Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Hospitality 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 over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Hospitality industry.
Hospitality includes lodging, food and drink service, and tourism. It includes hotels and leisure, resorts, and restaurants.

Amount of money raised in Hospitality funding rounds is $36.1B, which is 1.2% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in North America over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Hospitality 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. The most common city is New York which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Menlo Park, San Francisco and Chicago. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from India and Canada. 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 E-Commerce Platforms.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2015. In 1995 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2015 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2015 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12 and 2 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 18, the maximum is 579. Average number of funding rounds is 176.2 while median is 95.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 226. Average amount of lead investments is 47.6 while median is 19.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 27.28 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.72 and the median is 1.94. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Late and Early stages are more common for funds in the sample. Private Equity and Seed stages are less common. Funding rounds with these VCs usually have 6 – 7 or 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.19 at minimum and 448000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 55392500.59 and median is 0.6. The most common multiplicator value is 1.24.