Polaris
VC Fund
Copenhagen, Denmark
Polaris is a Nordic private equity company investing in companies in the mid-market. Since its foundation in 1998, over one billion Euros have been raised in four different funds. Polaris has extensive experience within a broad range of deal-types and industries in the Nordic mid-market, from services to production, from local to global, fromphysical to intangible and from offline to online. Although all based in the Nordic region, their companies often have an international reach.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Polaris invests in
Stages Polaris invests in
Countries Polaris invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (25%)
- Health Care 2 (25%)
- CRM 1 (13%)
- RFID 1 (13%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 2 (25%)
- Private Equity 2 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (25%)
- Secondary Market 1 (13%)
- Post-IPO Secondary 1 (13%)
Country
- Sweden 5 (63%)
- Denmark 1 (13%)
- South Korea 1 (13%)
- United States 1 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Allan Bach Pedersen
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Henrik Bonnerup
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jan Dahlqvist
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jan Johan Kuhl
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Joachim Satchwell
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awardit provides different types of loyalty and reward programs based on digital reward currencies for B2B and B2C businesses. One-stop-shop from strategy to operation including points trading on Awardits platform (SaaS/Cloud). | Private Equity / Dec 07, 2023 | ||
| Study Senior provides educational assistance and O2O (online to offline) platform . | $9M / Series B / Jun 15, 2021 | ||
| A private dental care chain based in Stockholm, Sweden and Åland. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 01, 2020 | ||
| Configit based on ground-breaking academic research by Professor Henrik Reif Andersen and Ph.D. Henrik Hulgaard, the company’s current CEO and CTO, respectively, as well as students at the Danish IT University and Denmark’s Technical University. Configit’s products and solutions are based on the patented technology Virtual TabulationTM, whichenables handling of complex manufacturing models with billions of potential combinations. In 2014, Configit acquired 3DFacto, which is particularly strong within visualization, solution configuration and CAD and PLM integration. | $7.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 18, 2019 | ||
| Futur Pension is the life insurer in Sweden with over 11% premium market share. FuturPension has unique competitive advantages through unrivalled time-to-market and simultaneous cost and service leadership. | $287.1M / Private Equity / Dec 18, 2018 | ||
| Impinj is a provider of RAIN RFID solutions that deliver Item Intelligence to retail, pharmaceutical, healthcare, food and beverage, and many other industries. We enable the Internet of Things to identify, locate and authenticate billions of items, and our Item Intelligence platform comprises the most comprehensive and widely adopted RAIN RFIDproduct portfolio in the world. For more information about Impinj, visit www.impinj.com. | $14M / Series B / May 24, 2002 | ||
| Ambea Sweden is a leading elderly and disabled care services provider in Sweden. Ambea is active in the public-pay market for care services through Vardaga and Nytida which mainly provide services on behalf of local and regional authorities. Nytida is one of the leading providers of care for the disabled and Vardaga is one of the leading privateproviders of elderly care services in the Nordic region. Ambea also provides medical personnel staffing services through Rent-A-Doctor, Rent-A-Nurse and Careteam.Ambea Sweden has gone through major changes since Triton's investment in 2010. In 2011, the company faced significant media attention that resulted in internal turmoil and employee turnover. In order to stabilize the business and to create a more focused and stronger future platform, the underperforming Healthcare and Home Services businesses were divested. The company was also re‐branded during 2013, creating two distinct brands: Vardaga for elderly care and Nytida for disabled care. The corporate brand name remains Ambea. | $56.7M / Post-IPO Secondary | ||
| PDS Vision Group is a global provider of solutions and services focused on helping companies successfully enable their Digital Transformation Journey specialised in 3D Design (CAD), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Data Management (PDM), Simulation Modeling (CAE), Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality (AR) and AftermarketSolutions. | Secondary Market |
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What does Polaris invest in?
Polaris invests primarily in Software, Health Care and CRM startups, most often at Series B and Private Equity stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Polaris?
The team at Polaris includes Allan Bach Pedersen (Partner), Henrik Bonnerup (Partner) and Jan Dahlqvist (Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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