman, and Brian Chee. [1] [8]
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. [9] [10] 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. [11] [12] [13] [14]
History of private equity and venture capital |
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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) |