Top 20 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Education industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Latin America that have invested over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Education industry.
Education provides instruction and training on a wide variety of subjects. It includes primary, higher and secondary education, language learning, and edutainment, as well as EdTech and educational and training services.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Latin America is $231.6M, which is 0.3% of the total amount of money raised in the Education industry over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Education industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common countries among top VCs are Brazil and Mexico. They host 8 VCs each. There are also funds from Peru and Chile. There is an equal amount of VCs in Sao Paulo and Mexico City which host 7 funds each. There are also funds from Santiago and Lima. VCs in the sample usually invest in Brazil and Mexico. They also invest in The United States 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, Enterprise Software and EdTech.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2000 and the newest one in 2016. In 2012 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2015 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2011 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 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1, the maximum is 148. Average number of funding rounds is 51.0 while median is 36.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 50. Average amount of lead investments is 9.8 while median is 6.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.06 and the median is 7.05. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Early and Seed stages are more common for funds in the sample. Venture and Late stages are less common. Funding rounds with these VCs have 5 – 6 or 3 – 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 5.22 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 1.06 and median is 0.26. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.