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MSD Capital

Founders Glenn Fuhrman Michael Dell

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Total investments 51
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$149M
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 2.04
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 16
Key employees 9
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • SaaS
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Health Care
Summary

MSD Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2003. The typical startup value when the investment from MSD Capital is more than 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this MSD Capital performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The current fund was established by Glenn Fuhrman, Michael Dell. The overall number of key employees were 9.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the MSD Capital, startups are often financed by Insight Partners, CHL Medical Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Insight Partners, Cisco, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Insight Partners, CHL Medical Partners, New Enterprise Associates.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Internet. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cloudera, Gusto, SparkCognition For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Way

Hospitality
Media and Entertainment
Retail
Software
$20M01 Nov 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Opto Investments

Advice
Asset Management
FinTech
$145M19 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

ŌURA

Health Care
Mobile Apps
Wearables
Wellness
$100M04 May 2021 Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Pipe

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
$50M09 Mar 2021 Miami, Florida, United States

Guru

Artificial Intelligence
Internet
IT Infrastructure
SaaS
Software
$30M20 Apr 2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
Software
$100M08 Oct 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

Guru

Artificial Intelligence
Internet
IT Infrastructure
SaaS
Software
$25M12 Dec 2018 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

ŌURA

Health Care
Mobile Apps
Wearables
Wellness
$6M03 Oct 2018 Oulu

Gusto

Employee Benefits
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
FinTech
Human Resources
Personal Finance
SaaS
$140M31 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States
News
Cue Health Raises $235M in Financing

– Cue Health Inc. from San Diego closed a $235m financing round.
– The round was led by Perceptive Advisors, MSD Capital, and Koch Strategic Platforms, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, existing investors Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), Decheng Capital, Cavu Ventures, ACME Capital, and others.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth of the company.

Dataminr Closes $475M Financing at $4.1 Billion Valuation

– Dataminr is a real-time information discovery company based in NYC.
– The company closed $475m round of financing at a $4.1b valuation.
– The round was led by Eldridge, Valor Equity Partners, MSD Capital, Reinvent Capital, ArrowMark Partners, IVP, Eden Global, investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value and Lurra Capital.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s growth.

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Total investments 51
Average round size 149M
Rounds per year 2.04
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 16
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Way

Hospitality
Media and Entertainment
Retail
Software
$20M01 Nov 2022 Austin, Texas, United States

Opto Investments

Advice
Asset Management
FinTech
$145M19 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

ŌURA

Health Care
Mobile Apps
Wearables
Wellness
$100M04 May 2021 Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Pipe

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
$50M09 Mar 2021 Miami, Florida, United States

Guru

Artificial Intelligence
Internet
IT Infrastructure
SaaS
Software
$30M20 Apr 2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Machine Learning
Software
$100M08 Oct 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

Guru

Artificial Intelligence
Internet
IT Infrastructure
SaaS
Software
$25M12 Dec 2018 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

ŌURA

Health Care
Mobile Apps
Wearables
Wellness
$6M03 Oct 2018 Oulu

Gusto

Employee Benefits
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
FinTech
Human Resources
Personal Finance
SaaS
$140M31 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States
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