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Company type | Private ownership |
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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 | polarispartners.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]
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 |
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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) |