Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in IT Infrastructure 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 IT Infrastructure industry.

Amount of money raised in IT Infrastructure funding rounds is $12.4B, which is 2.4% 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 IT Infrastructure 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. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York and Menlo Park which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Palo Alto and Washington. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, India, and Canada. 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 Consumer, Social and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1859 and the newest one in 2017. In 1997 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2, 7 – 12 or in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 12, the maximum is 463. Average number of funding rounds is 105.6 while median is 66.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 15. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 226. Average amount of lead investments is 46.1 while median is 20.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 7. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -25.67 and 15.67 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -2.13 and the median is 0.73. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is 4.0.
• Typical Rounds – The most common investment stage for funds in the sample is Early stage. Late, Private Equity and Seed stages are less common. Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors more often than in rounds with 6 – 7 or 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common ranges are 100-500 million, 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 3.31 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.73 and median is 0.39. The most common multiplicator value is 0.25.