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

Amount of money raised in Manufacturing funding rounds is $5.6B, which is 2.2% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in North America over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Manufacturing 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, Illinois and Texas. There is an equal amount of VCs in Palo Alto and Menlo Park which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from San Francisco and New York. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, Japan, and China. 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 Enterprise Software, Business Development and Autonomous Vehicles.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1987 and the newest one in 2018. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24, 7 – 12 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 164.0 while median is 60.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 74.4 while median is 23.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 0.36 and the median is -0.6. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4, 5 – 6 or 7 – 8 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands, 50 – 100 million or 10 – 50 million more often than 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 4.33 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.57 and median is 0.19. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.