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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) |