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Polaris Partners

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• Why We Led the Investment in InsideSales.com

  By Dave Barrett on April 29, 2014

  

  Yesterday our investment in InsideSales.com was made public. SaaS is the prevailing theme in Polaris’ technology portfolio, and the world that I personally work in on a daily basis. The Consumerization of IT — and with it, re-innovation of the sales and marketing… Read More ›

• Capturing Data Gold: Polaris Leads $10 million Round in Logentries; Names SaaS Vet Andrew Burton CEO

  By Dave Barrett on October 1, 2013

  

  Big news in big data today!  This morning we announced our Series A investment in Logentries, a new cloud-based service provider for collecting and analyzing huge quantities of machine-generated log data. Here at Polaris, we fund companies that are poised… Read More ›

• Top Venture Industry Communicator to Join Polaris

  By Dave Barrett on September 9, 2013

  We’re thrilled to announce that Emily Mendell — who has led the communications strategy for the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) for more than a decade — will join Polaris Partners at the end of September as Vice President of… Read More ›