Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Civil Engineering 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 3 years. They are actively investing in Civil Engineering industry.
Civil Engineering deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the built environment. It includes architecture and construction, green and smart buildings and cities, and home renovation.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $1.4B, which is 3.3% of the total amount of money raised in the Civil Engineering industry in North America over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Civil Engineering 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 majority of VCs are based in Silicon Valley. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 9 funds. There are also funds from New York, Toronto and Salt Lake City. Top-1 investment geofocus for all VCs is 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Enterprise Software and Transportation.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1986 and the newest one in 2019. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2012 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2010 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 39, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 287.4 while median is 178.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 143. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 503. Average amount of lead investments is 43.8 while median is 13.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -3.39 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 14.35 and the median is 18.08. 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. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million and 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 13.8 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 3.49 and median is 2.68. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.