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After a few years, parts of that company were purchased by Microsoft, where Steve joined as the vice president of Broadband Media Applications. There, he and his team focused on building applications for emerging broadband networks. He left Microsoft in 1995 and co-founded Polaris Partners with Jon Flint and Terry McGuire in 1996. [1] [2]
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 ...
Amy Weinfeld Schulman is an American healthcare biotech venture capitalist, trained as a lawyer, who serves as a managing partner at Polaris Partners. [1] [2] [3] She focuses on investing in healthcare companies and early-stage biotech start-ups.
Along with Terry McGuire and Steve Arnold, Flint left BEDCO in 1996 and founded the venture capital firm Polaris Partners. [4] Polaris is now [when?] investing out of its ninth venture fund and has also raised a life sciences Innovation Fund and two Growth Funds.
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Prior to starting Polaris, McGuire spent seven years as a partner at the venture capital firm Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. investing in early-stage medical and information technology companies. McGuire was also a partner at Beta Partners from 1988 to 1997. His venture capital career began at Golder, Thoma & Cressey in Chicago.
Brendan Hannigan is cofounder and CEO of Sonrai Security and entrepreneur partner at Polaris Partners. [1] He is a former head of International Business Machines (IBM) Security Systems Division, chairman of Twistlock [2] and CEO of Q1 Labs. [3]
Sinai was a venture capitalist at Polaris Partners and Lehman Brothers Venture Partners (now Tenaya Capital). [82] At Polaris, he invested in LogMeIn, a company that went public in 2009. [ 83 ] He also served in executive and advisory roles with two Boston area start-up technology companies, and served as a senior advisor to the Massachusetts ...