Top 20 investors in Latin America that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Financial Services industry over the recent years

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 Financial Services industry.
Financial services are provided to people and companies. It includes accounting, audit, and tax services, as well as asset management, investment and financing advisory, and brokerage.

Amount of funding rounds in Latin America is 127, which is 3.3% of the total amount of Seed rounds in the Financial Services industry over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Latin America that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Financial Services industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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 Argentina. The most common city is Sao Paulo which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Santiago, Mexico City and San Nicolás de los Garza. VCs tend to invest in startups from Brazil, but also invest in startups from Mexico, Argentina, and 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, Enterprise Software and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2005 and the newest one in 2020. In 2011 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2014 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2015 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5, the maximum is 863. Average number of funding rounds is 115.4 while median is 73.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 84. Average amount of lead investments is 17.8 while median is 9.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -66.95 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.27 and the median is 10.67. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs have 1 – 2 or 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 1 – 5 million or 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 467.4 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 30.3 and median is 0.39. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.