Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Social 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 2 years. They are actively investing in Social industry.
Social is about solving cultural and social issues. It includes public safety, government, politics, religion, and LGBT.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $12.6B, which is 79.3% of the total amount of money raised in the Social industry in Early rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Social 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, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York and San Francisco which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Menlo Park and Mountain View. 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 Entertainment, Enterprise Software and Mobile/Apps.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1989 and the newest one in 2020. In 2009 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2006 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2013 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 33, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 350.6 while median is 298.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 79.3 while median is 38.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 138. 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 5.07 and the median is 4.03. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 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 0.0 at minimum and 1186000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 185582000.29 and median is 0.57. The most common multiplicator value is 0.26.