Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Banking 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 Private Equity stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Banking industry.
Banking handles cash, credit, and other financial transactions. It includes lending and credit, banking institutions, debit cards, and transaction processing.

Amount of money raised in Private Equity funding rounds is $9.9B, which is 5.4% of the total amount of money raised in the Banking industry in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Banking 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 6 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Boston and Washington. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom and Canada. 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 Real Estate, Business Development and Transportation.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2014. In 1992 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 2006 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 2 – 6 and 2 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 737. Average number of funding rounds is 203.1 while median is 164.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 226. Average amount of lead investments is 56.8 while median is 30.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 3. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 17.46 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -6.69 and the median is -0.87. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs have 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 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 0.0 at minimum and 5627800000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 383293333.66 and median is 0.58. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.