Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Agriculture 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 over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Agriculture industry.
Agriculture covers everything that is grown for human use. It includes farming and cultivation, hydroponics and agtech, and forestry.

Amount of money raised in Agriculture funding rounds is $26.3B, which is 0.8% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Agriculture 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. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Canada, The United Kingdom, and India. 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 Medical Service, Agriculture and Bio & Nano Technology.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1937 and the newest one in 2018. In 1996 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2004 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2010 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 14, the maximum is 831. Average number of funding rounds is 133.8 while median is 63.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 55. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 138. Average amount of lead investments is 31.0 while median is 15.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 27.61 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 2.19 and the median is 3.33. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 7.57.
• Typical Rounds – Early and Late stages are more common for funds in the sample. Private Equity and Debt stages are less common. Funding rounds with these VCs have 5 – 6 or 6 – 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands and 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 848950000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 75647500.29 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.