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.
History
Polaris Partners was founded in 1996 by Jon Flint, Terry McGuire, Steve Arnold.345
The firm has over $5 billion in committed capital and is now making investments through its tenth fund.6 The current managing partners are Amy Schulman, and Brian Chee.78
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.910 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.11121314
See also
- A Generation Gap in Venture Capital
- Gupta, Udayan. Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories, 2000
- Venture-Capital Firms Prepare for Next Generation of Partners
- "The Thrill of Defeat". The Boston Globe, February 2001
- Cocktails & Conversation with Bill Egan, Alta Communications. Wharton School of Business, 2006.
External links
References
"Polaris Partners Portfolio". http://www.polarispartners.com/portfolio/ ↩
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"Terrance G. McGuire". Dartmouth Engineering. Retrieved 2022-09-08. https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/community/leadership/board/members/terrance-mcguire ↩
"Stephen D. Arnold". Edutopia. Retrieved 2022-09-08. https://www.edutopia.org/profile/stephen-d-arnold ↩
"Brian Chee". California Health Care Foundation. Retrieved 2022-09-08. https://www.chcf.org/person/brian-chee/ ↩
"Brian Chee". California Health Care Foundation. Retrieved 2022-09-08. https://www.chcf.org/person/brian-chee/ ↩
"Polaris Team | Polaris Partners". Retrieved 2024-06-07. https://polarispartners.com/polaris-team/ ↩
FinSMEs (2022-07-31). "Amplifire Receives Strategic Investment from Polaris Growth Fund". FinSMEs. Retrieved 2022-09-08. https://www.finsmes.com/2022/07/amplifire-receives-strategic-investment-from-polaris-growth-fund.html ↩
"Bryce Youngren". Polaris Growth. Retrieved 2022-09-08. https://polarisgrowthfund.com/partner/bryce-youngren/ ↩
"Breaking into Biotech with Amy Schulman, Polaris Partners". HARVARD ALUMNI ENTREPRENEURS. 9 July 2020. Retrieved 2022-09-08. https://www.harvardae.org/new-events/2020/6/23/hae-investor-series-amy-schulman-polaris-partners ↩
"Amy Schulman '89 - Yale Law School". law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-08. https://law.yale.edu/studying-law-yale/alumni-student-profiles/amy-schulman-89 ↩
"Experts in Residence (XIRs)". Harvard Office of Technology Development. Retrieved 2022-09-08. https://otd.harvard.edu/faculty-inventors/resources/experts-in-residence/ ↩
Solutions, Inc, Dude. "Women, Money & Tech". calendar.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-08. https://calendar.buffalo.edu/event/women-money--tech/ ↩