Top 15 investors with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Insurance industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 15 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors that have invested in Private Equity stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Insurance industry.

Amount of money raised in Insurance funding rounds is $5.0B, which is 3.3% of the total amount of money raised in Private Equity rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 15 investors with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Insurance industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common region for top VCs is North America which hosts 9 funds. There are also funds from Western Europe, South Asia, and North Africa and the Middle East. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 7 funds. There are also funds from The United Kingdom, Canada and Qatar. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom, India, and Poland. 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 Banking. They also invest in Social, Real Estate and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1956 and the newest one in 2017. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. 2020 holds the most deals for 7 VCs. 2019, 2015 and 2018 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 or in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 112. Average number of funding rounds is 54.0 while median is 53.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 75. Average amount of lead investments is 31.4 while median is 31.0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -53.98 and 10.2 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -25.94 and the median is -21.0. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is -21.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 2 – 3 or 1 – 2 investors more often than in rounds with 3 – 4 or 6 – 7 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 50 – 100 million, 100-500 million and 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.05 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.29 and median is 0.16. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.