Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Energy 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 Energy industry.
Energy sector is about production, management, and distribution of energy. It includes utilities, power grid, and nuclear and clean energy.

Amount of money raised in Late funding rounds is $12.5B, which is 23.0% of the total amount of money raised in the Energy industry in North America over the last 4 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. Half of VCs are based in Silicon Valley. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 10 funds. There are also funds from New York, Texas and Missouri. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco, New York and Menlo Park which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from Houston. Top-1 investment geofocus for all VCs is 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 Industrial, Business Development and Transportation.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1947 and the newest one in 2017. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2007 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10, the maximum is 1394. Average number of funding rounds is 297.1 while median is 96.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 29. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 58.0 while median is 14.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 3. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -26.56 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.08 and the median is 0.89. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 5 – 6 or 4 – 5 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is more than 1 billion. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 20.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 3.81 and median is 1.82. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.