Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Autonomous Vehicles 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 in Late stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Autonomous Vehicles industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $25.6B, which is 50.3% of the total amount of money raised in the Autonomous Vehicles industry in Late rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Autonomous Vehicles 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 14 funds. There are also funds from New York, Washington and Massachusetts. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco, Menlo Park and New York which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Palo Alto. 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 Gamification, Enterprise Software and Business Development.
• Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2019. In 1996 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 13 - 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 - 12, 2 - 6 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 21, the maximum is 463. Average number of funding rounds is 173.2 while median is 166.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 48. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 6 and maximum is 226. Average amount of lead investments is 83.9 while median is 49.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 45. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -35.29 and 18.47 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -5.48 and the median is -11.29. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 - 5, 5 - 6 or 9 - 10 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 - 50 million. Less common ranges are 50 - 100 million, 5 - 10 million and 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.01 at minimum and 8.56 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.98 and median is 0.32.