Polaris Venture Capital

Total investments

19

Average round size

21M

Portfolio companies

17

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.11

Exits

11

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyDrug DiscoveryInternetHealth CarePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsConsumer ElectronicsInternet of ThingsWirelessAudio

Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Tel Aviv. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Israel.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Polaris Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Polaris Partners, Venture Capital Fund of New England, Sorin Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venture Capital Fund of New England, ZOLL Medical Corporation, Versant Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Polaris Partners, Venture Capital Fund of New England, Resolute Ventures.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Content, Consumer. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BarkBox, Respicardia, NakedPoppy.

This Polaris Venture Capital works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
2
Exits
11
Follow on index
0.11
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (8)
  • Health Care (8)
  • Internet (3)
  • Therapeutics (3)
  • Pharmaceutical (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
  • Germany (1)
  • Israel (2)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
56M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.18
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Allurent 27 Mar 2006 E-Commerce, Internet, Software, Retail, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Internet of Things Early Stage Venture 0 United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ingenium Pharmaceuticals AG 01 Oct 2000 Biotechnology Early Stage Venture 59M Germany, Bavaria, Germany
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