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Morgan Stanley Venture Partners

Founders Jeb Miller

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$176M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 0.34
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 14
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
  • Electronics
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tenglong Holding Group

Data Center
Data Storage
$3B02 Dec 2019 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Solstice Neurosciences

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Marketing
$85M08 Nov 2006 South San Francisco, California, United States

Hyperformix

Apps
Information Technology
Software
$8M30 Aug 2006 Austin, Texas, United States

Novalux

Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
$21M14 Jul 2006 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Tarari

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$14M01 Feb 2006 San Diego, California, United States

iRise

Data Visualization
Enterprise Software
Product Design
SaaS
Software
$15M19 Jan 2005 California, United States

Tarari

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$13M16 Jun 2004 San Diego, California, United States

Above All Software

Computer
Consumer Software
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$6M30 Oct 2002 Redwood City, California, United States

VBrick

Collaboration
Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Unified Communications
Video
Video Conferencing
Video on Demand
Video Streaming
$22M12 Nov 2001 Virginia, United States

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Total investments 30
Average round size 176M
Rounds per year 0.34
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tenglong Holding Group

Data Center
Data Storage
$3B02 Dec 2019 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Solstice Neurosciences

Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Marketing
$85M08 Nov 2006 South San Francisco, California, United States

Hyperformix

Apps
Information Technology
Software
$8M30 Aug 2006 Austin, Texas, United States

Novalux

Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
$21M14 Jul 2006 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Tarari

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$14M01 Feb 2006 San Diego, California, United States

iRise

Data Visualization
Enterprise Software
Product Design
SaaS
Software
$15M19 Jan 2005 California, United States

Tarari

Electronics
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$13M16 Jun 2004 San Diego, California, United States

Above All Software

Computer
Consumer Software
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$6M30 Oct 2002 Redwood City, California, United States

VBrick

Collaboration
Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Unified Communications
Video
Video Conferencing
Video on Demand
Video Streaming
$22M12 Nov 2001 Virginia, United States
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