Polaris Partners

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Polaris Partners

Company type	Private
Industry	Venture Capital
Founded	1996; 29 years ago (1996)
Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Products	Investments
AUM	$5.0 billion[1]
Number of employees	35+[2]
Website	www.polarispartners.com

Polaris Partners is a venture capital firm active in the field of healthcare and biotechnology companies. The company has offices in Boston, Massachusetts, New York, New York and San Francisco, California.^[3][4]

Polaris Partners was founded in 1996 by Jon Flint, Terry McGuire, Steve Arnold.^[5][6][7]

The firm has over $5 billion in committed capital and is now making investments through its tenth fund.^[1] The current managing partners are Amy Schulman, and Brian Chee.^[1][8]

Polaris Partners also has two affiliate funds. Polaris Growth Fund targets investments in profitable, founder-owned technology companies and is led by managing partners Bryce Youngren and Dan Lombard.^[9][10] Polaris Innovation Fund focuses on the commercial and therapeutic potential of early-stage academic research and is led by managing partners Amy Schulman and Ellie McGuire.^{[11][12][13][14]}

History of private equity and venture capital
Early history
(origins of modern private equity)
The 1980s
(leveraged buyout boom)
The 1990s
(leveraged buyout and the venture capital bubble)
The 2000s
(dot-com bubble to the credit crunch)
The 2010s
(expansion)
The 2020s
(COVID-19 recession)
v t e

• Polaris Growth Fund
• Polaris Innovation Fund

• A Generation Gap in Venture Capital
• Gupta, Udayan. Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories, 2000
• Venture-Capital Firms Prepare for Next Generation of Partners
• "The Thrill of Defeat". The Boston Globe, February 2001
• Cocktails & Conversation with Bill Egan, Alta Communications. Wharton School of Business, 2006.

• Polaris Partners