Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Open Source 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 4 years. They are actively investing in Open Source industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $5.4B, which is 63.4% of the total amount of money raised in the Open Source industry over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Open Source 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 12 funds. There are also funds from New York, Illinois and Colorado. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York, San Francisco and Menlo Park which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from San Mateo. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama and China. 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, Telecommunications and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1986 and the newest one in 2012. In 2009 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 and in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24 and in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 6, the maximum is 347. Average number of funding rounds is 129.1 while median is 76.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 4 and maximum is 205. Average amount of lead investments is 62.8 while median is 25.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 18. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -54.33 and 19.62 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -9.14 and the median is -5.15. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Late and Early stages are more common for funds in the sample. Seed and Private Equity stages are less common. Funding rounds with these VCs have 3 – 4, 4 – 5 or 5 – 6 investors more often than 6 – 7 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 0.09 at minimum and 1.39 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.57 and median is 0.41. The most common multiplicator value is 0.41.