Top 12 investors in North America that took part in the most Private Equity funding rounds in Legal industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 12 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in North America that have invested in Private Equity stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Legal industry.
Legal deals with law and provides law-related services. It includes compliance, blockchain, intellectual property, e-signature, and legal tech.

Amount of funding rounds in North America is 12, which is 63.2% of the total amount of Private Equity rounds in the Legal industry over the last 3 years.

Top 12 investors in North America that took part in the most Private Equity funding rounds in Legal industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in The United States while others are in Canada. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and Canada with the majority investing in 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 Gamification, Telecommunications and IT Infrastructure.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1919 and the newest one in 2012. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2020 and 2019. 2018 and 2013 were less fruitful.
• 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 138. Average number of funding rounds is 49.2 while median is 35.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 45. Average amount of lead investments is 11.6 while median is 8.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -38.74 and 27.61 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 0.7 and the median is 0.03. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 812000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 85725000.36 and median is 0.23. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.