Polaris Partners

Summary

Polaris Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1996. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Boston. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund was created by Jon Flint, Steve Arnold, Terrance McGuire. We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

The typical startup value when the investment from Polaris Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Polaris Partners performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2008.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Receptos, LegalZoom, Insidesales.com. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Polaris Partners, startups are often financed by Three Arch Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Frontline Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Three Arch Partners, SR One, Canaan Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sofinnova Investments, Omega Funds, Lilly Ventures.