Top 11 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds over the recent years

Intro

The top 11 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Latin America that have invested in Late stage over the last 3 years.

Amount of money raised in Late funding rounds is $2.2B, which is 43.0% of the total amount of money raised in Latin America over the last 3 years.

Top 11 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Brazil which hosts 8 funds. There are also funds from Mexico, Chile and Argentina. The most common city is São Paulo which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from Sao Paulo, San Pedro and Porto Alegre. VCs in the sample invest in Brazil and The United States more often than they do in Mexico. For the majority of the funds, the country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide.
• Industry Focus – The funds’ most common field for investments is Banking. They also invest in Real Estate, EdTech and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2001 and the newest one in 2013. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. 2019 holds the most deals for 5 VCs. 2020, 2014 and 2018 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 or 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1, the maximum is 56. Average number of funding rounds is 22.1 while median is 19.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 31. Average amount of lead investments is 11.3 while median is 7.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -39.18 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -8.86 and the median is -11.24. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3, 1 – 2 or 6 – 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 10 – 50 million, more often than 100-500 million or 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 2.06 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.5 and median is 0.29. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.