Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital
VC Fund
New York, United States
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital is a private equity platform targeting late-stage growth investments in technology, health care, consumer, digital media and other high-growth sectors. For nearly three decades, Morgan Stanley has successfully pursued growth investment opportunities. Expansion Capital’s experienced investment team combines extensivegrowth equity and franchise experience to pursue a value-creation strategy focused on operational and financial measures. The team works closely with the successful entrepreneurs and business professionals underlying its investments to assist in building proprietary advantage for portfolio companies. Expansion Capital also leverages the brand and global network of Morgan Stanley to source investment intelligence and opportunities.
- Total investments:
- 110
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
- Fund size:
- $400M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital invests in
Stages Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital invests in
Countries Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 39 (35%)
- Enterprise Software 18 (16%)
- SaaS 14 (13%)
- Health Care 14 (13%)
- Information Technology 13 (12%)
Stage
- Funding Round 35 (32%)
- Series B 12 (11%)
- Series C 11 (10%)
- Private Equity 11 (10%)
- Series D 10 (9%)
Country
- United States 77 (70%)
- United Kingdom 5 (5%)
- Canada 2 (2%)
- France 2 (2%)
- Germany 2 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pete Chung
Managing Principal
|
Managing Principal | Total investments: 20 | Find email | |
|
Bill Reiland
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lincoln Isetta
Managing Principal
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Managing Principal | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Melissa Daniels
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Stanley Hua
Executive Director
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Executive Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundcover is a K8s application monitoring solution that reinvents the domain with eBPF. The platform is designed for modern production environments, providing teams with robust tools to visualize metrics, logs, and traces from various sources effectively. Groundcover enables detailed dashboards that assist in making sense of complex data, crucialfor monitoring and analysis in today's cloud applications. | $100M / Series C / Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| Viken Detection is a research and technology development company focusing on X-ray physics and the design of analytical devices. The company's devices provide security imaging and material identification, which help to protect the public from terrorism and other dangerous dangers, allowing law enforcement and safety inspection agencies toremain vigilant and avoid drug trafficking.Viken was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. | Private Equity / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose. | $33M / Series C / Jun 02, 2026 | ||
| Censys provides an internet intelligence platform for threat hunting and exposure management. The company's platform gives organizations a comprehensive real-time view of global networks and devices to help businesses discover the devices, networks, and infrastructure on the internet. | $40M / Series D / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| Sokin is a leading financial service provider that enables global payments for both consumers and businesses. Sokin believes in giving you the power to make payments and transfer money as many times as you want per month! Whether it’s sending money back home or transfers to friends or even settling with businesses using Sokin, our innovativeprocess makes the task quick and easy.Sokin delivers global payments for a fixed fee, is commission and hassle free!Transferring money internationally is complicated and expensive. Sometimes there is a lack of transparency in the fees you pay. With our transparent fixed monthly costs, for businesses and consumers, there are no hidden charges. You will not have to spend hours researching the best rates!Our cost effective solution is simple to understand: One Monthly Fee. This will to allow you to make payments in over 200 countries and the ability to exchange money in over 150 countries in over 35 different currencies. Sokin can also transfer any currency into any bank account in China within 2 hours excluding weekends and Chinese bank holidays.To find out more about the only payment provider to provide global payments for a fixed fee, commission free and hassle free – download our app and sign up to ensure you don’t miss out on key messages! | $50M / Series B / Dec 01, 2025 | ||
| Our Mission: Leverage data, technology and industry expertise to efficiently reduce insurance costs and improve safety for everyone. History: Cover Whale, an InsurTech Broker founded in 2019, uses data and technology to provide a trucking platform that streamlines the application and quoting process to provide industry-leading 24/7 accessto fast quotes, binders and policy documents.Our current product offerings for Commercial Auto include: - Auto Liability - Auto Physical Damage - Motor Truck Cargo - Truckers General Liability - Non-Trucking Liability | $40M / Series B / Jul 22, 2025 | ||
| Windfall provides people intelligence and AI workflow solutions to help organizations identify, understand, and engage with their target audiences through data-driven insights and automation. The platform integrates machine learning and propensity modeling to enhance go-to-market strategies across various sectors, including marketing, sales,analytics, and nonprofit development.Windfall's services include data enrichment, wealth screening, and predictive analytics, allowing clients to gain a comprehensive understanding of their constituents. These tools facilitate the creation of targeted campaigns and personalized outreach efforts. The platform supports integration with systems such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and Blackbaud, enabling seamless incorporation into existing workflows. | $65M / Series B / Apr 23, 2025 | ||
| FreshBooks is changing the way business owners manage their books. Its owner-first accounting platform, loved by businesses in over 160 countries, takes an easy-to-use approach to manage finances, billing, payments, and client engagement. FreshBooks, known for its 10x Stevie award-winning customer support, serves customers of all sizes fromoffices in Canada, Croatia, Mexico, Netherlands, and the US. | $125M / Debt Financing / Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| NovoPayment's API-based Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform provides simplified, next-level digital financial services to banks, fintechs, merchants, and other service providers. The company accelerates financial innovation globally, allowing businesses to adapt, scale and evolve by delivering digital banking, payment and card solutions inrecord time. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, the company serves incumbents and disruptors across 13 markets via full stack and modular delivery models, supporting some of today's most sought-after use cases. In addition, the company accelerates the work of software developers via its pioneering Developer Hub. For more information, visit novopayment.com. | $20M / Series A / Nov 12, 2024 | ||
| Datamaran is one of the world’s most sophisticated and powerful semantic business intelligence tools.Former GRI Director, Marjella Alma, recognised the problems facing businesses in monitoring and reporting on risk, sustainability and ESG issues, and decided to take action. Together with former Wall Street Quant specialist, JP Lecourt, and formerTechnology and Analytics consultant, Jérôme Basdevant, they formed Datamaran, and began work on creating an AI tool that would provide fast, efficient and powerful business intelligence on large unstructured data sets from the global corporate reporting landscape. | $33M / Series C / Sep 19, 2024 | ||
| See all 110 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital invest in?
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 110 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital?
The team at Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital includes Pete Chung (Managing Principal), Bill Reiland (Managing Director) and Lincoln Isetta (Managing Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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