Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Gamification 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 4 years. They are actively investing in Gamification industry.

Amount of money raised in Private Equity funding rounds is $8.7B, which is 5.9% of the total amount of money raised in the Gamification industry in North America over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Gamification 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. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and New York which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Menlo Park and Toronto. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and Canada with the majority investing in 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 Business Development, Real Estate and Social.
• Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1852 and the newest one in 2014. In 1999 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.
• Investments - Funds equally often participate in 2 - 6, 2, and 7 - 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 - 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 463. Average number of funding rounds is 104.7 while median is 67.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 12. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 226. Average amount of lead investments is 48.8 while median is 31.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -61.0 and 10.2 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -18.74 and the median is -17.05. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 2 - 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 1 - 2, 3 - 4 or 4 - 5 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million, 50 - 100 million or less than 100 thousands more often than 10 - 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 3.17 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.46 and median is 0.24. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.