MSD Aqua Partners

MSD Partners, L.P. is an employee-owned hedge fund based in New York City, founded in July 2009. The firm specializes in managing pooled investment vehicles and focuses on investing in the debt and equity of public and private companies, real estate, and various other asset classes globally. Primarily targeting mid-cap and large-cap value stocks, MSD Partners employs fundamental analysis and conducts in-house research to inform its investment decisions. In addition to its core investment strategies, MSD Partners also manages MSD Aqua Partners, a buyout fund that further diversifies its investment portfolio. The firm operates as a subsidiary of MSD Capital, L.P.

19 past transactions

Verkada

Series D in 2022
Verkada Inc. develops and offers a cloud-based video management software that enables users to manage physical security. Its Command platform enables users to access, share, and archive footage across locations. The company also offers security cameras for security services. Its products include Dome; Mini; Fisheye; and Viewing Station series. It serves Healthcare, banks, education, retail, restaurants, government, and private business sectors. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California. It has an additional location in London, United Kingdom.

Guesty

Series E in 2022
The Guesty platform provides property managers and management companies with an end-to-end solution to simplify the complex operational needs of short-term rentals. With Guesty, users across the globe can seamlessly manage listings from multiple online travel agencies including Airbnb, Booking.com, Agoda and more, by utilizing the company’s advanced tools which include: Channel Manager, Unified Inbox, Multi-Calendar, Mobile Management App, Automation Tools, 24/7 Guest Communication Services, Payment Processing, Owners Portal and more.

Flexport

Series E in 2022
Flexport, Inc. is a global freight forwarder and logistics platform that provides online customs brokerage and freight forwarding services. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a comprehensive online dashboard that enables businesses to understand, purchase, manage, and track the necessary services for global trade. Its offerings include customs brokerage services such as clearances, bonds, product classification, and government agency filings, alongside freight forwarding options encompassing ocean freight, air freight, and trucking. Additionally, Flexport provides supply chain services that cover cargo insurance, quality inspections, warehousing, product sourcing, and trade finance. By leveraging modern software, Flexport aims to enhance the user experience in global trade, helping logistics companies optimize transportation routes and manage inventory effectively.

6Sense

Series E in 2022
6sense Insights Inc. is a predictive intelligence platform that aids B2B marketing and sales leaders in identifying potential prospects and understanding market dynamics through data-driven insights. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Texas and India, 6sense integrates various sources of time-sensitive activity, static data, and external information to offer a unified account engagement platform. This platform leverages artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning to provide revenue teams with deep insights into buyer behavior, allowing them to prioritize accounts, engage resistant buying teams, and implement personalized multi-channel campaigns. By uncovering anonymous demand and optimizing data fragmentation, 6sense enables its users to predictably grow revenue and improve sales conversions.

iCapital Network

Venture Round in 2021
iCapital Network is an online platform that unlatches the world of private equity, enabling institutions and qualified investors. It is a financial services company that features a financial technology platform that provides modular alternative investment solutions for registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, private banks, family offices, and other sophisticated investors. The company connects advisors and their high net worth investors in leading alternative investment managers through best-in-class user experience. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Rhombus Systems

Series A in 2021
Rhombus Systems, Inc. is a provider of advanced video security services, specializing in cloud-managed solutions for enterprises. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sacramento, California, with an additional office in Oakland, the company offers a range of services including Wi-Fi enabled cameras, live feed management, and artificial intelligence features such as facial and object recognition. Rhombus Systems also provides capabilities for video streaming, people analytics, and security alerts, allowing customers to easily share video clips and live streams of events without the need for complex servers or network video recorders.

West Monroe

Venture Round in 2021
West Monroe is a full-service business and technology consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois, established in 2002. The firm specializes in guiding organizations through transformative projects, offering services in advanced analytics, customer experience, mergers and acquisitions, operational excellence, and performance improvement. With over 350 consulting professionals, West Monroe delivers tailored solutions across various industries, including consumer products, energy, financial services, healthcare, and private equity. The firm is adept at addressing critical areas such as customer predictive analytics, digital strategy, workforce optimization, and change management. By leveraging its collective expertise, West Monroe aims to enhance growth and efficiency for both large enterprises and mid-market organizations, ensuring better business outcomes for its clients.

IonQ

Post in 2021
IonQ, Inc. specializes in the development of general-purpose quantum information computers, utilizing a unique trapped ion approach. The company's technology combines high physical performance, perfect qubit replication, and optical networkability, enabling the creation of scalable quantum computers that surpass the limitations of classical computing. These advancements leverage phenomena such as superposition and entanglement, which are critical at the atomic scale. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ aims to support a wide range of applications across various industries with its powerful and versatile quantum computing solutions.

Gopuff

Series H in 2021
goPuff is a Philadelphia-based startup that delivers products like over-the-counter medicine, baby food, and alcohol. goPuff was founded in 2013 by Yakir Gola and Rafael Ilishayev, two Drexel University students with a minivan and a vision to make everyday life a little easier. What started as a snack delivery service quickly grew into a national essential, and food delivery service, and later, in some markets, alcohol delivery. Today, goPuff is the fastest growing delivery service, operating 24/7 in most major markets. goPuff makes sure its customers have everything they need: from quick meals, over-the-counter meds, snacks and drinks to electronics, office supplies, baby and pet essentials, and in some markets, beer, wine, and spirits. Across America, goPuff is known for satiating late-night cravings for Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, Doritos, Red Bull, and, in select markets, White Claw and rescuing those in need of diapers, condoms, and cleaning products. goPuff allows users the joy of browsing the shelves without the hassle of going to the store. It takes seconds to navigate the app and minutes for goPuff’s Driver-Partners to deliver the customer’s needs and wants. goPuff’s strategically located facilities cut out the middleman allowing for a flat fee of $1.95. goPuff’s success has allowed the company to support important causes. In March 2020 goPuff committed to $1 million in orders to hospital workers fighting COVID-19. In May 2020 the company wrote a check for $1 million to match donations to Boys and Girls Clubs. In June 2020 goPuff committed to supporting underrepresented founders in Philadelphia.

iCapital Network

Series C in 2021
iCapital Network is an online platform that unlatches the world of private equity, enabling institutions and qualified investors. It is a financial services company that features a financial technology platform that provides modular alternative investment solutions for registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, private banks, family offices, and other sophisticated investors. The company connects advisors and their high net worth investors in leading alternative investment managers through best-in-class user experience. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Woolpert

Private Equity Round in 2021
Established in 1911, Woolpert is a design, geospatial and infrastructure management firm that integrates services and applies technologies to benefit its federal, local/state and private sector clients. Woolpert is proud to provide services that impact projects above, on, and beneath the Earth’s surface. With more than 650 professional and technical personnel in more than 20 offices nationwide, we are widely recognized as one of the nation’s largest, leading design, geospatial, and infrastructure firms and are consistently ranked among the top 100 design firms by Engineering News-Record.

GoodLeap

Secondary Market in 2021
Loanpal, LLC provides financing for clean energy home improvement projects. The company finances the full scope of a clean energy project, such as the installation of new roof, support new solar panels, and home improvements. Additionally, it offers home purchasing loans and refinancing services. The company was formerly known as Paramount Equity Mortgage, LLC and changed its name to Loanpal, LLC in November 2019. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Roseville, California. Loanpal, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Paramount GR Holding, LLC.

Finch Therapeutics

Series D in 2020
Finch Therapeutics is a mission-driven microbiome engineering company, is developing novel microbial therapies to serve patients with serious and unmet medical needs. The company uses machine learning algorithms to reverse engineer successful fecal transplantations and other clinical datasets, identifying the microbes that drive responses in patients. This human-centric discovery model leverages clinical data to focus on in-vitro and in-vivo efforts on cocktails of microbes that have already demonstrated safety and efficacy in humans. This enables early retirement of translational risk and avoids the challenges of extrapolating host-specific effects from animal models. Finch Therapeutics was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.

BioTheryx

Series D in 2020
BioTheryX, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company based in Chappaqua, New York, that specializes in the development of therapies for hematological malignancies and other diseases. The company focuses on restoring protein homeostasis through innovative approaches such as Protein Homeostatic Modulators, which are small molecular glue cereblon binders with significant therapeutic potential. Additionally, BioTheryX is advancing targeted protein degradation technologies, including PROTACs, which utilize dual ligands to facilitate the degradation of specific proteins. The company also offers BTX-A51, an oral small molecule that acts as a multi-kinase inhibitor to target leukemic stem cells and suppress key oncogenic gene transcription. Founded in 2007, BioTheryX aims to expedite the delivery of effective therapies to patients with unmet medical needs by leveraging enhanced biology-driven models and clinically proven translational approaches.

EXUMA Biotech

Series B in 2020
EXUMA Biotech is a clinical-stage biotechnology company discovering and developing Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T cell products for solid tumors. They develop new tools for the patient’s immune system to fight various solid tumor malignancies, such as renal cell carcinoma, soft tissue sarcoma, gastric cancer, and others. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Grand Cayman, Midland.

Endries International

Acquisition in 2018
Endries International Inc. distributes fasteners and related production components to original equipment manufacturers. It offers abrasives, chemicals, electrical supplies, fasteners/hardware, fluid power products/hydraulics and pneumatics, industrial supplies, mechanical components, non-metallic components, janitorial supplies, packaging and shipping supplies, and safety supplies, as well as pipes, valves, and fittings.

Ring Container Technologies

Acquisition in 2017
Ring Container Technologies Group, LLC manufactures packaging containers, including high-density polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate containers. The company is based in Oakland, Tennessee.

Synthetic Biologics

Post in 2017
Synthetic Biologics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing therapeutics aimed at gastrointestinal diseases. Its leading product candidates include SYN-004, designed to protect the gut microbiome from the adverse effects of commonly used intravenous beta-lactam antibiotics, thereby preventing clostridium difficile infection, antibiotic-associated diarrhea, and the emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms. SYN-010 is in advanced clinical trials and targets the underlying causes of irritable bowel syndrome with constipation by addressing methane-producing organisms in the gut. Additionally, the company is developing SYN-020, an early-stage oral formulation intended to treat both local gastrointestinal and systemic diseases. Other clinical-stage products include SYN-006 and SYN-007 for preventing clostridium difficile infection and SYN-005 for pertussis treatment. Synthetic Biologics collaborates with various institutions, including Intrexon Corporation and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and has an agreement with Washington University School of Medicine to conduct clinical trials. The company is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.
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