Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Industrial field 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 North America that have invested in Early stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Industrial field.
Industrial field relates to production of supplies, equipment, and machinery that are used to produce other goods rather than sold directly to consumers. It includes manufacturing, mining, and chemical engineering, as well as animal husbandry and geospatial services.

Amount of Early funding rounds is 1354, which is 30.0% of the total amount of rounds in the Industrial field in North America over the last 4 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 15 funds. There are also funds from New York, Texas and Ohio. There is an equal amount of VCs in Palo Alto and Menlo Park which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from San Francisco and New York. 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 Manufacturing.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1988 and the newest one in 2018. In 2015 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, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2006 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2014 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 and in 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 14, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 397.6 while median is 297.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 4 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 90.6 while median is 44.5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -35.29 and 23.24 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.37 and the median is 6.28. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 5 – 6 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common range is less than 100 thousands. 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 133247500.24 and median is 0.24. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.