Russell M. Parker

Polaris Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1996 by Stephen D. Arnold, Jonathan A. Flint and Terrance G. McGuire. Polaris Partners is headquartered in Waltham.

VKernel Corp. provides virtualization management and performance products. The company was founded by Alex Bakman on May 7, 2007 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Qualaroo, Inc. develops survey tool for businesses to collect feedback directly from customers. It offers survey platform for mobile, and sentiment analysis. The company was founded by Sean Ellis, Eugene Mandel, Alex Sherstinsky, Hiten Shah, and Jason Meresman in 2010 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Recurly, Inc. provides enterprise-class recurring billing management platform. It offers billing models, revenue recognition, gift subscriptions, fraud management, mobile solutions, data portability, documentation, and professional services. The company was founded by Betty Kayton, Isaac Hall, Tim Van Loan, James Michels, and Daniel Burkhart in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Bitium, Inc. develops and manages web applications. The firm's products include federation and single sign on, credential, aap management, directory integration, secure access and reporting. It offers collaboration tools, CRM, social networks, accounting programs, bug trackers, customer service dashboards, software-as-a-service and marketing tools. The company was founded by Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson on March 5, 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

IBM Phytel, Inc. provides population health management software solutions. Its products include IBM Phytel Outreach, IBM Phytel Insight, IBM Phytel Coordinate, IBM Phytel Engage, IBM Phytel Transition, IBM Phytel Remind and IBM Phytel PQRS. The firm offers solutions for automate care management, patient centered medical home, reducing readmissions, improving patient compliance, reporting quality measures and increasing patient engagement. The company was founded in 1996 by James Neil Smiley and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

MarkMonitor, Inc. provides enterprise brand protection solutions. The firm specializes in domain management, anti-piracy, and fraud. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Egnyte, Inc. engages in the provision of enterprise file sharing services. Its products are Egnyte Connect a secure file sharing solution and Egnyte Protect, a content governance solution. Its content intelligence platform delivers content collaboration and governance in the cloud or on-premises. The company was founded by Rajesh Ram, Kris Lahiri, Amrit Jassal, and Vineet K. Jain in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Confluence Technologies, Inc. provides investment data management automation solutions. Its services include implementation, training, consulting, custom development, business support, technical support, performance reporting outsourcing service (PROS), price distribution and index reporting. The company was founded by Mark S. Evans in 1991 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Part of International Business Machines Corp., Pure Atria Corp. develops, markets, and supports comprehensive software products. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. Pure Atria was acquired by Rational Software Corp. on July 31, 1997 for $700.61 million.

Center For Reimagining Learning, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that runs the Open edX project, a massively scalable learning software technology used by top organizations worldwide, including Microsoft and IBM. The private company is based in Cambridge. The American company offers a marketplace of service and technology providers to customize, enhance, and augment Open edX courses. With over 55 million learners reached, the platform enables online campuses, instructor-led courses, degree programs, and self-paced courses using a single platform. Stephanie Khurana has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. provides treatment to cancer patients and also researches new cancer diagnostics, treatments, and preventions. The firm's patients receive treatment through its cancer centers operated with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The company was founded by Sidney Farber in 1947 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

RevelOps, Inc. operates a cloud based log management and intelligence platform for data analysis across applications, systems and networks. Its software product Logentries helps large companies, to run software and data transactions to isolate glitches within a myriad of log files. The firm helps users to highlight errors, warnings and exceptions, or business events such as log-ins, registrations and payments with real-time email, mobile and webhook alerts with its products. The company was founded by Viliam Holub and Trevor Parsons in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides nuclear testing services. The Laboratory's security needs include countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and strengthening homeland security against the terrorist use of such weapons. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

Part of The Charles Schwab Corp., Schwab Institutional is a company that provides financial advisory services. The company is based in Chicago, IL.

Prosper Marketplace, Inc. operates as a holding company with interest in operating a peer-to-peer online credit platform. The firm through its subsidiary Proper Funding operates an online marketplace that permits the lender members to bid on loan listings and purchases. It handles the funding and servicing of the loan on behalf of the matched borrowers and investors. The company was founded by Christian A. Larsen and John B. Witchel on March 22, 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Schwab Charles & Co., Inc. engages in the provision of investment products and services to retirement and other benefit participants. It offers trading, banking, small business solutions, investment tools and research. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Automattic, Inc. develops web pages and software. It offers visual information processing hosting, free blogging software, blog designing, plug-in development, training, setup and social media planning services. The company was founded by Matthew Charles Mullenweg in August 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Renew Financial Group LLC provides renewable, energy efficiency, and water saving financing for residential and commercial projects. Its services include solar panel financing; windows and doors financing; heating and cooling financing; roofing and roof replacement financing; landscaping and turf financing; hurricane protection financing; earthquake protection financing; and home improvement financing. The company was founded by Stephen Compagni Portis, Cisco DeVries, and Mimi Frusha in 2008 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Sonrai Security, Inc. operates as a cloud based security company. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Fredericton, Canada.

Notarize, Inc. engages in the provision of digital remote notarization solution services. It offers a mobile notary signing service for mortgages, deeds, real estate documents, loan applications, loan modifications, structured settlement documents, walk through recording, debt consolidation documents, power of attorney documents, and other documents needing a notarization. The firm also provides title searches, as well as e-notarizing, e-signing, e-closing, and e-recording services. The company was founded by Patrick Kinsel and Adam Pase in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

OM1, Inc. operates as a digital health company, which focuses on solving the problem of determining and understanding the true results of healthcare. The firm specializes in Health Data, Health Outcomes, Patient Reported Outcomes, Predictive Analytics, Outcomes Measurement, Outcomes Management and Value-Based Care. The company was founded by Richard Gliklich in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

XANT Inc. engages in the provision of lead management tools. It offers e-mail, fax and sales work-flow management built into contact management software. It also provides implementation, certification, training, consulting, customer support, and custom development services. The company was founded by David R. Elkington and Kenneth Krogue in November 2004 and is headquartered in Provo, UT.

Wiffledan, Inc. designs and develops application software. Its Vhoto technology enables users to import video from their device library or use the Vhoto camera to capture new shots. The firm Vhoto application evaluates video frames on various dimensions, including blur, contrast, faces, smiles, novelty, and user intent; and extracts the best moments as still photos. The company was founded by Hugh Crean and Noah Heller in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, WA.

Lob.com, Inc. provides a solution for developers looking to integrate printing into web/mobile applications. Its services include post cards, letters, checks, area mail and address verification. The company was founded by Harry Zhang and Leore Avidar in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Art.com, Inc. retails wall art and complementary décor. The firm offers limited-edition prints, hand-painted originals, home accessories, framing, and specialty brands photos. The company was founded by Brandon Carr, Joshua Chodniewicz, Greg Hart, and Michael Heinstein in 1998 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Getty Images, Inc. creates and distributes visual and digital media contents through online. Its products include Getty images API, media manager, image.net, iStock and Photos.com. The firm offers rights and clearances, image collections, plugins and extensions, premium access and custom solutions. The company was founded by Mark Harris Getty and Jonathan David Klein in March 1995 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.