Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Transportation 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 Transportation industry.
Transportation is about moving people and goods. It includes all modes of transportation, electric and autonomous vehicles, and transportation infrastructure, as well as space travel.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $3.2B, which is 1.8% of the total amount of money raised in the Transportation industry in North America over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Transportation 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 14 funds. There are also funds from New York, Texas and New Hampshire. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from New York, Mountain View and Spring. 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 Finance. They also invest in Transportation, Gamification and Security.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2017. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2012 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2020 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 2 and 7 – 12 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 20, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 298.8 while median is 214.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 57. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 53.8 while median is 15.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 3. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -8.0 and 28.58 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 13.27 and the median is 14.61. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands and 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 333500000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 16675000.18 and median is 0.16. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.