Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in AR/VR/Computer Vision 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 2 years. They are actively investing in AR/VR/Computer Vision industry.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $162.5M, which is 6.6% of the total amount of money raised in the AR/VR/Computer Vision industry in North America over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in AR/VR/Computer Vision industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 17 funds. There are also funds from New York and Washington. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from Redwood City, Palo Alto and New York. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom, Panama, and China. 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 Enterprise Software, Transportation and Manufacturing.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2004 and the newest one in 2017. In 2017 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, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24, 7 – 12 or in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 6, the maximum is 247. Average number of funding rounds is 72.4 while median is 34.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 14. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 131. Average amount of lead investments is 25.4 while median is 10.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 12. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.38 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.36 and the median is -1.26. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4, 5 – 6 or 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands, 10 – 50 million or 100 thousands – 1 million more often than 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.31 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.36 and median is 0.26. The most common multiplicator value is 0.26.