Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Business Development 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 2 years. They are actively investing in Business Development industry.
Business Development is all about helping a business to grow. It includes consulting, business processes outsourcing, subscription services, and so on.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $1.5B, which is 53.3% of the total amount of money raised in the Business Development industry in Seed rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Business Development industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. Top VCs are based in California and New York with the majority being in California. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Menlo Park, New York and Palo Alto. 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 Telecommunications, Mobile/Apps and Medical Service.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1969 and the newest one in 2017. In 2004 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.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 24 and 2 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 271.6 while median is 168.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 57.0 while median is 6.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 28.58 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 9.45 and the median is 18.7. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 16000000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 805416666.82 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.