Atlas Venture
Atlas是一家國際領先的專注于早期投資的風險投資公司,在美國、歐洲和亞洲的高科技和生命科學領域有著廣泛的投資。自從1980年組建以來,其合伙人在超過15個不同國家幫助打造了300多家公司。自1990年,Atlas投資的公司中有44被收購,40家已經上市,總市值超過120億美元。Atlas公司已募完8支基金,通過波士頓、倫敦、慕尼黑和巴黎等地的辦事處管理超過25億美元的資本。Atlas公司的生命科學團隊已經對將近100家生物技術、醫藥和醫療器材公司進行了早期投資。Atlas目前投資的公司中,大約有35家是生命科學領域的公司,每年它還會進行幾項新投資,這些投資項目從種子階段到首次公開募股之前的階段各不相同。
Atlas Venture is an international early-stage firm that invests in, and companies. From the late 1990s through the mid-2000s the firm was leading investor in in both the and . Atlas is headquartered in .
Since its inception in 1980, Atlas has invested in over 350 companies in more than 16 different countries. Among the firm's most notable exits are , Trading Dynamics, , Novexel, OnDisplay, Omnia, Phase Forward, Adnexus, Element 14, Momenta, , , Castle Networks, and . A sample of current investments include Dataxu, Globoforce, , Jenavalve, , Nimbus Discovery, , Zafgen and .
The firm has raised over $2.8 billion of investor commitments across its eight venture capital funds. After growing steadily in the 1990s, the firm raised $705 million for its 2000-vintage fifth fund. Following the collapse of the , the firm found it difficult to raise similar pools of capital raising $600 million and $385 million for its sixth and seventh funds in 2001 and 2006 respectively. The firm is currently investing from its eighth fund which closed in early 2009 with $283 million of capital. This was significantly less than Atlas had indicated it would target for its fundraising.
As a result of the firm's smaller fund sizes, Atlas has significantly consolidated its investment operations. At its peak, the firm had offices on the West Coast as well as in Europe. Today, the firm operates from a single office in .