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 Late stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Artificial Intelligence industry. Artificial intelligence is a frontier research discipline to build computerized systems that perform tasks requiring human intelligence. It includes facial, speech and image recognition, machine learning, and natural language processing, as well as computer vision, visual search, and internet of things.

Amount of Late funding rounds is 938, which is 14.4% of the total amount of rounds in the Artificial Intelligence industry in North America over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence 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 12 funds. There are also funds from New York, Massachusetts and Washington. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco, Palo Alto and New York which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Mountain View. 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 Business Development, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2014. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2007 and 2019 years. For some funds, 2013 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 7 - 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 - 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 52, the maximum is 844. Average number of funding rounds is 355.3 while median is 287.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 9 and maximum is 234. Average amount of lead investments is 89.3 while median is 60.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 27. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 19.57 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -2.01 and the median is -0.84. 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 6 - 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million or 10 - 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.2 at minimum and 872000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 279934583.87 and median is 136750002.0.