Morgan Stanley

Type

Hedge fund

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

285

Average round size

555M

Portfolio companies

242

Rounds per year

3.20

Lead investments

60

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

99

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingEnergy

Summary

In 1935 was created Morgan Stanley, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the New York.

Besides them, we counted 24 critical employees of this fund in our database.

When the investment is from Morgan Stanley the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Morgan Stanley works on 13 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

The fund has no exact preference 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Uber, ByteDance, Xiaomi For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Manufacturing, FinTech.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Morgan Stanley, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, Venrock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Maverick Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by T. Rowe Price, Kleiner Perkins, TCV.

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Investor highlights

Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
285
Lead investments
60
Exits
99
Rounds per year
3.20
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Software (61)
  • Information Technology (37)
  • Financial Services (34)
  • Manufacturing (23)
  • Energy (21)
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Investments by region
  • United States (181)
  • China (23)
  • India (42)
  • South Africa (1)
  • Canada (5)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
35
Number of Decacorns
45
Number of Minotaurs
33

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
18
Avg. multiplicator
1.85
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Beyond Boundary 29 Nov 2021 Content, Marketing, Content Creators Seed 652K Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Recykal 10 Jan 2022 Information Technology Early Stage Venture 22M Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, India

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