Total investments

97

Average round size

32M

Portfolio companies

80

Rounds per year

2.55

Lead investments

24

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

32

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataMedical

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, startups are often financed by Accel, Wing Venture Capital, Vintage Investment Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are One Peak Partners, Van Wagoner Ventures, LLC, Sapphire Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Morgan Stanley, Wellington Management, SoftBank.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital works on 18 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2006. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Nutanix, Constant Contact, Cohesity. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Analytics.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
97
Lead investments
24
Exits
32
Rounds per year
2.55
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Software (40)
  • Enterprise Software (24)
  • Information Technology (17)
  • SaaS (15)
  • Health Care (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (85)
  • Germany (5)
  • France (1)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Canada (2)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
184M
Group Appearance index
0.64
Avg. company exit year
19
Avg. multiplicator
2.75
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
airSlate 12 Jan 2021 Software, SaaS, Document Management, Productivity Tools, Management Information Systems Early Stage Venture 40M United States, Massachusetts
Ecwid 21 May 2020 E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS, Small and Medium Businesses, Point of Sale Late Stage Venture 42M United States, California

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