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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / LS Polaris Innovation Fund Management, L.L.C.
LS Polaris Innovation Fund Management, L.L.C.
Institutional venture firm · probableBoston, MApolarispartners.comSEC exempt reporting adviserpart of Polaris Partners
One of 3 advisers that share polarispartners.com; the firm is Polaris Partners. Polaris Partners, Polaris Growth Management, LLC. Each keeps its own CRD, funds and filings; the grouping is the website each swore to on Form ADV and is recomputed every pass.
venture manager with no reported fund assets yet (scale unknown)
Importance
15
moderate
Active deployment
4
low
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
56
elevated
Freshness
97
high
Research priority
5
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Boston, MAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- ONE MARINA PARK DRIVE, 10TH FLOOR, Boston, MA, 02210adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 781-290-0770adviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Apr 2, 2019
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $100Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 781-290-0770adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
3 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- healthcare, biotech, consumer, industrial
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- boston, global, new york, singapore
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 33%Biotechnology 33%Other Technology 33%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 1
Funds and vehicles
0 reported
No vehicle on record yet. A fund arrives from Form ADV Schedule D 7.B.(1) or a Form D filing.
Investment team
3 current, 0 departed
AMY Schulman
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Jun 1, 2017
Eileen Mcguire
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Jun 1, 2017
Harold Scot Friedman
Platform and operationsChief Financial Officer · since Oct 1, 2017
Investments on record
3 edges, 3 companies, 2 partner-attributed
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| polaris growth fund | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 12, 2026 | Fact Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Noetik Inc. | board seat | unknown · board | AMY Schulman (strongly supported) | unknown | unknown | Aug 13, 2024 | Inference SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) |
| Sequelae, Inc. | board seat | unknown · board | AMY Schulman (strongly supported) | unknown | unknown | Apr 12, 2024 | Inference SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) |
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
3 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
2 dated events
- Dec 12, 2017LS Polaris Innovation Fund Management, L.L.C. first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Dec 12, 2017LS Polaris Innovation Fund, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by LS Polaris Innovation Fund Management, L.L.C. (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $101,010,101Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactLS Polaris Innovation Fund, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (probable, 70%, cls-1)venture manager with no reported fund assets yet (scale unknown)
Evidence
20 observations from 2 sources