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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 Delivery industry. Delivery covers moving goods or packages to customers. Besides the delivery services themselves it includes packaging and courier services and shipping.

Amount of money raised in Delivery funding rounds is $6.8B, which is 1.5% 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 Delivery industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - All VCs are located in The United States. The majority of VCs are based in Silicon Valley. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 12 funds. There are also funds from New York, Massachusetts and Illinois. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York, Menlo Park and San Francisco which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Washington. Top-1 investment geofocus for all VCs is The United States. The country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide for all the funds.
  • Industry Focus - The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in Consumer, Enterprise Software and Business Development.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1974 and the newest one in 2018. In 2014 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2021. For some funds, 2014 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2006 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Funds equally often participate in 24 and 2 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 23, the maximum is 922. Average number of funding rounds is 299.0 while median is 154.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 83. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 228. Average amount of lead investments is 50.0 while median is 19.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 19. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -54.33 and 28.48 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.73 and the median is 9.46. It means that these funds act as lead investors more 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 close to zero at minimum and 15.35 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 3.77 and median is 2.08. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.