Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Information Services 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 Information Services industry.
Information services create, manage, and deliver information. It includes cloud computing, systems and information management, and IT consulting and outsourcing.

Amount of money raised in Information Services funding rounds is $22.3B, which is 8.7% of the total amount of money raised in Private Equity rounds in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Information Services 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 3 funds. There are also funds from Toronto, San Francisco and Washington. 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 Finance. They also invest in Business Development, Social and Real Estate.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1852 and the newest one in 2019. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2020 was the peak for successful exits. 2019, 2018, and 2016 are the runner ups.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 422. Average number of funding rounds is 99.4 while median is 63.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 19. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 112. Average amount of lead investments is 28.3 while median is 16.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 11. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -61.0 and 21.31 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -6.89 and the median is -5.85. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs have 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands and 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 601000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 113500000.68 and median is 0.29. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.