MSD Capital

Summary

MSD Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2003. The typical startup value when the investment from MSD Capital is more than 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this MSD Capital performs on 3 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The current fund was established by Glenn Fuhrman, Michael Dell. The overall number of key employees were 9.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the MSD Capital, startups are often financed by Insight Partners, CHL Medical Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Insight Partners, Cisco, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Insight Partners, CHL Medical Partners, New Enterprise Associates.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite 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 most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Internet. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cloudera, Gusto, SparkCognition For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.