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 IT Infrastructure industry. IT infrastructure refers to the software, hardware, network resources, and services associated with the management information technology environment. It includes technical support, data center, and IaaS.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $13.6B, which is 77.4% of the total amount of money raised in the IT Infrastructure industry in Early rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in IT Infrastructure 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. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 13 funds. There are also funds from New York, Massachusetts and Alaska. The most common city is New York which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Palo Alto and Menlo Park. 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 Medical Service, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2019. In 2012 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 2006 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2021 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 12, the maximum is 694. Average number of funding rounds is 228.4 while median is 116.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 226. Average amount of lead investments is 44.8 while median is 12.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 6.92 and the median is 9.82. 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 4 - 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 - 50 million. Less common range is 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 327000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 36966667.23 and median is 0.38. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.