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Polaris Partners
Private Equity, Venture Capital · Founded 1996 · Boston, United States
Polaris Partners’ biggest current holdings.
Polaris Partners is a named shareholder in 3 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $597M in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 3 biggest are listed below.
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1
Automattic
6.5%
$7.5B
$488M
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2
FloQast
4%
$1.6B
$64M
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3
Freenome
3%
$1.5B
$45M
Estimated value = Polaris Partners’ disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →
Polaris Partners’ biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Polaris Partners’ transaction record.
Where Polaris Partners’ portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 354 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA332
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Ireland8
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UK5
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Singapore4
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Netherlands3
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Belgium2
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Israel2
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Canada1
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Denmark1
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France1
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Lithuania1
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Rwanda1
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Health185
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Enterprise Software48
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Marketing29
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Media24
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Security17
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Fintech16
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Food11
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Telecom11
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Energy10
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Wellness Beauty9
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Transportation8
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Legal6
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Series A159
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Series B+127
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Seed52
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Breakout Stage152
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Late Growth123
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Early Growth81
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Mature7
Inside Polaris Partners’ portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 354 tracked.
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CyWhere Polaris Partners’ portfolio founders come from.
144 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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United States114
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Netherlands8
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United Kingdom4
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Australia1
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China1
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Germany1
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Peru1
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Singapore1
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Sweden1
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Switzerland1
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Harvard University14
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Harvard Medical School8
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology8
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University of California, Berkeley6
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Yale University5
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Cornell University4
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Harvard Business School4
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Stanford University4
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Caltech, California Institute of Technology3
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Leiden University3
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Biogen4
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Harvard Medical School4
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McKinsey & Company4
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Novartis4
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Harvard University3
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Janssen Vaccines3
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Massachusetts General Hospital3
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
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Alphabet | Google2
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Arsomedi2
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at Polaris Partners.
