Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital is a private investment platform targeting late-stage growth equity and credit investments in technology, healthcare, consumer, digital media and other high-growth sectors.
We specialize in making equity and credit investments in technology and other high-growth sectors, such as healthcare, digital media, e-commerce, consumer and business services. Our team predominantly invests in North America and Western Europe. Our focus is on late-stage private companies, largely with established products and services addressing established markets seeking capital to scale revenue and expand business operations.
In addition to capital, the team relies on its industry experience to drive strategic growth, improve board governance, optimize capital structures, enhance operational efficiency, recruit senior executives and advise on strategic and financial liquidity. We seek to leverage the Morgan Stanley global brand, insights, resources and relationships in all our investment activities.
Investments typically range from $10 million - $25 million per transaction but there may be additional size flexibility through syndicate and co-investor relationships. Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital typically leads investments, but will also co-lead and participate in syndicated opportunities.
We generally do not take controlling ownership positions, so our investment strategy is predicated upon a partnership framework with founders, management teams and fellow investors. Value creation is driven by growth with a particular focus on capital efficiency and demonstrated unit economics.
Expansion Capital’s Advisory Partners provide an additional resource across our investment portfolio. Advisory Partners often participate in the examination of investment opportunities, serve on company boards, share their market and business insights and consult with portfolio founders and management to drive growth throughout the life cycle of an investment.
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and its predecessors have invested in the growth sectors for over three decades. We believe we are unique in our ability to offer private equity or credit investment to late-stage growth companies with the flexibility to lead or syndicate investments. Our investment team and our portfolio companies benefit from Morgan Stanley's global resources, network and franchise. Our long tenure and unique relationship with Morgan Stanley affords our portfolio companies unparalleled access to thought leaders, industry experts, operational expertise and managerial talent. We believe that our experience and reputation enables us to build market leaders which are more valuable and better positioned, and thus able to drive outcomes which maximize exit value for our companies and our investors.
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Virginia-based Decisiv is the provider of the largest asset service management ecosystem for the commercial vehicle industry. The Decisiv Service Relationship Management (SRM) platform is the foundation for the nearly 5,000 service locations across North America that manage more than 4 million service and repair events for commercial vehicles annually.
Elligo Health Research ("Elligo"), a healthcare-enabling research organization powered by the novel IntElligo Research Stack technology, uses electronic health records and the trusted patient and physician relationship to ensure all patients have access to clinical research as a care option. Elligo directly engages physicians and patients who otherwise would not participate in clinical research and accelerate the development of new pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device and diagnostic products.
Lightbend provides an opensource platform for building reactive applications for the JVM, consisting of the Play Framework, Akka middleware and Scala programming langua, with additional supporting products and development tools such as the Slick database library for Scala and the sbt build tool. Lightbend also provides training, consulting and commercial support on the platform.
Pluribus Networks delivers highly scalable, automated and cost-efficient data center network solutions based on the principles of disaggregation and controllerless SDN automation. The Linux-based Netvisor® ONE operating system and the Adaptive Cloud Fabric™ controllerless SDN software have been purposely built to deliver radically automated networking along with superior economics by leveraging white box switches including Pluribus’ own Freedom™ Series of switches. The Adaptive Cloud Fabric controllerless SDN architecture is optimized to deliver a modern network fabric underlay and overlay across data center sites to support distributed cloud with rich services, automated operations, intrinsic security, comprehensive visibility and no single point of failure. Pluribus is deployed by more than 350 customers, including more than 100 tier one mobile network operators, in mission critical networks around the globe.
Founded in 2002 and based in San Jose, California, cPacket Networks, Inc. is a provider of high-speed network performance monitoring and security solutions. The Company’s custom ASIC and FPGA-powered systems and software enables their customers to enjoy greater control, visibility, and performance within complex networking environments operating at the highest speeds currently deployed.
Alternative Behavior Strategies, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Company offers Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy in the home, as well as other services such as speech and occupational therapy in clinic settings. The Company’s primary ABA therapy services are provided by an in-house workforce consisting of over 50 Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) and over 375 part-time Behavior Interventionists (BIs), treating patients in Utah, North Carolina and California.
Founded in 2011 and based in San Diego, California, Classy, Inc. provides fundraising software to nonprofit organizations and social enterprises. The Company’s software platform includes a fundraising suite that offers various modules such as campaign management, customer relationship management, automated engagement and reporting / analytics.
Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, CA, Chairish, Inc. is a leading online marketplace for resale vintage and pre-owned furniture, décor and art. The Company holds no inventory, curates for style and quality, and focuses on professional sellers (e.g., dealers, stores, designers, etc.).
Neo4j, Inc. was founded in 2007 by Emil Eifrem and is based in San Mateo, California. In addition to its US presence, the company has a large technical development center based in Malmo, Sweden. The company pioneered the Graph Platform in the Database Management System (“DBMS”) software market. DBMS is software that enables enterprises to create, retrieve, update and manage distributed, unstructured and complex data in a real time manner. The Graph Platform offered by Neo4j enables solutions that are faster and require less code than traditional databases.
Concentra is a UK-based business that offers SaaS solutions for advanced analytics, data visualization and scenario modelling for Human Resources (“HR”), organization design and workforce planning. Its flagship product, OrgVue, provides enterprises improved organization design visualization tools to measure and analyze workforce changes. Concentra’s emerging software solution, SupplyVue, offers supply chain analytics to gain visibility across the entire supply chain.
Sprout, based in Montvale, New Jersey, is a producer of baby food, toddler purees and “All Family” products, which include up-age pouches and other snacks. Sprout has more than 50 organic offerings that use only high quality organic ingredients. Sprout’s products are distributed across the grocery, mass market, natural/specialty, and e-commerce verticals.
VizExplorer is a business intelligence software company headquartered in San Diego, California. Via its proprietary visualization technology, the company offers operational intelligence solutions to enterprise customers within the regulated, land-based gaming and entertainment verticals to provide gaming floor optimization, visitor behavior analytics and customer marketing.
Elevate provides outsourced legal services to law firms and corporate legal departments in the United States and internationally. The Company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with its consultants, lawyers, and technologists based in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Continental Europe, India, the Philippines, and Australia.
Mondee, based in Foster City, California, is an airline ticket consolidator that manages and markets negotiated contracts with airlines at discounted pricing to publicly published rates. The Company manages thousands of contracts with approximately 450 different airlines for 77,000+ discrete routes.
Tiff’s Treats makes and delivers classic, baked-to-order cookies and brownies straight from the oven to the home or office, warm, in about an hour. Founded in 1999, what started as two friends baking cookies at University of Texas at Austin to help fellow students get through exams has now grown to over 30 stores in Texas and Georgia, with more than 700 employees, baking more than 80 million cookies since its inception.
A leading online marketplace for voiceover talent and other audio products and services.
Eska Water is a Canadian bottler, seller and distributor of carbonated, flavored and flat spring water.
Quentic (formerly EcoIntense GmbH) provides environmental, health and safety software solutions for businesses to drive down costs and maximize performance.
A leading online retailer of specialized and technical products in the outdoor, optical and laboratory categories.
RocketLawyer is an online legal destination website for individuals and small businesses.
A leading developer of consumer products and content for children specifically focused on delivering superior educational content through its Nabi devices.
HighQ is a London-based provider of Software-as-a-Service enterprise software products including secure file sharing, project management and collaboration tools for professional service organizations.
Vigilant is a provider of license plate and facial recognition products and solutions.
Provider of cloud-managed enterprise WiFi solutions to large- and medium-sized enterprises, higher education and primary schools.
Provider of cervical and lumbar artificial discs used in total disc replacement surgery.
Provider of antennas and radio frequency chips to the mobile and Wi-Fi/Set-Top Box OEM market.
XSInc provides e-commerce and data management solutions for the life science and agricultural industries.
A leading provider of innovative cell-based assays and services for drug discovery and development.
Good Technology Corporation is a leading provider of multi-platform enterprise mobility solutions. The company’s “Good for Enterprise” and “Good for Government” solutions deliver mobile security and control that allow IT departments to protect the enterprise while allowing end users to connect and collaborate on their mobile phone or tablet of choice in a secure fashion.
Socialware, Inc., based is Austin, TX, is an enterprise Software as a Service provider of enabling regulatory compliant communications utilizing social networking platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
Develops unified communication and mobile collaboration solutions.
Plateau Systems is an enterprise learning management software platform. Acquired by Successfactors, acquired by SAP (NYSE:SAP).
E2open (NASDAQ:EOPN) is a global computer, electronics and telecommunications e-marketplace.
Provides ultrasound accelerated drug delivery catheters for rapid dissolution of blood clots. Acquired by BTG plc, (LSE:BTG).
Sendmail is an internet mail platform with leading infrastructure solutions. Acquired by Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ:PFPT).
Developer of therapeutic agents.
Internap (NASDAQ:INAP) provides internet connectivity services.
Arcadian Management provides Medicare Advantage to underserved markets. Acquired by Humana (NYSE:HUM).
Constant Contact (NASDAQ:CTCT) develops e-mail marketing solutions.
PeopleClick provides human capital management software. Acquired by Authoria.
Developer of equipment for medical device companies.
Provides minimally invasive therapies for pulmonary disesases.
SPSS provides statistical data analysis software. (NASDAQ:SPSS), acquired by IBM (NYSE:IBM).
Provider of software for project-driven companies and departments.
Business-to-business marketplace for chemical companies. Acquired by ICE.
Creates products and services in data networking technology for internet networks.
LoopNet is a commercial real estate listing service. (NASDAQ:LOOP)
Healogics, previously known as National Healing Corporation, was the second largest wound management company in the U.S.
Tarari creates content inspection and acceleration solutions to improve network and application performance. Acquired by LSI Logic (NYSE:LSI).
Avamar provides backup and restore software and systems. Acquired by EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC).
BenefitMall provides online benefits and health insurance. Acquired by Allied Capital Corporation (NYSE:ALD).
Provides internet security management software and services. Acquired by British Telephone Group, (NYSE:BT).
Freightquote.com provides online business-to-business freight solutions.
Medsite creates educational and promotional solutions for the healthcare industry. Acquired by WebMD, (Nasdaq:WBMD).
Develops radiofrequency ablation devices for minimally invasive cancer treatment. (NASDAQ:RITA), since acquired by AngioDynamics (NASDQ:ANGO).
Bowstreet was a leading provider of portal-based tools and technology. Acquired by IBM (NYSE:IBM).
Control Delivery Systems provides drug delivery systems. Acquired by pSivida (NASDAQ:PSDV).
Cross Country Staffing (NASDAQ:CCRN) provides healthcare staffing services.
An application service provider (ASP) for enterprise software solutions.
Creates web-based content, tools and services for the education market.
FormFactor (NASDAQ:FORM) develops wafer-level test and packaging solutions for the semiconductor industry.
U.S. Healthworks provides workers' compensation health services.
European IT services and consulting firm.
Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) develops internet and client/server medication management solutions.
Evolving Systems (NASDAQ:EVOL) is a telecom software solutions vendor.
Provider of detail-critical business processes, including translation, online marketing, global content management and application testing solutions, which ensure global brand consistency, local relevancy and technical usability across all touch points of the customer lifecycle.
Provides corporate IP services in Italy.
A wireless data communications company.
The Medicines Company (NASDAQ:MDCO) is an outsourced drug development company.
Frontstep is an enterprise resource planning software provider. Acquired by Mapics, (NASDA:MAPX).
Internet navigation system company.
Business-to-consumer/business-to-business e-commerce website for product and service queries.
Provides patient transportation services.
A business-to-business marketplace focusing on small- to mid-sized businesses.
Business-to-business company focused on the design and construction market. Acquired by Autodesk.
Cardiac Pathways develops innovative solutions for cardiac and ablation catheters. Acquired by Boston Scientific, (NYSE:BSX).
Manager of dental care practices.
IntegraMed America (NASDAQ:INMD) is a leading provider of infertility services.
Provides datacom consulting and web-based training and support
Creates document and workflow management systems.
Provides IT services to middle-market/large enterprise customers.
A business-to-business e-commerce exchange company focused on the packaging industry.
Information provider for the internet economy.
Websense (NASDAQ:WBSN) provides internet usage management software.
Produces medical products that predict premature births.
A provider of software platforms for e-businesses. Acquired by BROKAT.
Commerce One (NASDAQ:CMRC) provides global e-commerce solutions.
E-commerce company focused on the shoe industry.
Provides real estate information on the internet.
Develops digital control technology for electric motors.
Provider of integrated healthcare information systems.
Provides image management software. Now ScanSoft (NASDAQ:SSFT).
Developer of multimedia devices for PCs called MPACT! Acquired by ATI Technologies.
Developer of client/server financial software applications.