Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Autonomous Vehicles 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 Autonomous Vehicles industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $1.8B, which is 57.9% of the total amount of money raised in the Autonomous Vehicles industry in Seed rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Autonomous Vehicles 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 15 funds. There are also funds from New York, Texas and New Jersey. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and Menlo Park which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Palo Alto and New York. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, The United Kingdom, and Japan. For half 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1965 and the newest one in 2018. In 2004 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.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6, 24 or in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 7, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 171.4 while median is 80.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 68.5 while median is 18.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -35.0 and 28.07 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.3 and the median is 2.04. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors more often than in rounds with 2 – 3 or 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands, 5 – 10 million, 100 thousands – 1 million or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.43 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.22 and median is 0.26. The most common multiplicator value is 0.26.