Polaris Venture Partners, Inc. is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments in middle market companies. The firm also participates in recapitalization, liquidity, leveraged buyout, and growth equity investments. It prefers to make early stage investments in companies engaged in the information technology and life sciences sectors. Investments in the middle market comprise of companies engaged in technology, healthcare, digital media, ecommerce, consumer products and services, and business service sectors. The firm prefers to invest in portfolio companies based in the United States and selectively in Asia and Europe. The firm typically invests between $50,000 and $60 million I portfolio companies with a maximum EBITDA of $25 million. The firm generally acts as a lead or co-lead investor. Polaris Venture Partners was founded in 1996 by Mr. Jon Flint, Mr. Terry McGuire, and Mr. Steve Arnold and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts with an additional office in Seattle, Washington.