Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners
New York, New York, United StatesFounded 2000
Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP) is the alternatives platform within Morgan Stanley Investment Management, founded in April 2000. It provides multi-manager strategies across hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure, investing through primary fund commitments, secondaries, and co-investments.
Average disclosed round size is $42.7M (across 36 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
27
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Series B
Last 12 Mo
0
Team
DW
David Wilton
Managing Director
JW
John Wolak
Managing Director
NB
Nick Buddell
Vice President
RE
Rose Espinal
Associate
AD
Abby Draeger
Investment Analyst
GC
Gary Chan
Head of systematic strategies
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
43 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Sokin | Series B | — | Jan 2025 |
| Sokin | Series B | — | Jul 2024 |
 Octagos Health | Series B | — | Jul 2024 |
 Cloudian | Growth | $23M | Jun 2024 |
 Cover Whale | Series A | $27.5M | May 2024 |
 Vortexa | Series C | — | Jan 2024 |
| Cover Whale | Unknown | $27.5M | Jan 2024 |
 Buyers Edge Platform | Unknown | $560M | Jan 2024 |
 Urban Plates | Growth | $27M | Aug 2023 |
 DataGuard | Series B | $61M | Sep 2022 |
| Vortexa | Series B | $19M | Feb 2021 |
 Elligo Health Research | Series E | $135M | Jan 2021 |
| Vortexa | Series B | $19M | Jan 2021 |
 Tiff's Treats | Series A | $15M | Jul 2020 |
| DataGuard | Series A | $20M | Mar 2020 |
 OpsRamp | Series B | $37.5M | Jan 2020 |
| BBaijia | Series B | $28M | Jan 2020 |
 Van Leeuwen | Series A | $18.7M | Jan 2020 |
| DataGuard | Unknown | $20M | Jan 2020 |
| IInvoca Com | Growth | — | Oct 2019 |
 Arcadia Healthcare Solutions | Growth | $30M | Jan 2019 |
| Vortexa | Series A | — | Jan 2019 |
 Samanage | Series D | $30M | Nov 2018 |
| Cloudian | Series E | $94M | Aug 2018 |
 Instapage | Series A | $15M | Apr 2018 |
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Top Co-Investors
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital23 shared
One Peak4 shared
Hercules Capital, Inc.2 shared
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.2 shared
Noro-Moseley Partners2 shared
Prysm Capital2 shared
Watershed Ventures2 shared
Sapphire Ventures2 shared
Monashees2 shared
Metaplanet2 shared
Notion Capital2 shared
Mosaic Ventures2 shared
The Cigna Group Ventures1 shared
Accel1 shared
Upfront Ventures1 shared
H.I.G. Growth Partners1 shared
Bonfire Ventures1 shared
M/C Partners1 shared
Last updated: 19 September 2026