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 over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Art (Auctions) industry.

Amount of funding rounds in North America is 227, which is 51.9% of the total amount of rounds in the Art (Auctions) industry over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most funding rounds in Art (Auctions) industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - All VCs are located in The United States. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 9 funds. There are also funds from New York, Texas and South Carolina. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York and San Francisco which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Austin and Menlo Park. 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 Business Development, Information Technology and Real Estate.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2017. In 2015 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, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 7 - 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 - 6, 13 - 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 185.4 while median is 88.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 75.2 while median is 30.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 28.05 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -0.98 and the median is -3.17. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Early and Seed stages are more common for funds in the sample. Late and Private Equity stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 - 3, 1 - 2 or 4 - 5 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100 thousands - 1 million, 10 - 50 million or less than 100 thousands more often than 1 - 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.81 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.4 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.