Business Focus:
Polaris Venture Partners is a partnership of experienced private equity investors, operating executives and entrepreneurs. Our mission is to identify, invest in and partner with seed, early stage, and middle market businesses with exceptional promise and help them grow into market-leading companies. As a national private equity firm with offices in Boston and Seattle, we invest in businesses throughout the United States and selectively in Europe and Asia. Polaris has over $3 billion under management, more than 20 investment professionals, and current investments in more than 90 companies.

Investment Strategy:
Diversification is the cornerstone of Polaris' investment strategy. We invest in early stage and high growth middle market businesses. Early stage efforts focus on information technology and life sciences companies. Middle market investments focus on businesses in technology, healthcare, digital media, ecommerce, consumer products and services, and business service sectors. As the lead or co-lead investor in virtually all of our portfolio companies, we take an active, long-term role in helping them develop into successful, market-leading companies.

Target Markets:
Early Stage: Our early stage efforts are focused on information technology and life sciences. Within the information technology sector, Polaris has invested in companies developing Internet and broadband infrastructure, enterprise software products, e-commerce products and services, digital media, entertainment and consumer software, network hardware, and network software. In the life sciences sector, the firm has invested in companies developing medical devices, pharmaceuticals, genomics, proteomics, drug delivery, medical services, and consumer products and services.

Middle Market: Our private equity efforts are focused on high growth middle market companies in industries including technology, healthcare, digital media, consumer products and services, and business services. The firm's investments include minority growth equity investments, recapitalizations with liquidity, and leveraged buyouts.

Portfolio Clients:
Polaris has more than 90 companies in its current portfolio. Among the successful companies Polaris has backed are:

Leadership:
Polaris is led by four managing general partners: Steve Arnold, Jonathan Flint, Terry McGuire, and Alan Spoon. There are also two venture partners, seven general partners, two principals, one technology partner, one recruiting partner, a chief financial officer, and several associates on the Polaris team.

Founded: 1996

Headquarters:
1000 Winter Street, Suite 3350
Waltham, MA 02451
Telephone: 781-290-0770
Fax: 781-290-0880

Seattle Office:
1000 2nd Avenue, Suite 3100
Seattle, WA 98104
Telephone: 206-652-4555
Fax: 206-652-4666