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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.
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]
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.
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.
Formed in 1991 as an independent organization, the Innovative Users Group serves the libraries that use the company's software. The Innovative Users Group organizes an annual conference, organizes ballots for user-submitted enhancements, and maintains the IUG Clearinghouse for users to share tutorials, scripts, guides, and other resources created to better use the software.
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.
Polaris Sno Traveler (1965) Polaris RZR ATV used by firefighters in the Kaibab National Forest. Edgar Hetteen (later described by the Snowmobile Hall of Fame in St. Germain, Wisconsin as the father of the snowmobile), David Johnson, and Edgar's brother Allan Hetteen were partners in Hetteen Hoist and Derrick [6] in Roseau, Minnesota. Edgar had ...
Employee resource groups have the potential to bring about broad change. They serve as an organized and established platform that employees can utilize to promote change. [20] These changes occur in the form of policy changes, cultural changes, and improved relationships between the employees and employers. [21]