Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence 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 in North America that have invested in Seed stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Artificial Intelligence industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $1.8B, which is 58.3% of the total amount of money raised in the Artificial Intelligence industry in Seed rounds over the last 3 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in The United States while others are in Canada. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and Menlo Park which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from Palo Alto and Mountain View. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, The United Kingdom, 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Enterprise Software and Security.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1961 and the newest one in 2020. In 2005 the most amount of funds were founded. 2019 holds the most deals for 9 VCs. 2020, 2018 and 2014 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 13 – 24 and in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24 and in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 214.0 while median is 138.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 87.6 while median is 32.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.38 and 27.57 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -1.29 and the median is -4.7. 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 4 – 5, 2 – 3 or 1 – 2 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100 thousands – 1 million. Less common ranges are less than 100 thousands, 10 – 50 million and 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.88 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.28 and median is 0.23. The most common multiplicator value is 0.2.