Top 20 investors that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Security 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 that have invested in Late stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Security industry.
Security provides manned and technical services and products for the protection of people, premises or property. It includes penetration testing and intrusion detection, cloud and cyber security, and homeland security, as well as privacy, biometrics, and fraud detection.

Amount of Late funding rounds is 705, which is 20.6% of the total amount of rounds in the Security industry over the last 3 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The funds are based in 2 regions: North America and Western Europe with the majority being in North America. The majority of VCs are located in The United States while others are in Germany. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York and Menlo Park which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from San Francisco and Palo Alto. Top-1 investment geofocus for all VCs is 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 Gamification, Enterprise Software and Analytics.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1961 and the newest one in 2016. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2006 and 2019 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 13 – 24 and 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 31, the maximum is 831. Average number of funding rounds is 295.6 while median is 254.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 407. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 8 and maximum is 162. Average amount of lead investments is 73.2 while median is 56.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 138. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 18.76 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -1.45 and the median is 0.43. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 50 – 100 million and 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.16 at minimum and 848950000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 207697917.16 and median is 1.37. The most common multiplicator value is 0.34.