Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Security 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 4 years. They are actively investing in Security industry.

Amount of money raised in Security funding rounds is $1.5B, which is 6.0% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in North America over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Security 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 15 funds. There are also funds from New York, Massachusetts and Illinois. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and Palo Alto which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Santa Monica and New York. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom, 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 Banking. They also invest in Information Technology, Gamification and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1988 and the newest one in 2016. In 2005 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 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 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 154.9 while median is 74.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 15. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 3 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 63.0 while median is 21.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 3. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -27.25 and 23.44 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -0.99 and the median is 0.56. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 – 5, 2 – 3 or 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 1 – 5 million, 100 thousands – 1 million or less than 100 thousands more often than 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.76 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.18 and median is 0.12. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.