Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Electronics 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 Electronics industry.
Electronics is about manufacturing, design and development, assembly, and servicing of electronic equipment and components. It includes hardware, semiconductor, and b2c electronics (mobile devices, household appliances, sensors etc.).

Amount of money raised in Electronics funding rounds is $71.7B, which is 4.3% 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 Electronics 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. Half of VCs are based in Silicon Valley. The most common city is New York which is home to 5 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Palo Alto and Menlo Park. 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 Finance. They also invest in Business Development, Social and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2019. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2004 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2020 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 1304. Average number of funding rounds is 438.1 while median is 236.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 80.7 while median is 37.5. 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 4.4 and the median is 7.83. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Late and Early stages are more common for funds in the sample. Private Equity and Seed stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 7 – 8 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is more than 1 billion. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.08 at minimum and 11.1 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 3.98 and median is 3.68.