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.
DataGuard is a Software-as-a-Service company focused on privacy, information security, and compliance. DataGuard is the trusted partner to over 3,000 mid-sized enterprises (SME) and corporates operating in over 50 countries. Customers use the DataGuard platform to comply with regulation (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, EU Whistleblower Directive) and obtain information security certifications (e.g., ISO 27001, TISAX, SOC 2). DataGuard’s end-to-end solution drastically reduces the time and money companies spend to keep their personal data protected, their information and assets secure, and their business processes compliant. This enables them to build trust, mitigate risks, prevent breaches, and achieve their business goals.
Van Leeuwen Ice Cream was launched out of a buttery yellow ice cream truck in 2008 by Laura O’Neill and brothers Ben and Pete Van Leeuwen. The trio set out to revive the classic American ice cream truck, using exceptional ingredients and techniques. In just a decade, the beloved Brooklyn-based company has grown to include scoop shops and trucks across NYC and LA and sells pints in over 2000 stores across the country, including Whole Foods Market, Sprouts, Safeway, Kings.
Platform.sh is a unified, secure, enterprise-grade platform for building, running and scaling web applications. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Paris and San Francisco. Platform.sh employs 340 people across 36 countries and is available in Europe, the United States and Asia, through global partnerships with AWS, GCP, Azure and OVHcloud.
Conversica is a leading provider of Conversational AI solutions, uniquely focused on revenue growth. Conversica helps enterprise marketing, sales, and customer success teams attract, acquire and grow customers at scale across the entire customer revenue lifecycle. Conversica AI Assistants serve as digital team members and autonomously engage prospects, existing customers, or partners in human-like, two-way interactions at scale to drive towards the next best action, whether that’s scheduling a sales meeting, or gauging interest to buy additional products or services.
Gozio Health offers an end-to-end, customizable digital health platform exclusively for healthcare systems. Gozio’s extensible mobile platform enables seamless consumer interactions and provides an anytime, anywhere connection to patients that improves their overall experience and access to care. Popular patient engagement features include patented indoor wayfinding with turn-by-turn navigation, virtual visits, physician directories, appointment scheduling, access to electronic health records, Urgent Care and Emergency Department wait-times, and extensive analytics capabilities. Gozio customers surveyed in a 2021 KLAS Research Emerging Technology Spotlight report found 100% satisfaction and improved experience for patients and staff.
Phrasee revolutionizes customer experiences by optimizing the language brands use across the full customer journey. Its AI-powered SaaS platform brings together natural language generation, machine learning and dynamic optimization, making Phrasee the only provider of its kind to generate, optimize, automate, and analyze language in real time. Phrasee boosts customer engagement and increases lifetime value for the world's leading B2C brands – including Domino's, eBay, FARFETCH, Groupon, Party City and Walgreens – all while adhering to companies' unique brand standards and voice. Today, over 1 billion people across four continents have responded to Phrasee-generated language.
The Lifetime Value Co. ("LTV") is an information services technology platform comprising a portfolio of brands that provide easy access to information to help make all of life’s decisions, big and small. LTV’s brands include best-in-class web-based and mobile products that put the power of data into the hands of customers. Millions of people trust LTV for insight into people, properties, businesses, and vehicles. LTV is powered by its global team of 150 employees.
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.).
Medsphere Systems Corporation is a Carlsbad, CA-based provider of healthcare IT solutions, including electronic health record, practice management and revenue cycle management solutions. The company serves small / medium sized inpatient, ambulatory centers and physician practices within the acute care, outpatient and behavioral health markets.
Integral Development Corp. is a financial technology company that helps its customers, including banks, retail brokers, and asset managers, outperform their competition in the foreign exchange (FX) market through innovative solutions for workflow management and advanced execution. Founded in 1993 and based in Palo Alto, CA, Integral maintains development, support, and sales offices in Palo Alto, New York, London, Tokyo, Singapore and Bangalore.
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.
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.
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.
Provides life science tools and develops molecular diagnostics.
Digital Clinical Research Organization offering technology-driven clinical trial services to biopharmaceutical and medical device companies conducting Phase 1-4 clinical trials and registries.
MotionPoint is a leading provider of website localization services to Fortune 1000 companies.
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Marina Del Rey, CA, SmartyPants produces premium all-in-one multi-vitamins in a variety of formats for children and adults.
Designs, develops, and markets business application solutions.
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.
Domiciled in Israel with U.S. headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, Doron Gordon founded Samanage Ltd. in 2008. The company is a leading public cloud SaaS provider of IT service management (“ITSM”) software for medium-sized companies. Samanage’s cloud software provides a comprehensive solution for its customers, offering a centralized location for employees to submit various requests and for agents to manage workflow across functional departments for multiple ticketing use cases.
Provider of cloud-managed enterprise WiFi solutions to large- and medium-sized enterprises, higher education and primary schools.
Provider of antennas and radio frequency chips to the mobile and Wi-Fi/Set-Top Box OEM market.
A leading provider of innovative cell-based assays and services for drug discovery and development.
Core Security creates security software for enterprise vulnerability assessment. Acquired by Courion.
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.
Global Custom Commerce, Inc. is the largest North American online retailer of customized window coverings such as blinds, shades, draperies and wallpaper.
Provides ultrasound accelerated drug delivery catheters for rapid dissolution of blood clots. Acquired by BTG plc, (LSE:BTG).
Arcadian Management provides Medicare Advantage to underserved markets. Acquired by Humana (NYSE:HUM).
Perceptive Software provides document imaging and workflow software. Acquired by Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE:LXK).
Constant Contact (NASDAQ:CTCT) develops e-mail marketing solutions.
HealthStream (NASDAQ:HSTM) is a content management system for Internet-based continuing medical education.
HyPerformix provides predictive IT management. Acquired by CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA).
Biotechnology company focused on neurological disorders. Acquired by US WorldMeds.
IDeaS provides revenue management software. Acquired by SAS Institute, Inc.
Provider of software for project-driven companies and departments.
Creates products and services in data networking technology for internet networks.
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).
BenefitMall provides online benefits and health insurance. Acquired by Allied Capital Corporation (NYSE:ALD).
Ciphergen Biosystems (NASDAQ:CIPH) provides proteomics analysis tools.
Comergent is an enterprise suite of modular eBusiness applications that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the selling process. Acquired by Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of AT&T, (NYSE:T).
Provides internet security management software and services. Acquired by British Telephone Group, (NYSE:BT).
Freightquote.com provides online business-to-business freight solutions.
Develops computer-aided diagnostic systems for use in radiology. Acquired by Hologic (NASDAQ:HOLX).
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.
Develops nitric oxide enhanced medicines. (NASDAQ:NTMD).
Persistence Software provides dynamic caching and transactional servers for e-commerce. (NASDAQ:PRSW), acquired by Progress Software (NASDAQ:PRGS).
European IT services and consulting firm.
Yantra is an eBusiness software for managing high volume transactions. Acquired by Sterling Commerce, a division of IBM (NYSE:IBM).
Provider of laser-programmable gate arrays.
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) develops minimally invasive surgery systems.
The Medicines Company (NASDAQ:MDCO) is an outsourced drug development 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.
Provides high-speed DSL internet access for the telecom industry
Creates document and workflow management systems.
A business-to-business e-commerce exchange company focused on the packaging industry.
Information provider for the internet economy.
Commerce One (NASDAQ:CMRC) provides global e-commerce solutions.
Provides real estate information on the internet.
Develops digital control technology for electric motors.
Tallán is an e-Services provider. Acquired by CMGI (NASDAQ:CMGI)
Telcom Semiconductor develops linear and mixed-signal semiconductor devices. (NASDAQ:TLCM), acquired by Microchip Technology (NASDAQ:MCHP).
Microgenics Holding Corporation provides diagnostics for drug testing. Acquired by Sybron (NYSE:SYB).
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.
Develops software applications for use in plant lifecycle management.
Develops network management software.
Develops customer relationship management software. Acquired by The Baan Co. (NASDAQ:BAAN), previously (NASDAQ:AURM).
Cambridge Heart (NASDAQ:CAMH) researches and develops cardiac diagnostic products.
Enterprise Systems develops healthcare management software. Acquired by McKesson now McKessonHBOC, (NYSE:MCK).
Milestone provides sub-acute hospital management services. Acquired by HCR ManorCare.
Managed Health Network provides mental health management services. Acquired by FHS, now Health Net (NYSE:HNT).
Sanmina (NASDAQ:SANM) provides contract manufacturing solutions.
Manager of child care centers and pre-school programs.
Client-server online transactions processing applications development software
Provider of case tools for IBM mainframes.
Develops unified communication and mobile collaboration solutions.