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 in Late stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Artificial Intelligence industry.

Amount of money raised in Late funding rounds is $25.5B, which is 44.7% of the total amount of money raised in the Artificial Intelligence industry in North America over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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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 6 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Palo Alto and Menlo Park. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and The United Kingdom 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, Social and Gamification.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2019. 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 7 - 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 - 6, 24 or in 13 - 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 463. Average number of funding rounds is 134.6 while median is 99.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 226. Average amount of lead investments is 56.8 while median is 30.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -25.67 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 2.77 and the median is 3.9. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 5 - 6 investors. Less often in rounds with 7 - 8, 4 - 5 or 3 - 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 - 50 million. Less common ranges are 100-500 million, 5 - 10 million and less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 2.11 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.42 and median is 0.26. The most common multiplicator value is 0.01.