Top 20 investors in Latin America that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Transportation 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 Latin America that have invested in Seed stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Transportation industry.
Transportation is about moving people and goods. It includes all modes of transportation, electric and autonomous vehicles, and transportation infrastructure, as well as space travel.

Amount of Seed funding rounds is 59, which is 57.8% of the total amount of rounds in the Transportation industry in Latin America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Latin America that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Transportation industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Brazil which hosts 9 funds. There are also funds from Mexico, Chile and Peru. There is an equal amount of VCs in Sao Paulo and Mexico City which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Santiago and São Paulo. VCs tend to invest in startups from Brazil, but also invest in startups from The United States, Mexico, and Argentina. 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 Enterprise Software, EdTech and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2004 and the newest one in 2019. In 2010 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2012 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 863. Average number of funding rounds is 102.0 while median is 48.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 76. Average amount of lead investments is 14.2 while median is 3.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -66.95 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 12.15 and the median is 22.52. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.56 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.42 and median is 0.31. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.