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

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence 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 5 years. They are actively investing in Artificial Intelligence industry.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $22.9B, which is 37.1% of the total amount of money raised in the Artificial Intelligence industry in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence industry over the recent years
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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 16 funds. There are also funds from New York, Massachusetts and Illinois. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from Palo Alto, Menlo Park and New York. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom and Panama. 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 Banking. They also invest in Enterprise Software, Autonomous Vehicles and Security.
  • Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2019. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2008 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12, 2 – 6, and 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 19, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 186.8 while median is 97.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 75.8 while median is 34.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 16. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -17.15 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 0.28 and the median is -0.28. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 5 – 6 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 – 5, 3 – 4 or 7 – 8 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common ranges are 5 – 10 million, 50 – 100 million and 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 8.56 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.78 and median is 0.3. The most common multiplicator value is 0.21.
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