Morgan Stanley Venture Partners

Total investments

30

Average round size

176M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

0.34

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

14

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingSemiconductorElectronicsTelecommunicationsWirelessManagement Information Systems

Summary

Morgan Stanley Venture Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1935. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Jeb Miller. The overall number of key employees were 1.

Opposing the other organizations, this Morgan Stanley Venture Partners works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is more than 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2002. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, XML Fund, The Aurora Funds. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TCV, XML Fund, Thomas, McNerney & Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oak Investment Partners, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, TCV.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Semiconductor. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Groupon, Luminous Networks, Mobilian Corp. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
8
Exits
14
Rounds per year
0.34
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • Manufacturing (8)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • Electronics (4)
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Investments by region
  • China (1)
  • United States (26)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2005
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
512M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
6.78

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Tarari 16 Jun 2004 Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics Early Stage Venture 13M United States, California, San Diego
Tarari 01 Feb 2006 Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics Late Stage Venture 14M United States, California, San Diego

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