Atlas Venture
Atlas是一家国际领先的专注于早期投资的风险投资公司,在美国、欧洲和亚洲的高科技和生命科学领域有着广泛的投资。自从1980年组建以来,其合伙人在超过15个不同国家帮助打造了300多家公司。自1990年,Atlas投资的公司中有44被收购,40家已经上市,总市值超过120亿美元。Atlas公司已募完8支基金,通过波士顿、伦敦、慕尼黑和巴黎等地的办事处管理超过25亿美元的资本。Atlas公司的生命科学团队已经对将近100家生物技术、医药和医疗器材公司进行了早期投资。Atlas目前投资的公司中,大约有35家是生命科学领域的公司,每年它还会进行几项新投资,这些投资项目从种子阶段到首次公开募股之前的阶段各不相同。
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 .