# Morningside Private Investors

> Morningside Private Investors is a VC fund in Ridgefield backing Internet and E-Commerce. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ridgefield, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/morningside-private-investors
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/MorningsidePI
- Website: http://www.morningsidepi.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MorningsidePrivateInvestors

Morningside Private Investors is a VC fund in Ridgefield focused on Internet and E-Commerce. Morningside was established in 1987 to invest in private companies. We invest in smaller middle market companies that manufacture, service or distribute industrial, infrastructure, environmental or engineered products and who have a minimum of $3 million of EBITDA.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 40% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 40% |
| CRM | 1 | 20% |
| News | 1 | 20% |
| Fashion | 1 | 20% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 40% |
| Series C | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 3 | 60% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lamabang | Lamabang, a Chinese social network and ecommerce company. Lamabang targets women at four different stages in their journey to parenthood: pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. The original Lamabang website is a web portal with articles, forums, and a Weibo-style social network complete with a news feed. More than justparenting, topics range from fashion to healthcare to lifestyle. | $100M | Series C | Mar 06, 2015 |  |
| Metao.com | Honey Amoy (metao.com) panniers under the Beijing Science and Technology Co., Ltd. is a specialized site for sea scouring the pursuit of quality of life of people created a variety of overseas franchise famous for high quality products and services to provide users with more quality life. Honey Amoy has dozens of suppliers, nearly a hundred foreignbrands, more than ten thousand commodities, allowing you to enjoy a more convenient, fast, secure and affordable overseas shopping experience. Honey Amoy provide the goods to keep prices consistent with the foreign exchange rate in real-time updates, support RMB payment, you can use Paypal Oh! . We chose a more rapid and safe logistics services for you, our aim is to make your overseas shopping is no longer a difficult task! | $20M | Series B | Nov 18, 2014 |  |
| Idibon | Idibon offers natural language processing solutions that enable organizations to understand unstructured data. It provides text analytics in hundreds of languages globally, with state-of-the-art accuracy. Idibon takes unstructured data like social media, emails, and websites, and provides structured answers to key business intelligence questions.Idibon's proprietary human-in-the-loop machine learning technology enables marketers, data scientists, and application developers to efficiently build adaptable accurate natural language processing solutions. These solutions are tailored to specific business problems in any language, without needing to write a single line of code. | $5.5M | Series A | Oct 16, 2014 |  |
| Snowball Finance | Snowball Finance is an internet financial information service provider that is focused on investment solutions.Snowball Finance's investment and communication platform xueqiu.com provides investors with cross-market and cross-species data query, newsletter subscriptions, and interactive communication services. These services have coveredthe A shares, the Hong Kong stocks, and the U.S. stock market. In addition, Snowball Finance also owns iMeigu (imeigu.com), which serves American stock investors in China. | $40M | Series C | Sep 12, 2014 |  |
| Lamabang | Lamabang, a Chinese social network and ecommerce company. Lamabang targets women at four different stages in their journey to parenthood: pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. The original Lamabang website is a web portal with articles, forums, and a Weibo-style social network complete with a news feed. More than justparenting, topics range from fashion to healthcare to lifestyle. | $20M | Series B | Jul 08, 2014 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Greenwoods Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greenwoods-asset-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Weipinhui](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vipshop) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Altpoint Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Greenwoods Investment — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Inventec Corporation — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Morningside Private Investors invest in?

Morningside Private Investors invests primarily in Internet, E-Commerce and CRM startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Morningside Private Investors last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Morningside Private Investors closed in Mar 2015. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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