Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Analytics 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 Seed stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Analytics industry.
Analytics focuses on working with and understanding the data. It includes fields such as risk analysis, big data and data visualization, and predictive analytics.

Amount of Seed funding rounds is 1169, which is 29.0% of the total amount of rounds in the Analytics industry in North America over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Analytics 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. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from Washington, New York and Toronto. 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 Finance. They also invest in Gamification, Enterprise Software and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2017. In 2017 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2020 was the peak for successful exits. 2018, 2017, and 2006 are the runner ups.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 22, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 354.2 while median is 199.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 48.4 while median is 10.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -18.9 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 16.46 and the median is 20.35. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. The most common average round size for these funds is 100 thousands – 1 million. Other common range is less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.01 at minimum and 1.81 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.45 and median is 0.26. The most common multiplicator value is 0.13.