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Flagship Ventures

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Flagship Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on creating, financing, and building innovative companies in the Life Science and Technology sectors. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Flagship Ventures was founded in 1999 and manages $700 million in capital. Prior to its founding, Flagship’s principals were involved as founders or investors in over 100 firms including: Adolor, AltaVista, Anesta, Antigenics, Aspect Medical, Astral Point, Celera Genomics, ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals, Color Kinetics, Chantry Networks, Cytyc, DataSage, Exact Sciences, IDEXX, PerSeptive Biosystems, Somatogen, Telecorp PCS and TripAdvisor.

The Flagship investment team consists of 10 professionals and is led by co-founders Noubar Afeyan and Ed Kania. Complementing their internal team which has extensive network of academic and industrial advisors who are actively engaged in evaluating and helping develop new ventures.

Milestones

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  Flagship Ventures invested in Bind Biosciences. (1/11/10)
  Posted 1/12/10 at 5:53am
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Receptos. (11/23/09)
  Posted 11/23/09 at 6:59pm
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  Flagship Ventures invested in LS9. (10/29/09)
  Posted 9/25/09 at 12:06am
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Alvine Pharmaceuticals. (9/15/09)
  Posted 9/21/09 at 7:11am
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Pervasis Therapeutics. (8/31/09)
  Posted 9/24/09 at 3:17pm
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Accuri Cytometers. (8/10/09)
  Posted 8/11/09 at 1:03pm
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Advanced Electron Beams. (8/4/09)
  Posted 8/4/09 at 11:04am
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Novomer. (8/09)
  Posted 8/17/09 at 9:09am
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Kovio. (7/13/09)
  Posted 7/14/09 at 12:19pm
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  Flagship Ventures invested in TARIS Biomedical. (6/25/09)
  Posted 6/26/09 at 9:06pm
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Polatis. (6/2/09)
  Posted 6/17/09 at 2:01pm
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Carbon Design Systems. (5/26/09)
  Posted 1/13/10 at 2:40pm
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Parasol Therapeutics. (5/10/09)
  Posted 6/23/09 at 12:36pm
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Seahorse Bioscience. (3/9/09)
  Posted 6/20/09 at 12:18am
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Selecta Biosciences. (2/25/09)
  Posted 4/14/09 at 10:01am
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  Flagship Ventures invested in Black Duck Software. (2/9/09)
  Posted 2/9/09 at 12:28pm

Investments

Videos

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1. Bind Biosciences raises $11M, appoints CEO (masshightech.com) [edit]
2. Receptos raises $25M in Series A (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
3. LS9, Inc.: Series C $25M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
4. Alvine gobbles $21.5M to treat gastrointestinal disease (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
5. Pervasis Therapeutics Announces $17 Million in Financing and New Board Member (news.prnewswire.com) [edit]
6. Accuri Cytometers, Inc.: Series D $4M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
7. http://earth2tech.com/2009/08/04/ge-beams-more-cash-into-advanced-electron-tech/ (earth2tech.com) [edit]
8. Green Plastics Startup Novomer Raises $14M (earth2tech.com) [edit]
9. Kovio raises $20 million for chip-printing technology for tiniest radios and sensors (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
10. Taris Biomedical raises $15 million (boston.bizjournals.com) [edit]
11. Polatis Raises $8M (polatis.com) [edit]
12. xconomy.com [edit]
13. Parasol Therapeutics, Inc.: Series A $3.25M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
14. Seahorse Bioscience lands $6M, buys BioProcessors Corp (masshightech.com) [edit]
15. Selecta Biosciences, Inc. Closes $15.1M Series B Financing (selectabio.com) [edit]
16. Black Duck Software Gets $9.5 Million To Help You Ship Better Software More Quickly (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Equity Help Desk (equityhelpdesk.com) [edit]
18. Mascoma Corporation Raises $61 Million in Third Round of Funding (findarticles.com) [edit]
19. Capital Funding Report [edit]
20. Pervasis Therapeutics Closes Additional $9.75 Million in Financing (pervasistx.com) [edit]
21. xconomy.com [edit]
22. Novomer, Next-Generation Eco-Plastics Company, Secures Series A Financing from Physic Ventures and Flagship Ventures (novomer.com) [edit]
23. Kovio raises $19.4M for printed electronics (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
24. TransMedics (transmedics.com) [edit]
25. Black Duck Software Closes $12 Million in Third Round Financing (blackducksoftware.com) [edit]
26. Mascoma gets $30M for cellulosic ethanol — in bid to replace gasoline (venturebeat.com) [edit]
27. Black Duck Software Secures $12M in Series B Financing Led By Ventures (intel.com) [edit]
28. Black Duck swimming in $5M round (boston.bizjournals.com) [edit]
29. boston.bizjournals.com [edit]
30. TransMedics (transmedics.com) [edit]