Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Bio & Nano Technology 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 4 years. They are actively investing in Bio & Nano Technology industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $80.9B, which is 71.9% of the total amount of money raised in the Bio & Nano Technology industry in Early rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Bio & Nano Technology industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 8 funds. There are also funds from Massachusetts, New York and Washington. The most common city is New York which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Boston and Palo Alto. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and The United Kingdom 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 Banking. They also invest in Software Engineering, Business Development and Analytics.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1980 and the newest one in 2016. In 1996 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2003 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6, 13 – 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 37, the maximum is 302. Average number of funding rounds is 112.0 while median is 84.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 5 and maximum is 179. Average amount of lead investments is 46.4 while median is 32.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 19. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -15.52 and 17.68 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.06 and the median is 3.38. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 5 – 6 investors. Less often in rounds with 6 – 7, 4 – 5 or 9 – 10 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100 thousands – 1 million or 10 – 50 million, more often than less than 100 thousands or 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.43 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.1 and median is 0.04. The most common multiplicator value is 0.02.