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Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$48M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.12
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 6
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Analytics
  • Marketing Automation
  • Hardware
  • Information Technology
Summary

Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1935. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

This Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, startups are often financed by Upfront Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, True Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Foundry Group, Upfront Ventures, Morgan Stanley. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upfront Ventures, H.I.G. Growth Partners, Arrowroot Capital Management.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Adjust, littleBits Electronics, Oblong Industries Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy Management, Software.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vector Launch

Aerospace
Space Travel
$70M19 Oct 2018 Tucson, Arizona, United States

littleBits Electronics

Electronics
Hardware
Open Source
Robotics
$46M28 Jul 2015 New York, New York, United States

Oblong Industries

Collaboration
Hardware
Software
$15M01 Jul 2011 Los Angeles, California, United States

ClickFox

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Software
$17M29 Nov 2010 Colorado, United States

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Total investments 11
Average round size 48M
Rounds per year 0.12
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vector Launch

Aerospace
Space Travel
$70M19 Oct 2018 Tucson, Arizona, United States

littleBits Electronics

Electronics
Hardware
Open Source
Robotics
$46M28 Jul 2015 New York, New York, United States

Oblong Industries

Collaboration
Hardware
Software
$15M01 Jul 2011 Los Angeles, California, United States

ClickFox

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Software
$17M29 Nov 2010 Colorado, United States
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