Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Information Services 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 Information Services industry.
Information services create, manage, and deliver information. It includes cloud computing, systems and information management, and IT consulting and outsourcing.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $26.1B, which is 17.8% of the total amount of money raised in the Information Services industry in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Information Services 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 16 funds. There are also funds from Massachusetts, Washington and New York. There is an equal amount of VCs in Menlo Park and San Francisco which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Palo Alto and Boston. 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 Enterprise Software, Business Development and Information Services.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1961 and the newest one in 2019. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2008 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 2019 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 18, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 428.2 while median is 395.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 96.4 while median is 94.0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -12.27 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 5.7 and the median is 3.42. 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. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 50 – 100 million and 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1186000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 271900833.6 and median is 1.61. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.