MSDL vs VANI Comparison

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund is a fund whose investment objective is to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns via current income and to a lesser extent, capital appreciation by investing predominantly in directly originated senior secured term loans issued by U.S. middle-market companies backed by private equity sponsors. It invests predominantly in directly originated senior secured term loans including first lien senior secured term loans including unitranche loans and second lien senior secured term loans, with the balance of the investments expected to be in higher-yielding assets such as mezzanine debt, unsecured debt, equity investments and other opportunistic asset purchases.

Vivani Medical Inc is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The company develops miniaturized, subdermal implants utilizing its proprietary NanoPortal technology to enable long-term, near-constant-rate delivery of a broad range of medicines to treat chronic diseases. It has two reporting segments, the Biopharm Division and the Neuromodulation Division. The Biopharm Division includes activities from NPM and Vivani Medical Australia Pty Ltd, and the Neurostimulation Division includes activities from Cortigent and its subsidiary in Switzerland.