Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Business Development 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 2 years. They are actively investing in Business Development industry.
Business Development is all about helping a business to grow. It includes consulting, business processes outsourcing, subscription services, and so on.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $24.6B, which is 57.9% of the total amount of money raised in the Business Development industry in Late rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Business Development 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, Massachusetts and Illinois. There is an equal amount of VCs in Menlo Park and New York which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from San Francisco and Palo Alto. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and Panama 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 Finance. They also invest in Business Development, Enterprise Software and Medical Service.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1983 and the newest one in 2014. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2012 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2013 was the peak for successful exits. 2020, 2019, and 2016 are the runner ups.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 and in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 16, the maximum is 844. Average number of funding rounds is 236.2 while median is 91.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 234. Average amount of lead investments is 63.7 while median is 28.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 8. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -48.27 and 27.28 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -6.97 and the median is -5.62. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 50 – 100 million and 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.2 at minimum and 600000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 89600001.05 and median is 1.3.