10 posts and columns on Polaris Venture Partners

Remedy Health Media Acquires HealthCentral

in News on November 29, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Remedy Health, a New York-based health information company, has bought HealthCentral, a start-up that offers online clinical and patient tools, community and content in a variety of topic areas.
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Cardlytics Raises $33 Million to Support Daily Deals Alternative

in Commerce on September 8, 2011 at 12:47 pm PT

Cardlytics, which is developing a platform that enables banks and others to offer Groupon-like discounts to consumers, has raised a $33 million fourth round of capital. Investors in the round include Groupe Aeroplan, with which it is also forming an alliance, along with Canaan Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, TTV Capital, ITC Holdings and Kinetic Ventures. The Atlanta-based company will use the capital for U.S. and international growth.

Kim Kardashian's ShoeDazzle Walks Away With $40 Million from Andreessen Horowitz

in Commerce on May 13, 2011 at 3:45 pm PT

ShoeDazzle, a two-year old company building a subscription-based e-commerce business, has raised $40 million in capital from investors, including Andreessen Horowitz.

Storage Start-Up Egnyte Lands $10 Million, Launches Hybrid Cloud for iPad

in Enterprise on March 2, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain was a little skeptical about the iPad at first. Then his customers started demanding access to his enterprise storage service from their iPads in huge numbers. Now Kleiner Perkins’ iFund is investing.

Novelty? Sure. Business? Could Be! Stickybits Raises Another $1.6 Million.

in Media on May 19, 2010 at 6:05 am PT

Stickybits is the kind of thing that might make more sense if you’re not entirely sober: It’s a funky, practical-joke-from-the-future concept that involves stickers, scannable bar codes and geo-tagging. It might also be a business.

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The $100 Million Revenue Club: Art.Com

in News on February 17, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Art.com Inc. would appear to be doing well. After all, the Emeryville, Calif., online seller of art and decor items has generated more than $100 million in annual revenue for the past four years, including $140 million in 2009.

The Start Project Gets Start-Up Stars as Advisers, Including Stone, Sacca, Mullenweg

in News on February 1, 2010 at 1:57 pm PT

A new Silicon Valley business incubator called The Start Project has recruited a high-profile group of entrepreneurs as advisers, which it announced today on its Web site. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, former Google exec and angel investor Chris Sacca, as well as Mike Tatum and David Liu, have all agreed to help the company’s start-ups before and during their creation.

Meet Drake Meeting Brizzly: A Spanking New ATD Feature

in News on November 6, 2009 at 12:03 am PT

Today, All Things Digital debuts a new feature called “Almost Famous” in our Voices section. No, it is not about Kate Hudson and nascent rock stars. Well, you might meet geek rock stars to be. Focused on innovative, interesting or just plain odd start-ups, we thought it was a good way for our readers to get a gander at some up-and-coming ideas and trends. It will be penned by Drake Martinet every Friday.
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The Flip (Camera) Is Flipped!

in News on October 4, 2007 at 12:05 am PT

Mike Hirshland of Boston-based Polaris Venture Partners recently turned his Flip video camera on me in a desperate attempt to become a video artist like, well, me. He fails miserably, of course, to reach my levels of jittery and nausea-inducing shooting, by sticking the camera in my face and asking me what I think of [...]

A Talk With VCMike

in News on July 23, 2007 at 8:20 am PT

Mike Hirshland of Boston-based Polaris Venture Partners was in San Francisco recently, and so I had a little chat with him, part of my ongoing series: Meet the VCs, so you can fight or flee when you see them at parties. I met Hirshland when he was working in Congress on tech issues such as [...]