Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds 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 3 years.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $738.5B, which is 53.8% of the total amount of money raised over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of funding rounds 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. The most common city is New York which is home to 10 funds. There are also funds from Boston, Toronto and Santa Monica. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and Japan with the majority investing in 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, Real Estate and Social.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2011. In 2000 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 7 – 12, 13 – 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 29, the maximum is 463. Average number of funding rounds is 153.0 while median is 111.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 13 and maximum is 226. Average amount of lead investments is 73.2 while median is 49.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 20. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.47 and 10.2 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -10.44 and the median is -9.33. 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. Private Equity and Debt stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 6 – 7, 2 – 3 or 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million or 10 – 50 million, more often than 50 – 100 million or 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.01 at minimum and 1.36 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.37 and median is 0.24. The most common multiplicator value is 0.01.