Top 7 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Education industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 7 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 2 years. They are actively investing in Education industry.
Education provides instruction and training on a wide variety of subjects. It includes primary, higher and secondary education, language learning, and edutainment, as well as EdTech and educational and training services.

Amount of money raised in Education funding rounds is $96.3M, which is 2.6% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in Latin America over the last 2 years.

Top 7 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Education 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 3 funds. There are also funds from Mexico, Guatemala and Chile. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Mexico, but also invest in startups from The United States and 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 Business Development, Social and Retail.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2007 and the newest one in 2016. In 2016 the most amount of funds were founded.
• 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 5, the maximum is 103. Average number of funding rounds is 60.0 while median is 61.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 50. Average amount of lead investments is 15.0 while median is 12.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -26.34 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 9.35 and the median is 10.67. 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 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 50 – 100 million. Less common range is less than 100 thousands. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 2.23, 0.95 and 0.22 are less common.