Top 9 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Analytics industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 9 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Latin America that have invested in Early 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 Early funding rounds is $205.5M, which is 22.9% of the total amount of money raised in the Analytics industry in Latin America over the last 5 years.

Top 9 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Analytics 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 6 funds. There are also funds from Mexico, Chile and Argentina. There is an equal amount of VCs in São Paulo and Sao Paulo which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Santiago and Mexico City. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: Brazil and The United States with the majority investing in Brazil. 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, Mobile/Apps and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2001 and the newest one in 2016. In 2005 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2016 to 2021. 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 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 148. Average number of funding rounds is 50.9 while median is 27.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 50. Average amount of lead investments is 13.2 while median is 7.0. 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 -5.19 and the median is -9.46. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 100-500 million. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 0.88, 0.27 and 0.08 are less common.