Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Virtual Currency 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 over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Virtual Currency industry.
Virtual currency is an electronic representation of value and can be traded or used as payment. It includes cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and etherium.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $36.8B, which is 80.8% of the total amount of money raised in the Virtual Currency industry over the last 2 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. The majority of VCs are based in Silicon Valley. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 11 funds. There are also funds from New York and Texas. The most common city is New York which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Menlo Park and San Mateo. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from China 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 Legal, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1972 and the newest one in 2018. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2019 was the peak for successful exits. 2020, 2018, and 2015 are the runner ups.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12 and 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 29, the maximum is 1394. Average number of funding rounds is 328.2 while median is 138.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 60.0 while median is 25.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 16. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.94 and the median is 5.06. It means that these funds act as lead investors more 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. Funding rounds with these VCs have 6 – 7 or 4 – 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is more than 1 billion. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.08 at minimum and 20.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 4.49 and median is 2.51. The most common multiplicator value is 0.47.