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 $15 million - $75 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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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.
Bluestone Lane is an Australian-influenced hospitality and lifestyle brand centered on providing authentic, premium coffee and café experiences. Since opening its first location in July 2013, Bluestone Lane has become the fastest-growing premium coffee and café brand in New York City, having opened 30 locations across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and New Jersey and a flagship coffee roastery and production facility in Brooklyn, New York.
Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Scale Computing software eliminates the need for traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. Using patented HyperCore™ technology, the self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime. When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing is the ideal infrastructure platform.
PowerToFly is an end-to-end diversity, equity, and inclusion human resources technology solution focused on talent attraction, acquisition, and retention of underrepresented talent. Through a single, unified platform, the Company provides employers with a solution for talent acquisition, hiring, upskilling, and retention, and candidates with free access to job events/boards and educational job resources such as mentorship and training.
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.
CompStak is the leading crowdsourced commercial real estate platform. They handle millions of data points each week to create a comprehensive, robust CRE datat set. CompStak envisions a commercial real estate industry in which accurate and transparent data leads to better, faster deals. CompStak is available on a subscription basis exclusively to qualified lenders, landlords, and investors operating in the commercial real estate space. A growing list of top tier banks, private equity funds, owner/operators, REITS, and advisors rely on CompStak.
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.
ComplianceMetric ("CMX") is a tech startup that provides a platform to enable companies to gain control and transparency over their supply chains. Leading brands trust CMX's cloud-based Enterprise Quality Management Software (EQMS) CMX1 to help them achieve and maintain Operational and Quality Excellence. For over a decade, CMX has led the market with the most comprehensive, user-friendly, cloud-based EQMS platform for food and consumer brands. It’s the only enterprise solution to effectively combine supply chain quality and operational excellence into a single, fully configurable operating platform.
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.
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.
airSlate provides a suite of cloud-based forms editing, eSignature and workflow software. The company’s forms editing software enables SMB customers to produce PDF documents ranging from W-2 forms, to I-9 forms, and HR onboarding forms (over 10,000 forms in their library today), edit documents, and then send for eSignature; airSlate’s newest product allows customers to design custom workflows to automate an entire document from production to eSignature. Use cases range from real estate transactions to civil disagreements, clinical workflows, and B2B software deals.
OpsRamp was founded in 2014 and is based in San Jose, California. The company provides cloud-based IT operations management SaaS solutions for observability of infrastructure, application, and network performance metrics. OpsRamp’s solution is horizontal, with broad applicability across a number of enterprise end-markets, including the Life Sciences, Information Technology, Financial Services, and Telecommunications industries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A leading online marketplace for voiceover talent and other audio products and services.
GumGum is a digital media company with proprietary visual intelligence technology used to analyze images and videos.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of voice and text connectivity products and solutions to small- and medium-sized businesses, not-for-profit organizations and political agencies.
A leading online retailer of specialized and technical products in the outdoor, optical and laboratory categories.
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.).
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 2009 and based in Encinitas, CA, Ecwid is a leading provider of platform-independent, ecommerce enablement solutions for small businesses (“SMB”). Ecwid’s SaaS platform allows SMB customers to quickly and seamlessly incorporate a fully-featured online storefront to their existing website.
MotionPoint is a leading provider of website localization services to Fortune 1000 companies.
Founded in 2003 and based in San Jose, CA, Retail Solutions, Inc. is a developer of digital technology intended to permit CPG manufacturers and retailers to optimize their market position. The Company's technology offers business intelligence by capturing consumer demand signals to manage, analyze, and activate customers' data to help the retailers to respond to consumer demand
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.
Provides life science tools and develops molecular diagnostics.
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.
Nutanix is a provider of data center convergence software.
A leading provider of innovative cell-based assays and services for drug discovery and development.
Quentic (formerly EcoIntense GmbH) provides environmental, health and safety software solutions for businesses to drive down costs and maximize performance.
Core Security creates security software for enterprise vulnerability assessment. Acquired by Courion.
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.
Global Custom Commerce, Inc. is the largest North American online retailer of customized window coverings such as blinds, shades, draperies and wallpaper.
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).
Perceptive Software provides document imaging and workflow software. Acquired by Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE:LXK).
SouthernCare is a provider of hospice services. Acquired by Kohlberg & Co.
Constant Contact (NASDAQ:CTCT) develops e-mail marketing solutions.
HealthStream (NASDAQ:HSTM) is a content management system for Internet-based continuing medical education.
Business-to-business e-commerce company focused on petroleum services and equipment.
Biotechnology company focused on neurological disorders. Acquired by US WorldMeds.
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).
IDeaS provides revenue management software. Acquired by SAS Institute, Inc.
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.
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.
Medsite creates educational and promotional solutions for the healthcare industry. Acquired by WebMD, (Nasdaq:WBMD).
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).
Provider of a minimally invasive tissue biopsy device. Acquired by Hologic, (NASDAQ:HOLX).
AireSpace develops wireless networking hardware. Acquired by Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO).
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.
European IT services and consulting firm.
Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) develops internet and client/server medication management solutions.
Provider of laser-programmable gate arrays.
Evolving Systems (NASDAQ:EVOL) is a telecom software solutions vendor.
An early stage networking semiconductor company.
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) develops minimally invasive surgery systems.
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.
Builder of mobile internet businesses.
A wireless data communications 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.
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.
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.