Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Human Resources 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 Human Resources industry.
Human Resources provide a range of workforce solutions for managing employee life cycle and administering employee benefits. It includes everything recruiting and retirement, employment, and skill assessment.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $14.5B, which is 31.8% of the total amount of money raised in the Human Resources industry in North America over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Human Resources 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 12 funds. There are also funds from New York and Massachusetts. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco, New York and Menlo Park which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Palo Alto. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and Japan 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 Finance. They also invest in Gamification, Enterprise Software and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2017. In 2009 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, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2012 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2013 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 24 and 13 – 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 22, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 379.5 while median is 355.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 102.0 while median is 101.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 27. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 25.94 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 2.27 and the median is 2.6. 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 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 – 50 million or 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.1 at minimum and 1186000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 189045614.53 and median is 1.24. The most common multiplicator value is 0.25.