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

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $147.8B, which is 28.0% of the total amount of money raised in North America over the last 2 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. VCs are spread equally among California, New York, and Massachusetts and they host 7 funds each. There are also funds from Maryland. The most common city is New York which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Boston and Mountain View. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom and Panama. 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 Business Development, Software Engineering and Analytics.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1935 and the newest one in 2016. In 1996 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2003 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24, 24 or in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 15, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 193.1 while median is 106.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 6 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 85.4 while median is 43.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 19. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 14.71 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -2.48 and the median is -1.33. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs have 6 – 7, 5 – 6 or 4 – 5 investors more often than 7 – 8 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common ranges are 100 thousands – 1 million, less than 100 thousands and 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.36 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.24 and median is 0.08. The most common multiplicator value is 0.02.