Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Business Development industry over the recent years

Intro

Here are 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 3 years. They are actively investing in the Business Development industry.

Business Development is all about helping a business to grow and prosper. It includes consulting, business processes outsourcing, subscription services, and so on.

Amount of funding rounds in North America is 860, which is more than a half – 58.2%, of the total amount worldwide of Early rounds in the Business Development industry over the last 3 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs currently are located in The United States. To the west of America – California is the most popular state for VCs and it hosts the most out of said 20 funds, 12 to be exact . Some funds are also from New Hampshire, Virginia and New York. There is an equal number of VCs in San Francisco and Menlo Park which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from Santa Monica. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Brazil and Panama. For the majority of the funds,  the country of their most frequent investments and the country of the funds’ establishment coincide.
• Industry Focus – The most common field for funds’ investments is Finance. They also invest in Business Development, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
•  Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1961 and the newest one in 2015. 2015 also is the year the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest number of successful exits happened between 2006 and 2020 years. 2014 became the year with the most successful exits for some of the funds.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes between 13 and 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 61, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 504 while median is 426.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is only 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 109.7, and the median is 69. The most common amount of lead investments throughout funds is 138. For funds in the sample index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 28.56. The average value for this difference is 5.84 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 50 – 100 million or 10 – 50 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 217418333.49 and median is 0.33. The most common multiplicator value is 0.12.