Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Social 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 Social industry.
Social is about solving cultural and social issues. It includes public safety, government, politics, religion, and LGBT.

Amount of money raised in Social funding rounds is $2.6B, which is 1.1% of the total amount of money raised in Private Equity rounds in North America over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Social 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 San Francisco which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from New York, Austin and Seattle. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Kenya 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 Business Development, Banking and Social.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1978 and the newest one in 2018. In 1984 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, 2020 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 880. Average number of funding rounds is 170.4 while median is 53.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 215. Average amount of lead investments is 43.9 while median is 21.5. 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 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -9.7 and the median is -3.86. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 872000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 127581666.96 and median is 0.29. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.