Top 15 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Security industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 15 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Latin America that have invested over the last 4 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 money raised in funding rounds in Latin America is $275.4M, which is 0.2% of the total amount of money raised in the Security industry over the last 4 years.

Top 15 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Security 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 7 funds. There are also funds from Mexico, Chile and Peru. The most common city is Sao Paulo which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from Mexico City, São Paulo and Santiago. VCs in the sample usually invest in The United States and Brazil. They also invest in Mexico and Peru. 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 Real Estate.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2004 and the newest one in 2020. In 2016 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2019 and 2018. 2020 and 2017 were less fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1, the maximum is 863. Average number of funding rounds is 103.7 while median is 41.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 76. Average amount of lead investments is 16.1 while median is 8.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 2.09 and the median is 4.76. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Seed and Early stages are more common for funds in the sample. Venture and Private Equity stages are less common. 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 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 558500000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 39892857.52 and median is 0.29. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.