Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Genetics/Diagnostics 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 Genetics/Diagnostics industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $17.3B, which is 71.4% of the total amount of money raised in the Genetics/Diagnostics industry in Early rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Genetics/Diagnostics 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 Maryland. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York and Boston which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from San Francisco and Menlo Park. 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 Banking. They also invest in Business Development, Software Engineering and Analytics.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1937 and the newest one in 2018. 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 and in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24 and in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 302. Average number of funding rounds is 105.0 while median is 65.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 179. Average amount of lead investments is 46.5 while median is 24.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 6. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -15.52 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.88 and the median is 0.13. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 8 – 9 or 6 – 7 investors more often than in rounds with 5 – 6 or 4 – 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common ranges are less than 100 thousands, 100 thousands – 1 million and 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.93 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.15 and median is 0.05. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.