Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Banking 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 5 years. They are actively investing in Banking industry.
Banking handles cash, credit, and other financial transactions. It includes lending and credit, banking institutions, debit cards, and transaction processing.

Amount of money raised in Banking funding rounds is $1.8B, which is 3.4% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Banking 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 Palo Alto and Menlo Park. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, Canada, and Japan. 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 E-Commerce Platforms, Gamification and Consumer.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1984 and the newest one in 2016. In 2010 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2010 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 24 and in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 13, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 373.0 while median is 182.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 229. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 66.6 while median is 20.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -12.33 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 11.79 and the median is 16.14. 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 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100 thousands – 1 million. Less common range is less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1186000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 59300000.23 and median is 0.18. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.