Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Business Development industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in North America that have invested in Late stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Business Development industry.
Business Development is all about helping a business to grow. It includes consulting, business processes outsourcing, subscription services, and so on.

Amount of Late funding rounds is 380, which is 13.8% of the total amount of rounds in the Business Development industry in North America over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Business Development industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. VCs are spread equally among California and New York and they host 9 funds each. There are also funds from Massachusetts and District of Columbia. The most common city is New York which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Washington. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and India with the majority investing in The United States. 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 Finance. They also invest in Business Development, Enterprise Software and Consumer.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2015. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2006 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2013 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 29, the maximum is 844. Average number of funding rounds is 357.0 while median is 287.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 234. Average amount of lead investments is 86.5 while median is 58.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 138. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -43.41 and 28.56 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -2.34 and the median is 3.47. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common range is 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 600000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 152262083.85 and median is 1.24. The most common multiplicator value is 0.25.