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...
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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 our
internal team is our extensive network of academic and industrial
advisors who are actively engaged in evaluating and helping develop our
new ventures. Extending over a period of 20 years, our entrepreneurship
and investment experience comes from founding over 30 successful new
ventures while funding and building over 100 more.
To maximize the returns to our investors, we combine our
experience, our passion for innovation, our focus on value creation and
our commitment to the success of each company's leadership team.
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