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Polaris Ventures Partners

Company Information

1000 Winter Street
Suite 3350
Waltham, MA
USA
Phone: (781) 290-0770
Fax: (781) 290-0880

www.polarisventures.com

Industry: Finance


Overview

A national venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management, Polaris invests in seed, early stage and growth equity businesses in the technology, life science, digital media, enertech and consumer sectors. Through a philosophy of lead investing and active, long-term partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams, Polaris has helped many companies achieve outstanding success. Among them are: Accordant Health Services, Acusphere, Advanced Inhalation Research (AIR), Akamai Technologies, Allaire Corporation, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, American Superconductor, Archivas, Aspect Medical Systems, Avici Systems, Centra Software, Classifieds2000, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Cushcraft Corporation, deCODE genetics, Exchange.com, GlycoFi, Matrics, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Paradigm Genetics, Powersoft, Solidworks, and TransForm Pharmaceuticals.

Corporate Structure

TOP EXECUTIVES

Robert M. Metcalfe      partner
Peter Flint      General Partner
Alan L. Crane      Venture Partner
Kevin Littlejohn      Chief Financial Officer
Bryce Youngren      General Partner
Steve Arnold      Managing General Partner
John Gannon      General Partner
Dave Barrett      general partner
Alan G. Spoon      Managing General Partner
Mary Blair      Controller
Simeon Simeonov      Partner
Brian E. Chee      General Partner
Paul Yett      Advisor
Nick Sinai      Associate
William Bilodeau      Director of Portfolio Financing
Ryan Woodley      Associate
Joseph Noonan      Associate
Brandon Molina      Associate
Shaival Shah      Associate
Jason Trevisan      Principal
Bob Geiman      General Partner
James Tomczyk      Associate
Amir Nashat      principal
Terry McGuire      Managing General Partner
Michael Madden      Associate
Kevin Bitterman      Associate
Jon Flint      Co-Founder and Managing General Partner
Gregory V Stento      Board Advisor
Mike Hirshland      General Partner
George H. Conrades      Venture Partner
Adrienne Sweetser      Manager of Portfolio Recruiting