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Polaris Private Equity

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Total investments 11
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$31M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 0.44
Lead investments 6
Exits 6
Key employees 9

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Software
  • Renewable Energy
  • Infrastructure
  • RFID
Summary

Polaris Private Equity appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Copenhagen. The venture was found in Europe in Denmark.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Polaris Private Equity, startups are often financed by Madrona Venture Group, ARCH Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Preben Damgaard, Michael Moesgaard Andersen, Madrona Venture Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, Polaris Partners, Mobius Venture Capital.

Besides them, we counted 9 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Wind Energy, Manufacturing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Configit, Impinj. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Denmark.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this Polaris Private Equity performs on 54 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Study Senior

EdTech
Education
$8M15 Jun 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Impinj

Internet of Things
RFID
Software
$14M24 May 2002 Seattle, Washington, United States

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Total investments 11
Average round size 31M
Rounds per year 0.44
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 6
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.27

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Study Senior

EdTech
Education
$8M15 Jun 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Impinj

Internet of Things
RFID
Software
$14M24 May 2002 Seattle, Washington, United States
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