Polaris Partners

Polaris Partners is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in San Francisco. Founded in 1996, it targets investments in technology and life science companies across the United States and Europe, supporting startups from early formation to profitable growth. The firm's healthcare and biotechnology focus encompasses digital health, consumer-centric care delivery, patient-provider solutions, data science and analytics, as well as therapeutics, genomics and other life science platforms. It backs companies across business-to-business and business-to-consumer models, software as a service, healthcare information technology and health tech sectors, partnering with repeat entrepreneurs to build durable, scale-ready businesses.

David Barrett

Managing Partner

Marissa Bertorelli

Principal

Alexandra Cantley Ph.D

Partner

Darren Carroll

Partner

Brian Chee

Managing Partner

Past deals in Macau

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2009
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on gastroenterology therapies. Its lead product is linaclotide, marketed as LINZESS in the United States and CONSTELLA elsewhere, for adults with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation and chronic idiopathic constipation. The company is advancing other GI candidates, including MD-7246, an oral non-opioid pain reliever for abdominal GI pain, and IW 3718, a gastric-retentive bile acid sequestrant in Phase III for GERD. Ironwood pursues collaborations to expand linaclotide’s reach in North America, China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan, with agreements involving Allergan and AstraZeneca and a license with Astellas for Japan. It operates an independent subsidiary, Microbia, that develops bioprocesses for pharmaceuticals and related industries. Founded in 1998, Ironwood is headquartered in Massachusetts.
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