Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Telecommunications 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 5 years. They are actively investing in Telecommunications industry.
Telecommunications is about making communication possible. It includes providing cable and internet services, voice and video chatting, internet and communication software and hardware, as well as wireless technologies and NFC.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $6.1B, which is 67.3% of the total amount of money raised in the Telecommunications industry in Seed rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Telecommunications 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 13 funds. There are also funds from New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from New York, Palo Alto 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, E-Commerce Platforms and Consumer.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2000 and the newest one in 2016. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2012 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2013 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2014 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 59, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 367.0 while median is 213.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 68.5 while median is 15.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -5.07 and 28.58 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 15.69 and the median is 20.46. 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 thousands – 1 million or less than 100 thousands. 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 89300000.16 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.21.