Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Security 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 Security industry.
Security provides manned and technical services and products for the protection of people, premises or property. It includes penetration testing and intrusion detection, cloud and cyber security, and homeland security, as well as privacy, biometrics, and fraud detection.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $22.2B, which is 72.3% of the total amount of money raised in the Security industry in Early rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Security 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 13 funds. There are also funds from New York, Massachusetts and Illinois. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and New York which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Menlo Park and Palo Alto. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Japan and Israel. 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, Medical Service and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2015. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 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 2020 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 24 and 7 – 12 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 14, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 379.3 while median is 344.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 85.0 while median is 44.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 11. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -17.77 and 16.75 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.28 and the median is 4.45. 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 50 – 100 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 225847500.29 and median is 1.21.