Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of funding rounds in GreenTech 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 Western Europe that have invested over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in GreenTech industry.
GreenTech relates to products or services that improve operational performance while also reducing costs, energy consumption, waste, or negative effects on the environment. It includes recycling and waste management, CleanTech, and environmental engineering.

Amount of money raised in GreenTech funding rounds is $19.3B, which is 4.2% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in Western Europe over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of funding rounds in GreenTech industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – There are a couple of leading countries in the result. They are The United Kingdom, France and The Netherlands. They host 5 VCs each. There is an equal amount of VCs in Paris and London which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from Amsterdam and Zürich. VCs tend to invest in startups from France, but also invest in startups from The United States, The United Kingdom, and Sweden. 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 Industrial, Manufacturing and Banking.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1864 and the newest one in 2017. In 2017 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2011 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2001 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2016 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10, the maximum is 593. Average number of funding rounds is 88.4 while median is 32.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 23. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 222. Average amount of lead investments is 29.0 while median is 9.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -49.53 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -3.36 and the median is -3.39. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Early and Late stages are more common for funds in the sample. Seed and Private Equity stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million or less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 93.54 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 5.84 and median is 0.53. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.