Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Agriculture 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 Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Agriculture industry.
Agriculture covers everything that is grown for human use. It includes farming and cultivation, hydroponics and agtech, and forestry.

Amount of money raised in Agriculture funding rounds is $909.2M, which is 2.0% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in North America over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Agriculture 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 St Louis and Palo Alto. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and Panama 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 Agriculture, Consumer and Mobile/Apps.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1996 and the newest one in 2018. In 2012 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 2 and 7 – 12 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 14, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 293.4 while median is 69.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 55. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 61.6 while median is 7.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -23.94 and 28.13 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 12.85 and the median is 13.78. 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 3 – 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 600000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 57500000.16 and median is 0.17. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.