Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Analytics industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in North America that have invested in Early 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 money raised in Analytics funding rounds is $31.6B, which is 7.0% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in North America over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early 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 majority of VCs are based in Silicon Valley. There is an equal amount of VCs in Menlo Park and New York which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from San Francisco and Palo Alto. 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, Enterprise Software and Mobile/Apps.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2019. 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 2004 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
• 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 72, the maximum is 1394. Average number of funding rounds is 605.3 while median is 644.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 109. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 19 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 112.4 while median is 104.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 59. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -46.22 and 16.75 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -10.86 and the median is -12.27. 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 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.08 at minimum and 20.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 4.34 and median is 3.71.