Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Security 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 5 years. They are actively investing in Security industry. Security provides manned and technical services and products for the protection of people, premises or property. It includes penetration testing and intrusion detection, cloud and cyber security, and homeland security, as well as privacy, biometrics, and fraud detection.

Amount of money raised in Security funding rounds is $60.1B, which is 5.2% of the total amount of money raised in Late rounds in North America over the last 5 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography - All VCs are located in The United States. Top VCs are based in California and New York with the majority being in California. The most common city is New York which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Menlo Park, Palo Alto and San Francisco. 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, Enterprise Software and Gamification.
• Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2014. In 2000 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, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2000 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 - 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 - 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 25, the maximum is 831. Average number of funding rounds is 251.0 while median is 178.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 8 and maximum is 226. Average amount of lead investments is 67.0 while median is 52.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 138. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -47.0 and 18.76 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -4.63 and the median is 1.25. 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 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 50 - 100 million. Less common range is 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.24 at minimum and 848950000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 195822500.46 and median is 1.38. The most common multiplicator value is 0.34.