Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Gamification 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 2 years. They are actively investing in Gamification industry.

Amount of money raised in Gamification funding rounds is $4.0B, which is 28.2% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in North America over the last 2 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 15 funds. There are also funds from New York, Massachusetts and District of Columbia. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from New York, Menlo Park and San Mateo. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama and Japan. 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, Business Development and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1982 and the newest one in 2017. In 2004 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2008 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24, 7 – 12 or in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 20, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 184.8 while median is 120.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 34. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 72.0 while median is 29.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -35.0 and 27.47 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 0.09 and the median is 1.42. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 4 – 5 investors more often than in rounds with 5 – 6 or 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100 thousands – 1 million, 10 – 50 million or 1 – 5 million more often than less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.43 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.22 and median is 0.21. The most common multiplicator value is 0.21.