Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Retail 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 Late stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Retail industry.
Retail is how producers of goods and services get their products to the consumer. It includes online and offline retail, shopping and vending, and retail technology.

Amount of funding rounds in Retail is 434, which is 4.2% of the total amount of Late rounds in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Retail 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 San Francisco, New York and Menlo Park which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from Boston. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and Canada with the majority investing in 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, Telecommunications and Retail.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2013. 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, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2000 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2016 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12 and 13 – 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 85, the maximum is 831. Average number of funding rounds is 341.6 while median is 250.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 226. Average amount of lead investments is 84.0 while median is 52.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 30. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 27.7 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -0.07 and the median is 0.83. It means that these funds act as lead investors more 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 50 – 100 million or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.13 at minimum and 848950000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 126250833.72 and median is 0.56. The most common multiplicator value is 0.25.