Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Fashion industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors that have invested in Seed stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Fashion industry.

Amount of money raised in Fashion funding rounds is $374.8M, which is 1.0% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Fashion industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common region for top VCs is North America which hosts 13 funds. There are also funds from Western Europe and Eastern Asia. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 13 funds. There are also funds from The United Kingdom, Luxembourg and Japan. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and London which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from New York and Columbus. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom, Panama, and Japan. 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 Manufacturing, Consumer and Information Technology.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1998 and the newest one in 2019. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12, 2 – 6, and 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 14, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 163.0 while median is 81.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 36. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 54.8 while median is 22.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -29.14 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.51 and the median is 0.23. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3, 4 – 5 or 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100 thousands – 1 million, less than 100 thousands, 10 – 50 million or 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.53 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.2 and median is 0.18. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.