Top 20 investors in Family & Home Services industry

Intro

Family and Home Service industry helps people with care (helping with children or elderly etc.) and non-care (cooking, cleaning etc.) activities. Home services are highly demanded. Nowadays people have less time than ever. But they need these services constantly. Maintaining on the house is very important for homeowners both financially and psychologically. The ability to book any service online has increased so it is very easy to find information on service providers. Even in hard pandemic times, it is important to move forward. That’s why investors want to find “the silver lining” in any situation and do the best to achieve prosperity. Home services don’t need to rely on tangible goods. They are well positioned not only to survive during economic crisis, but even to come out on top. The biggest investor in Family and Home Service industry is Qiming Venture Partners which was founded in China in 2006. But only in 2017 they launched its first US-based fund, focused on early-stage healthcare opportunities in the United States and Europe. They invest in highly effective platforms and products which respond significant unsatisfied medical needs. In this article top 20 investors are mentioned (according to the total amount of funding rounds). These are VC funds and corporate investors that have invested in Late stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Family & Home Services industry. Amount of funding rounds in Family & Home Services is 198, which is 5.7% of the total amount of Late rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in Family & Home Services industry
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography - The most common region for top VCs is North America (hosts 14 funds). Accordingly, the USA is the most common country among top VCs (hosts 13 funds). For example, San Francisco and New York host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Eastern Asia, Western Europe, North Africa, China, The United Kingdom, Zug, Toronto, Switzerland and the Middle East. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and China with the majority investing in The United States. For 6 funds in the sample, 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. Although, they also invest in Telecommunications, Social and Business Development.
• Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1937 and the newest one in 2017. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2008 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments - Usually VCs take part in 7 - 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 - 6, 13 - 24 or even in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8, the maximum is 285. Average number of funding rounds is 105.4 while median is 95.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 203. Average amount of lead investments is 52.2 while median is 34.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 19. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -45.19 and 14.71 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -4.86 and the median is -2.75. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 6 - 7, 4 - 5 or 2 - 3 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 - 50 million. Less common ranges are less than 100 thousands, 100-500 million and 50 - 100 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 0.31 and median is 0.21. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.