Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Software Engineering 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 Software Engineering industry.
Software engineering is application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software. it includes software development applications, web development, and quantum computing, as well as quality assurance, iOS, and Android.

Amount of money raised in Late funding rounds is $57.6B, which is 47.4% of the total amount of money raised in the Software Engineering industry in North America over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Software Engineering 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 5 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Menlo Park and Seattle. 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, Gamification and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2018. In 2011 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 2006 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2013 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12 and 13 – 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 281.3 while median is 151.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 73.4 while median is 33.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 9. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -39.75 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 0.47 and the median is 3.77. It means that these funds act as lead investors more 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 100-500 million. Less common range is 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1186000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 194500000.85 and median is 1.46.