Polaris Venture Partners Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
The philosophy of Polaris Venture Partners can be summed up simply: diversity is good. That's why about a third of the investments Polaris has made from the $80 million fund raised at its founding in 1996 is in the life sciences; two-thirds are in information technology.
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