Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Information 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 North America that have invested in Early stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Information Services industry.
Information services create, manage, and deliver information. It includes cloud computing, systems and information management, and IT consulting and outsourcing.

Amount of funding rounds in North America is 511, which is 65.4% of the total amount of Early rounds in the Information Services industry over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Information Services industry 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, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Menlo Park which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from New York. Top-1 investment geofocus for all VCs is 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, Autonomous Vehicles and E-Commerce Platforms.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1961 and the newest one in 2015. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2013 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 34, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 379.6 while median is 342.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 8 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 83.4 while median is 56.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 11. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 26.1 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.53 and the median is 2.19. 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 3 – 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common range is 50 – 100 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 149168333.55 and median is 0.31. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.