Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Bio & Nano Technology 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 2 years. They are actively investing in Bio & Nano Technology industry.

Amount of money raised in Bio & Nano Technology funding rounds is $128.3B, which is 24.3% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in North America over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Bio & Nano Technology 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 8 funds. There are also funds from New York, Massachusetts and Maryland. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York, San Francisco and Boston which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Palo Alto. Top-1 investment geofocus for all VCs is 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 Banking. They also invest in Business Development, Software Engineering and Marketing.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1928 and the newest one in 2016. In 1996 the most amount of funds were founded. 2020 holds the most deals for 16 VCs. 2019, 2015 and 2013 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 and in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24 and in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 33, the maximum is 302. Average number of funding rounds is 102.5 while median is 68.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 5 and maximum is 179. Average amount of lead investments is 40.2 while median is 19.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 19. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -15.52 and 17.68 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.5 and the median is 3.38. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Early and Late stages are more common for funds in the sample. Private Equity and Post-Ipo stages are less common. Funds participate in rounds with 6 – 7 or 5 – 6 investors more often than in rounds with 7 – 8 or 9 – 10 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common ranges are 100 thousands – 1 million, 100-500 million and less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.93 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.23 and median is 0.07. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.