Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed 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 in Seed stage 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 Analytics funding rounds is $4.4B, which is 8.2% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed 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 12 funds. There are also funds from New York, Maryland and Virginia. The most common city is Palo Alto which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from New York, San Francisco and Vienna. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama and Japan. 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Medical Service and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1996 and the newest one in 2018. In 2004 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2021. For some funds, 2014 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2014 was the peak for successful exits. 2020, 2019, and 2018 are the runner ups.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 333.6 while median is 252.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 57.8 while median is 22.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 12.55 and the median is 12.97. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• 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 1 – 5 million and 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.32 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.15 and median is 0.13. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.