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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 5 years. They are actively investing in Human Resources industry. Human Resources provide a range of workforce solutions for managing employee life cycle and administering employee benefits. It includes everything recruiting and retirement, employment, and skill assessment.

Amount of funding rounds in Human Resources is 1127, which is 4.2% of the total amount of Seed rounds in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Human Resources industry over the recent years
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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 10 funds. There are also funds from Palo Alto, 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 Business Development, Gamification and Medical Service.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 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 2015 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2014 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 40, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 375.0 while median is 233.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 44.4 while median is 8.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -3.39 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 21.17 and the median is 24.48. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funding rounds with these VCs have 5 - 6 or 4 - 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100 thousands - 1 million. Less 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 0.43 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.22 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.17.