Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Manufacturing 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 5 years. They are actively investing in Manufacturing industry.

Amount of Early funding rounds is 406, which is 27.1% of the total amount of rounds in the Manufacturing industry in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Manufacturing 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 13 funds. There are also funds from New York, Washington and Texas. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and Palo Alto which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Menlo Park 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 Banking. They also invest in Manufacturing, Business Development and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1987 and the newest one in 2018. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2012 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12, 13 – 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 6, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 165.8 while median is 71.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 23. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 73.0 while median is 27.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 16. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -42.43 and 21.59 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -8.7 and the median is -5.87. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4, 2 – 3 or 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 10 – 50 million, more often than 1 – 5 million or 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.42 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.34 and median is 0.16. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.