Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Financial Services 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 North America that have invested in Early stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Financial Services industry.
Financial services are provided to people and companies. It includes accounting, audit, and tax services, as well as asset management, investment and financing advisory, and brokerage.

Amount of Early funding rounds is 1224, which is 32.4% of the total amount of rounds in the Financial Services industry in North America over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Financial Services industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. Half of VCs are based in Silicon Valley. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 12 funds. There are also funds from New York, Virginia and New Hampshire. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York and Menlo Park which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from San Francisco and Santa Monica. Top-1 investment geofocus for all VCs is 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 Enterprise Software, Business Development and Banking.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2019. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2004 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2020 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 51, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 542.2 while median is 532.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 503. Average amount of lead investments is 106.8 while median is 36.0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -17.77 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 6.35 and the median is 4.11. 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 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.04 at minimum and 14.53 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 4.37 and median is 4.31. The most common multiplicator value is 4.93.