Top 20 investors that took part in the most funding rounds in IT Infrastructure 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 over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in IT Infrastructure industry.
IT infrastructure refers to the software, hardware, network resources, and services associated with the management information technology environment. It includes technical support, data center, and IaaS.

Amount of funding rounds in IT Infrastructure is 2576, which is 2.0% of the total amount of rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors that took part in the most funding rounds in IT Infrastructure 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 The United Kingdom. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and Menlo Park which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from Palo Alto and New York. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and Panama 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 Gamification, Business Development and Medical Service.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2016. In 2012 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2006 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2018 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 71, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 478.0 while median is 414.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 107.0 while median is 65.5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -14.62 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 7.26 and the median is 7.57. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – The most common investment stage for funds in the sample is Early stage. Seed, Late and Debt stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 – 50 million or 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1186000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 221099000.16 and median is 0.62. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.