Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Analytics 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 5 years. They are actively investing in Analytics industry.
Analytics focuses on working with and understanding the data. It includes fields such as risk analysis, big data and data visualization, and predictive analytics.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $176.3B, which is 72.8% of the total amount of money raised in the Analytics industry over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Analytics 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 13 funds. There are also funds from New York, Massachusetts and Maryland. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and New York which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Palo Alto and Mountain View. 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 Business Development, Analytics and Marketing.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2015. In 1999 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 2000 and 2019 years. For some funds, 2016 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 24 and 13 – 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 325.2 while median is 209.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 82.9 while median is 43.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 9. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.24 and the median is 3.77. 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. VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 6 – 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million or 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.25 at minimum and 1186000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 231141250.93 and median is 3.06.