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The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Western Europe that have invested in Early stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Human Resources industry. Human Resources provide a range of workforce solutions for managing employee life cycle and administering employee benefits. It includes everything recruiting and retirement, employment, and skill assessment.

Amount of funding rounds in Human Resources is 275, which is 4.0% of the total amount of Early rounds in Western Europe over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Human Resources industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - There are a couple of leading countries in the result. They are The United Kingdom, France and Germany. They host 6 VCs each. There is an equal amount of VCs in Paris and London which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Berlin and Munich. VCs in the sample invest in Germany, France and The United States more often than they do in The United Kingdom. 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 Autonomous Vehicles, E-Commerce Platforms and Real Estate.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1969 and the newest one in 2016. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2011 to 2020. For some funds, 2017 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2010 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2015 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 7 - 12 and in 13 - 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 22, the maximum is 593. Average number of funding rounds is 195.6 while median is 126.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 112. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 3 and maximum is 167. Average amount of lead investments is 60.3 while median is 43.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 22. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -39.75 and 15.36 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -5.86 and the median is -5.2. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds participate in rounds with 3 - 4 or 4 - 5 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 5 - 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 632000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 38600000.11 and median is 0.1. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.