Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Location Based Services 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 Location Based Services industry.

Amount of money raised in Location Based Services funding rounds is $205.0M, which is 1.5% 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 Location Based Services 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 12 funds. There are also funds from New York, Virginia and Florida. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York and San Francisco which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Palo Alto and Santa Monica. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and Panama with the majority investing in 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 Banking. They also invest in Business Development, Autonomous Vehicles and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1982 and the newest one in 2018. In 2016 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2008 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12, 13 – 24 or in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 122.2 while median is 33.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 14. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 48.2 while median is 7.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 6. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 2.67 and the median is 0.66. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 0.43.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors more often than in rounds with 2 – 3 or 6 – 7 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 1 – 5 million, 10 – 50 million and 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.84 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.23 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.