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 Information Services industry.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $474.4M, which is 1.7% of the total amount of money raised in the Information Services industry in North America over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Information Services industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The majority of VCs are located in The United States while others are in Canada. The most common city is New York which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Palo Alto and Washington. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, Japan, and Germany. 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 Business Development, Telecommunications and Autonomous Vehicles.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1961 and the newest one in 2019. In 2005 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, 13 - 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 6, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 129.1 while median is 40.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 7. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 44.4 while median is 14.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -35.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.67 and the median is 3.73. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds usually participate in rounds with 4 - 5 investors, less often in rounds with 3 - 4 or 2 - 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands, 100 thousands - 1 million or 10 - 50 million more often than 1 - 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.24 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.23 and median is 0.15. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.