Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Manufacturing 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 Manufacturing industry.

Amount of money raised in Manufacturing funding rounds is $3.6B, which is 2.1% of the total amount of money raised in Late rounds in North America over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Manufacturing industry 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 3 funds. There are also funds from Palo Alto, Menlo Park and 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 Banking. They also invest in Manufacturing, Business Development and Social.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1937 and the newest one in 2016. In 1988 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 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 or in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 232. Average number of funding rounds is 77.6 while median is 50.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 29. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 124. Average amount of lead investments is 31.6 while median is 19.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 20. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -24.82 and 15.36 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -1.0 and the median is -0.21. 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 5 – 6, 3 – 4 or 7 – 8 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million, 10 – 50 million or less than 100 thousands more often than 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.18 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.35 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.