Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Latin America that have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Artificial Intelligence industry. Artificial intelligence is a frontier research discipline to build computerized systems that perform tasks requiring human intelligence. It includes facial, speech and image recognition, machine learning, and natural language processing, as well as computer vision, visual search, and internet of things.

Amount of funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence is 90, which is 10.8% of the total amount of Seed rounds in Latin America over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Latin America that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among top VCs is Brazil which hosts 10 funds. There are also funds from Mexico, Chile and Peru. The most common city is Sao Paulo which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Mexico City, Santiago and São Paulo. VCs tend to invest in startups from Brazil, but also invest in startups from The United States, Mexico, and Peru. 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, Autonomous Vehicles and EdTech.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2001 and the newest one in 2019. In 2014 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2012 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2011 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2021 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 - 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 863. Average number of funding rounds is 85.6 while median is 25.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 76. Average amount of lead investments is 11.0 while median is 5.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -26.56 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 10.64 and the median is 20.08. 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 2 - 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 1 - 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 34.2 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 2.58 and median is 0.14. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.