Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Nanotechnology 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 Nanotechnology industry. Nanotechnology is the use of matter on a molecular and atomic scale for industrial purposes, often for developing and manufacturing advanced materials.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $6.9B, which is 71.9% of the total amount of money raised in the Nanotechnology industry in Late rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Nanotechnology 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. Half of VCs are based in Silicon Valley. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Menlo Park which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Toronto. 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 Business Development, Social and Real Estate.
• Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1911 and the newest one in 2016. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2011 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2020 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 - 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 9, the maximum is 1053. Average number of funding rounds is 269.8 while median is 204.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 46.2 while median is 29.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -17.77 and 26.3 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.9 and the median is 5.92. 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 10 - 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 12.05 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 4.12 and median is 3.6. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.