Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Retail 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 Retail industry.
Retail is how producers of goods and services get their products to the consumer. It includes online and offline retail, shopping and vending, and retail technology.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $14.2B, which is 53.5% of the total amount of money raised in the Retail industry in Early rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Retail industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in The United States while others are in Canada. There is an equal amount of VCs in Palo Alto, New York and San Francisco which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Menlo Park. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Israel, China, and Brazil. 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, Business Development and Social.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1961 and the newest one in 2019. In 1988 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2020. 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, 2016 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12 and 2 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5, the maximum is 880. Average number of funding rounds is 248.1 while median is 135.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 215. Average amount of lead investments is 57.0 while median is 26.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 27.7 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -2.77 and the median is 2.55. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common range is 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.09 at minimum and 574366666.67 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 129093333.66 and median is 0.53. The most common multiplicator value is 0.41.