Investment Summary

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital Invest In Decisiv

On January 10, 2019, asset manager Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors and growth capital firm Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital invested in software company Decisiv

Investment Highlights
  • This is Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ 11th and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital’s 6th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ 144th and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital’s 25th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ 1st and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital’s 2nd transaction in Virginia.

Investment Summary
Date 2019-01-10
Target Decisiv
Sector Software
Investor(s) Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors
Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Decisiv

Reston, Virginia, United States
Decisiv is the provider of the largest asset service management ecosystem for the commercial vehicle industry. Through Decisiv’s SRM platform, different customers and participants in the service event are able to track service requests, receive updates, understand delays, route vehicles more efficienty to repair shops, and provide estimates of costs and warranty coverage associated with the repair. Decisiv was founded in 2001 and is based in Reston, Virginia.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors

Los Angeles, California, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Asset Manager
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 36.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors is an alternative investment management firm focused on hedge funds, public funds, energy private equity, growth private equity, real estate private equity, and mezzanine finance opportunities. Kayne's energy private equity group focuses on $20 to $100 million investments in high-growth exploration and production, midstream and oilfield service companies. The energy group considers both majority or minority stakes in public and private businesses. Kayne's growth private equity practice involves structured investments in public and private companies looking for capital to finance expansion. This group will also consider middle-market leveraged transactions and management buyouts. Kayne's real estate private equity group invests in established, cash-flow generating projects. Areas of interest include student housing and campus-oriented retail properties, amongst other opportunistic investments. The Group looks for acquisitions of $25 to $100 million. Kayne's mezzanine team looks to provide $20 to $35 million of capital for mid-market businesses with $100 to $500 million of sales and $10 to $50 million of EBITDA. Kayne Capital Advisors was formed in 1984 and is based in Los Angeles with additional offices in Armonk, New York; New York City, and Houston.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 159 of 177
Sector (Software) 11 of 12
Type (Growth Capital) 42 of 51
State (Virginia) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 144 of 160
Year (2019) 3 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-01-01 CreatorIQ

West Hollywood, California, United States

CreatorIQ provides software to unify and power advanced influencer marketing for innovative enterprises. Its Intelligence Cloud facilitates data science-enabled creator discovery, streamlines workflow, ensures brand safety, and drives meaningful measurement. AB InBev, Airbnb, Calvin Klein, CVS, Disney, H&M, Sephora, and Unilever are just some of the brands that utilize CreatorIQ’s platform to drive real business results across their influencer marketing ecosystems. CreatorIQ was founded in 2013 and is based in West Hollywood, California.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-03-13 Ideas United

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Ideas United is a content creation agency that leverages a crowd-sourced filmmaker network to serve top-tier brands in both branded and original content. Ideas United helps solve the shortage of diverse video content that exists today by leveraging a mix of internal resources and crowd-sourced creators for brands, media companies, and non-profits. Ideas United was founded in 2001 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Investor

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Growth Capital Firm
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital is a division of Morgan Stanley that looks to make growth equity and credit investments in expanding companies operating in the healthcare, digital media, e-commerce, consumer and business services sectors. The unit will consider opportunities throughout North America and Western Europe and primarily targets companies with established products/services looking to scale. Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital is headquartered in New York City.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 29 of 48
Sector (Software) 6 of 13
Type (Growth Capital) 14 of 21
State (Virginia) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 25 of 40
Year (2019) 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-01-01 Chairish

San Francisco, California, United States

Chairish is an online destination for chic and unique home furnishings. Chairish was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-01-01 Lightbend

San Francisco, California, United States

Lightbend provides an opensource platform for building reactive applications for the JVM, consisting of the play framework, akka middleware and Sscala programming language, 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. Lightbend was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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