Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Open Source 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 Open Source industry.

Amount of Early funding rounds is 83, which is 37.4% of the total amount of rounds in the Open Source 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 Open Source industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in The United States while others are in Canada. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York and Menlo Park which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from San Francisco and Portola Valley. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama and Canada. 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 Enterprise Software, Manufacturing and Information Technology.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1987 and the newest one in 2019. In 2007 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2008 to 2020. For some funds, 2016 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 and in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24 and in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 11, the maximum is 347. Average number of funding rounds is 119.5 while median is 87.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 11. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 205. Average amount of lead investments is 57.3 while median is 19.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 12. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -33.5 and 26.44 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -2.3 and the median is 0.88. 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 5 – 6, 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 – 50 million or 5 – 10 million, more often than 1 – 5 million or less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.04 at minimum and 1.04 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.32 and median is 0.22. The most common multiplicator value is 0.21.