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Polaris Venture Capital

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 17
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 11
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Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Internet
  • Therapeutics
  • Pharmaceutical
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seraxis

Biotechnology
Health Care
$40M09 Feb 2021 Germantown, Maryland, United States

NakedPoppy

Beauty
Cosmetics
Health Care
Women's
$4M27 Mar 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Lyra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
Wellness
$29M26 Sep 2018 Massachusetts, United States

Avitide

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$1M04 Mar 2013 Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$30M27 Jul 2009 Massachusetts, United States

Selecta Biosciences

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Pharmaceutical
$2M01 May 2008 Massachusetts, United States

Allurent

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Internet
Internet of Things
Retail
SaaS
Software
27 Mar 2006 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Imprivata

Health Care
Information Services
Security
$12M06 Feb 2006 -

ClearView Audio

Audio
Consumer Electronics
Wireless
$7M06 Jun 2005 Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 19
Average round size 21M
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Seraxis

Biotechnology
Health Care
$40M09 Feb 2021 Germantown, Maryland, United States

NakedPoppy

Beauty
Cosmetics
Health Care
Women's
$4M27 Mar 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Lyra Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
Wellness
$29M26 Sep 2018 Massachusetts, United States

Avitide

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
$1M04 Mar 2013 Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$30M27 Jul 2009 Massachusetts, United States

Selecta Biosciences

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Pharmaceutical
$2M01 May 2008 Massachusetts, United States

Allurent

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Internet
Internet of Things
Retail
SaaS
Software
27 Mar 2006 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Imprivata

Health Care
Information Services
Security
$12M06 Feb 2006 -

ClearView Audio

Audio
Consumer Electronics
Wireless
$7M06 Jun 2005 Massachusetts, United States
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