Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Legal 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 Legal industry.
Legal deals with law and provides law-related services. It includes compliance, blockchain, intellectual property, e-signature, and legal tech.

Amount of money raised in Legal funding rounds is $891.9M, which is 3.6% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in North America over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Legal 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 11 funds. There are also funds from New York, Massachusetts and Texas. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from New York, Menlo Park and Cambridge. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama 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 Gamification, Medical Service and Legal.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1997 and the newest one in 2018. In 2009 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2010 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12 and 2 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 202.2 while median is 161.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 229. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 36.4 while median is 6.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -23.94 and 28.13 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 13.82 and the median is 18.83. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 5 – 6 investors VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 million. 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 59300000.17 and median is 0.12. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.