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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 Legal industry. Legal deals with law and provides law-related services. It includes compliance, blockchain, intellectual property, e-signature, and legal tech.

Amount of funding rounds in North America is 354, which is 70.1% of the total amount of Early rounds in the Legal industry over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Legal industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - All VCs are located in The United States. VCs are spread equally among New York and California and they host 9 funds each. There are also funds from Texas and New Hampshire. The most common city is New York which is home to 9 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Menlo Park and Manchester. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama and Brazil. 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 Legal, Gamification and Social.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2018. In 2013 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2020 was the peak for successful exits. 2018, 2017, and 2015 are the runner ups.
  • Investments - Funds equally often participate in 7 - 12 and 2 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 15, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 211.8 while median is 106.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 45.6 while median is 17.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -17.77 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 8.65 and the median is 11.44. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funding rounds with these VCs have 4 - 5 or 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 62421053.02 and median is 0.32. The most common multiplicator value is 0.25.