Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in North America that have invested in Early stage over the last 5 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 North America is 3533, which is 60.4% of the total amount of Early rounds in the Artificial Intelligence industry over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - All VCs are located in The United States. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 17 funds. There are also funds from New York, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and Palo Alto which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Mountain View and Menlo Park. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama and China. 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, Business Development and Mobile/Apps.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1961 and the newest one in 2017. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2006 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 - 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 61, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 506.4 while median is 405.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 6 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 116.8 while median is 86.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 30. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.38 and 24.14 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.57 and the median is 5.34. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 - 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 - 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 - 50 million or 1 - 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1186000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 219465833.51 and median is 0.4.