Top 8 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Sharing Economy industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 8 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Latin America that have invested over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Sharing Economy industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Latin America is $246.3M, which is 1.3% of the total amount of money raised in the Sharing Economy industry over the last 3 years.

Top 8 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Sharing Economy industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located either in Mexico or Brazil. There are also funds from Chile. There is an equal amount of VCs in São Paulo and Mexico City which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Santiago. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Brazil and Mexico. For half 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 Enterprise Software, Transportation and Social.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2005 and the newest one in 2016. In 2010 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2012 to 2020. For some funds, 2014 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24, 2 or in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 790. Average number of funding rounds is 125.5 while median is 35.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 76. Average amount of lead investments is 17.2 while median is 7.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -11.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 9.33 and the median is 11.39. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – The most common investment stage for funds in the sample is Seed stage. Early, Venture and Private Equity stages are less common. Funds usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 investors, less often in rounds with 3 – 4 or 1 – 2 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 million, more often than 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 0.96 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.36 and median is 0.33. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.